A walk through presentation of Blackboard Collaborate including how to record sessions and where to find them after they are recorded.

1. ENHANCING INSTRUCTION
VIA BLACKBOARD
COLLABORATE

2. WHAT IS BLACKBOARD COLLABORATE
• A virtual session where participants can communicate with audio, video, and
text chat.
• Use a virtual whiteboard to brainstorm, present a lecture, complete formulas
and calculations, etc.
• Record collaborate sessions for later playback or review
• Share applications/files
• Ask questions via polling
• Create breakout groups for groups of learners to collaborate together
• Play multimedia/move through the web

3. OVERVIEW OF BLACKBOARD COLLABORATE
FOR MODERATORS
• Technical requirements
Blackboard Course shell
Chrome (preferred) or Firefox, Windows Explorer not compatible
• Accessing BB Collaborate
Visit your Blackboard Course
Scroll to Tools
Click on Blackboard Collaborate Link
Enter Room

4. INVITING LEARNERS TO BLACKBOARD
COLLABORATE
• Create a Link in your course to the Collaborate Session (learners will not be
able to view Collaborate within Blackboard unless a link is made-- course
tools is not available to students)
• Go to Tools/Blackboard Collaborate
• Click on “Add Link to Course” underneath the Blackboard collaborate room
• Select the destination area where you would like the Collaborate area to be
available to learners
• Invite Learners to the session: by email, by course announcement, or both.
• Click on “Invite Guests”

5. USER INTERFACE (SESSION MENU)
• Session Menu located in the top left corner
• Click on tab and the panel appears
• Controls technical aspects of the session
• Includes setting such as session record, use phone as audio,
report issues, help topic, or learn more about Collaborate
• Microphone/video are automatically set to off, you must click
on the camera and audio icon on the bottom of the screen.

6. USER INTERFACE (COLLABORATE PANEL)
• Collaborate Panel located in bottom right corner—All
interactions with other participants here.
• Click on tab and the panel appears
• Includes chat capabilities
• Lists attendees
• Share content button
• Personal Settings (audio and video, notification settings,
sessions settings)

7. CONTENT SHARING
• You can share whiteboard, an application/screen, file
• Preferred option is sharing the screen (stop sharing the screen with
the button in the top right corner). Sharing applications can
tax/slow down the system.
• Also the opportunity to conduct a poll through Collaborate

8. RECORDING THE SESSION
• Open the Session Menu
• Click on Record Session
• When finished, click “Stop Recording”
• A recorded video of the session will appear underneath your Collaborate
session tab.
• You can download the recording and save to your computer
• Click on the recording, which will then open in Blackboard
• Open the session menu and save to computer or drive
• File can then be uploaded to streaming service (such as YouTube)
• Saving session recordings in Blackboard can eat space and impact your
Blackboard shell- not recommended to save multiple recorded session

9. SHARING VIDEO/AUDIO
• You can use the camera and mic built into your laptop, or use
an external mic or camera.

10. END COLLABORATE SESSION
• Open the Session Menu and click on “end session” button at the
bottom of the panel

11. COLLABORATE RECORDINGS
• Recordings can be accessed in the session screen. Download files
and save to your computer. Strongly recommend you upload these
files to YouTube so they are easy to stream and they don’t use up
all your shell data (2G limit)