Adam MasseyBlackboard will perform scheduled maintenance on Collaborate Ultra on the morning of 10 June 2021. The maintenance window will begin at 0700 and end at 1100 BST (See details for other time zones). Should any problems occur, these should be confined to brief connectivity issues. Should any users be disconnected during a session, they will Continue Reading…
Collaborate Maintenance: 13 May 2021
Blackboard will perform scheduled maintenance for Collaborate Ultra on the morning of 13 May 2021. The maintenance window will begin at 0700 and 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 get Continue Reading…
Blackboard Collaborate v21.06
Blackboard Collaborate v21.06 will be available after the maintenance window on 8 April 2021. Featuring: Gallery View Read more on Blackboard’s help site. User experience improvements Easier whiteboard editing The clear whiteboard icon is now a rubbish bin to more clearly warn what it does. The Remove Attendee option has been relocated Read more on Continue Reading…
Collaborate Maintenance: 8 April 2021
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…
Automatic disconnection after twelve hours
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 Collaborate: Maintenance notice
tlc_adminBlackboard 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…
Postponed: Large sessions support for 1000 attendees
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 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…