What is it?

Blackboard Collaborate is a way to have "anytime web conferencing" with your students.

Besides just video conferencing, you can use this tool for the following:

Share your computer screen
Draw on the screen you are sharing
Share Files with your class
set up a student study group
record a teaching session for viewing at a later date
Synchronous Online Course - Set up a virtual class and teach live through long distance through this tool

More information:

https://www.blackboard.com/online-collaborative-learning/blackboard-collaborate.html

Live stream a teaching session and have your students join in. You have the option to save the stream as a recording so you can put it right in your course if you want.

How to use it

To add this to your course:

Click Create Learning Activity

Find the purple icon named Collaborate and add it to your course:

Chromebook Support

Blackboard Collaborate doesn't work well with Chromebooks since you have to download the video - something about it requires Java to work which doesn't work with Chromebooks. There doesn't seem like there is much we can do about this. You may have to find an alternative if you rely heavily on Chromebook usage for students.

-To do:

-Allow Guests / Guest presenter

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