Adam MasseyPreviously 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 v20.22
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…
Collaborate Maintenance: 8 October 2020
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…
Collaborate Original is no longer available
As announced in January, Blackboard Collaborate is no longer available. Collaborate Original sessions look like this: Attempts to launch any existing sessions or course rooms hosted in Original will result in an error Collaborate Ultra will not be affected by the shutdown of Collaborate Original. Recordings of previous sessions If you have any you want Continue Reading…
Changes to recording link behaviours
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…
Collaborate Maintenance: 23 July 2020
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…
Rescheduled – Collaborate Maintenance: 9 July 2020
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…
Collaborate Maintenance: 9 April 2020
Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance for Collaborate Ultra on the morning of 9 April 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 for other timezones Updated 6 April 2020. Since this post Continue Reading…
Telephony options have been switched off
Aston’s Collaborate is hosted in Canada. To avoid any confusion over international dialling charges, we’ve disabled telephony. You will need to use your computer’s speakers and microphone to participate in Collaborate sessions. 📷 by Antoine Barrès on Unsplash
Unplanned maintenance: 28 March 2020
Blackboard will perform unplanned infrastructure maintenance for Collaborate Ultra tomorrow morning. Work originally planned for this morning will now take place tomorrow. It will start at 0500 GMT, and will end at 0900 GMT. During these times, there will be intermittent availability of Collaborate Ultra. See details for other timezones