Neil CocklinThe vast majority of people give access to Collaborate sessions via the Collaborate Scheduler in Blackboard. There is nothing wrong with this and actually there are a number of advantages to do it this way. Once a session has been scheduled the link automatically appears in the schedule no further work is required to give Continue Reading…
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Did you know? – Breakout Rooms
Breakout Rooms could be thought of as a mini Collaborate session inside your Collaborate session. They have most of the features of the main room, such as audio, video, whiteboard and application sharing. They can be used for many things such as large class activities, group work or private meetings. Public rooms can be created Continue Reading…
What to do about session attendance monitoring?
The last months have not been Collaborates finest hour in relation to session attendance reporting. Collaborate giveth and Collaborate taketh away… Over the summer we updated the building block which amongst other things brought with it the ability to view a list of students that attended a session via the Blackboard interface. No longer did Continue Reading…
Collaborate Blackboard Building Block Upgrades
On July 5th 2014 Blackboard will be updated to the April 2014 Release. This means we also have to update the Collaborate Building block which brings in much greater flexibility to the way in which sessions can be scheduled and accessed. There are a number of changes that are important to highlight. The Collaborate Launcher Continue Reading…
PDF help guides now displayed in pages
Much of the help content provided by Blackboard Collaborate that is available from this site is in pdf format. Previously when navigating to a page that contained this content you would have to click a link to download the pdf and wait for it to open in your plug-in or viewer of choice. We have Continue Reading…