BB Collaborate is the online class space you can use for lectures, office hours, and meeting with students. It provides a variety of features such as breakout rooms, recording of lectures, attendance reporting, chat, hand-up and reaction participation, screensharing and quizzing. Collaborate with the Ultra experience opens right in your browser, so you don't have to install any software to join a session.
Visit their support site here:
https://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/UltraHow to set up Collaborate:
https://web.microsoftstream.com/channel/5ca0724...Recording using Collaborate: help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/v12/Moderator/Conduct_a_Session/Recordings
This article covers how to add a Collaborate online classroom to your Moodle course and some of the best-practice settings.
This article covers how to add the space to your course using the CDE template.
One way to hold virtual office hours is to use the Collaborate tool. You can use your Collaborate link for dedicated office hours for one class or for so-called mixed office hours for multiple courses.
Describes an issue with the Online Classroom link where the link does not open the Collaborate lobby instead opening a new Moodle page with "open in new window link".
This article covers the best practices to use when setting up your Collaborate Online Classroom link in Moodle.
Describes how to access the attendance report for Collaborate sessions.
A large PowerPoint file may be difficult to upload to Collaborate. The best way to reduce the size of a PPT file for Collaborate is to open the file in the online version of PowerPoint and download as a PDF.