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This document will cover Tips tips and Tricks tricks you can use when in a Live Blackboard Class Collaborate Session.  It  It will include what to do to prepare for the session , recording and how to record the session, sharing share content, changing student's rolechange students' roles, and sharing share recordings in your course. 

Once the tool is added to your course, you and your students can enter into any Collaborate session. Be sure to communicate with your students , what virtual room they should join (i.e. Course Room) and at what time should they join. More detailed documentation on Collaborate can be found at: Using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra - A User Guide.Note: You don't  

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Before the

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Session Starts

Make sure you 've have tested your Audio and Camera by clicking on the Collaborate Panel Menu (bottom right), click clicking the Settings Panel, and click on "Setup clicking Set up your camera and microphone".
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Once you 've have tested both, the application will remember your settings so you shouldn't do not need to do this every time. But you can return here if you have any issues. If your audio drops out, use your cell phone to call in.

If you share a PowerPoint, you can share it right away and have reminders on the first slide such as:

• If you can hear me, raise your hand by clicking on the person raising their hand at the bottom of the screen. Please leave your hand raised for now.

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• Please send chat messages to Everyone so everyone else can see the responses

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  unless it is private in nature. I will try to respond to all of your questions. If I miss your question, please ask it again.

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• If you have a technical issue connecting your audio,

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  call in by clicking on the top left menu (three white lines)

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  and clicking "Use your phone for audio

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  It is a toll call, so please use your cell phone.

• If at any time, you need me to slow down, click on the person icon (to the left of the microphone) at the bottom of your screen and indicate: slower.

• This session will be recorded and

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  shared in HuskyCT in the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Tool. Click on it, click the menu in the upper left, and click Recordings. (

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  You may share links to each of the videos in your course

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  so modify these instructions as needed).

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Recording the Session

Click on the upper-left Session Menu (three white lines) and click on Start Recording. Be sure to Stop Recording before you leave the session.

Sharing Content

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Share Application/Screen: Share screen if you will be showing more than one application at a time. Share Application if you 're are only sharing one application (that application must be running for you to select it).
Share Whiteboard: You can use a tablet to write on the Whiteboard, but you can't cannot use an iPad. If that 's is what you have, you need to use WebEx.
Share Files: You can share a PowerPoint, PDF, or Image. Once shared, you can annotate them.
Polling: Questions are asked on the fly and can't cannot be saved.
Breakout Groups: Randomly assigned is the best way to create the groups, unless you have a smaller class and have the time to drag/drop students into the groups. These can be used for Think/Pair/Share activities.

Creating a Private Collaborate Session

All the Collaborate Sessions in the Blackboard Collaborate Tool link are accessible by everyone in the course. If you need to meet with someone privately, there is a workaround.

1. Create a group in HuskyCT called “Private Group” and only add the Collaborate Tool to that group. Do not add any students to the group yet.

2. Add the Group Tool link to the menu on the left (if you have not done so already). Click the + sign, and add Tool Link – Groups (make available to users).

3. When you want to meet with a student privately, you can edit the Group to add their name to it.

4. Direct the student to the Group link on the menu at a specified day and time and ask them to click on the “Private Group” before clicking on Collaborate.
   You would also go to that Group to click on Collaborate.

5. Once you have finished meeting with them, you can remove that student’s name from the group.

Changing a Student's Role in a Collaborate Session

By default, the students are Participants in the Course Room, unless you edit it. If a student needs to make a presentation, you can change their role by clicking on the Attendee Panel, click clicking on the circle with three dots to the right of their name, and change changing their role to Presenter. If you have someone helping you manage the session, you can make them the Moderator, if needed. Moderator Moderators can mute microphones , etcand more.

Sharing Recordings with Students

You can direct your students to the Blackboard Collaborate Tool in your course. Ask them to click on the Menu (three white lines) and click Recordings.

If you anticipating anticipate having multiple recordings, it might help students if you can to link to each recording from a Content Area in your course.

1. To get the link, click on the circle with three dots to the right of the recording.

2. Copy that link.

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2. Add it as a Web Link

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1. to your Course.

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