Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is Blackboards’ video conferencing solution / webinar tool. Take a look at our resource on What is A webinar?
Collaborate Ultra is web conferencing software specifically aimed at education. It enables lecturers to deliver a lesson online to students in remote locations in much the same was as they would in live classroom. Students can take part in the lesion from a PC, laptop or mobile device. Collaborate Ultra also has the ability to record a session for students to review later.
Collaborate Ultra will work with the most up to date versions of Edge, Safari, and Firefox, but for the best experience use Google Chrome. It no longer works in Internet Explorer or the old version Edge. It is also available for mobile devices. For more info about using Collaborate on a mobile device go to the Collaborate Ultra Mobile help page
Here are some short videos on using Collaborate.
For further information click to open the links below:
- Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Getting Started
- Scheduling Sessions
- Collaborate application Features
- Tips and techniques on how to run a successful webinar
- Collaborate for Assessment and Group Work
- Recording a Session Collaborate Session
- Collaborate Accessibility and Inclusive Practice
- Collaborate Session Reports
- Collaborate Security Best Practice
- Collaborate Troubleshooting for Staff
Full Index of the content of each page
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Getting Started
- Scheduling a room
- Session Settings
- Locking the course room
- Create Guest links to Rooms
- Adding a Room link to the content area
- Adding a menu link to the Collaborate
- How to teach one Collaborate session across two modules
- How to add materials to a pre-arranged session in advance
- Using Collaborate with External
Collaborate application Features
- Using Collaborate Ultra
- Chat
- Participants Panel
- Whiteboard
- Application sharing
- Share Camera
- Share Files
- Polling
- Breakout Groups
- Session Menu
- How to Play a Video in Collaborate
Tips and techniques on how to run a successful webinar
Collaborate for Assessment and Group Work
- Making students presenter so they can share their screen
- Using Collaborate in Blackboard Groups
- How to give students an online space to do group work or group presentations
Recording a Collaborate Session
- Making a Recording
- Accessing a recording
- Giving Students access to the Collaborate recording
- Sharing a Collaborate Recording
- Adding a recording to Study Materials
- How to share with an external
- How to move a recording to Panopto
Collaborate Accessibility and Inclusive Practice
Collaborate Security Best Practice
Collaborate Troubleshooting for Staff
- Logging in issues
- If You have Network Issues
- If Your students have Network Issues
- Audio and video issues
- If your students are in China and they have problem
- If Chrome Freezes
Collaborate Training Session Recordings
To view a recording of a Collaborate training sessions click below
- DELTA Staff Development Training room / Collaborate Training Session 29/01/2020
- DELTA Staff Development Training room / Collaborate Training session 15/09/2020
- DELTA Staff Development Training room / Blackboard groups to record vivas and presentations with Collaborate 22/09/2020
- DELTA Staff Development Training room / PowerPoint subtitles in Collaborate 22/09/2020
- DELTA Staff Development Training room / Advanced Collaborate (Subtitles and Assessment) 06/10/2020