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Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance on Collaborate Ultra overnight tonight. The emergency maintenance window begins at 0000 on Wednesday 22 December and finishes at 0400 GMT. See details for other time zones. There will be intermittent availability of Collaborate during the maintenance window. You can read more details and subscribe to updates on the Blackboard Continue Reading…

Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance for Collaborate on the morning of 8 April 2021. The maintenance window will begin at 0700 BST, and will end at 1100 BST. See details for other timezones. Should any problems occur, these should be confined to brief connectivity issues. Should any users be disconnected during a session, they will Continue Reading…

From today, Collaborate will automatically disconnect all users after the session has been open for twelve hours. Blackboard now assumes that those people in the session are there unintentionally. If they need to reconnect, they can do so. Those in the session will be warned that it is about to end: They will then be Continue Reading…

Blackboard have advised us there will be scheduled maintenance taking place for Blackboard Collaborate between 0700 – 1100 on Thursday 11th March (see details for other timezones). Please note that this relates to Collaborate only and no other parts of Blackboard are involved. Blackboard advise that users may experience intermittent availability during the maintenance window Continue Reading…

Previously announced for release last week, the ability to have 1,000 attendees in a large session has been postponed. Blackboard say there are performance concerns in particular use cases which need to be adressed, and that the feature will be released as soon as they can. More information is available on the Collaborate Release Notes.

Collaborate will be upgraded to v20.22 on 10 December 2020, featuring improvements to two areas. Large sessions/webinar mode Currently, enabling webinar mode allows you to have 500 individuals in a session. After the upgrade, this will increase to 1,000 people. Limitations will still apply: Webinar sessions can’t be longer than 24 hours in length Guests Continue Reading…

Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance for Collaborate Ultra on the morning of 8 October 2020. The maintenance window will begin at 0700 BST, and will end at 1100 BST. Should any problems occur, these should be confined to brief connectivity issues. Should any users be disconnected during a session, they will get automatically reconnected. See Continue Reading…

After 6 August 10 September, any Collaborate sessions created will have public access to recordings switched off by default. A new option will be available when creating a session, Allow public access.  If this is not ticked, only those enrolled in the Blackboard course the session was created in will have access to the recording. Continue Reading…

Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance for Collaborate Ultra on the morning of 23 July 2020. This maintenance was originally scheduled for 9 July 2020. The maintenance window will begin at 0700 BST, and will end at 1100 BST. During these times, there will be intermittent availability of the Collaborate scheduler, sessions and recordings. See details Continue Reading…

This has been rescheduled, and will now happen on 23 July 2020. Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance for Collaborate Ultra on the morning of 9 July 2020. The maintenance window will begin at 0700 BST, and will end at 1100 BST. During these times, there will be intermittent availability of the Collaborate scheduler, sessions and Continue Reading…