Collaborate Ultra Classroom Guides

1. an Instructor Quick Start Guide, 
2. a Guide for Students, and
3. a series of Detailed Videos (and text) on "Getting Started with Collaborate Ultra" (Creating the Room, Editing the Default Settings, the room Interface, the Collaborate Panel: Chat, Polling, Breakout Rooms, The Session Menu with a Focus on  Recording the class).

• Blackboard Collaborate Ultra allows faculty members to schedule online classes or office hours to communicate with students live or allow the students to watch recorded sessions.
• Students can see others via webcam, hear and ask questions via voice or instant messaging, and share presentations and ideas using a common whiteboard or by sharing desktops.
• Sessions can recorded and can be posted with other course materials in a Blackboard course or shared outside of Blackboard as a direct link.
• What to do if the Microphone or Camera Access is Blocked in your Collaborate Room.
• How to use a second device or browser tab as a "confidence monitor" to see what your students are seeing in the room.

1.  Collaborate Ultra Quick Start Guide for Instructors:

As a text document:  http://www.personal.kent.edu/~lmarks/Collaborate Ultra/Blackboard Collaboarate Ultra Quick Start Guide for Instructors.docx

The video below is a Quick Start Guide for Instructors to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. (14:22)

It shows how to:

1. Create a Room in Blackboard

2. Make it Available

3. Enter it and see the Basic Controls.

4.  Share Content with students.

5. Record a session.

 You can view the Video at: https://youtu.be/ysjUNFo48Dk  OR

https://video.kent.edu/media/Blackboard+Collaborate+Ultra+Quick+Start+Guide/1_7ce7pxdt

As a text document: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~lmarks/Collaborate Ultra/Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Student Guide.docx

Assuming you are thinking of using Blackboard Collaborate, you may want to see what the students see, or to provide them with a Guide to Collaborate Ultra.  If so, this video may be useful.

The video (16:46) can be viewed at:

https://youtu.be/UtfkCyBQQvc  or  https://video.kent.edu/media/Blackboard+Collaborate+Ultra+-+Student+Guide/1_e7wfyoes

The video describes:

• how to get into a Collaborate Ultra room within Blackboard,
• how to set up your camera and microphone (either from the Collaborate Panel menu or from the My Status and Settings button) and activate or mute those, 
• the “grid view” and the “follow the speaker view,”
• how to provide “feedback” (emotive reactions; away from the room) and to raise your hand,
• how to create or change your profile picture (from the camera or as an upload),
• the Polling feature, the Chat option, the Attendee panel,
• how to add text, drawing, etc. to a Collaborate object being shared in the room,
• how to work in a Breakout Group (talk, chat, share) and save a room’s content (e.g., taking a picture of the Whiteboard) that can be shared later with the class,
• how to control the view of a shared object (zoom in, zoom out, best fit, 1:1) to better see that content,
• how to Exit the room
• how to find a Recorded Session from the Collaborate Sessions page.

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Problem:  Not Sure What the Students Are Seeing

How to set up a 2nd device to let you see what the students in your Collaborate class see, avoiding that irritating question to the class, "Can you see this?" is at 

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3.  Detailed Videos in the Series “Getting Started with Blackboard Collaborate Ultra”

As a text document at:  http://www.personal.kent.edu/~lmarks/Collaborate Ultra/Blackboard Collaboarate Ultra Detailed Instructor Guide.docx

1. Creating the Collaborate Ultra Room (3:30)

https://youtu.be/ucNFChQn6-o  

https://video.kent.edu/media/1.+Creating+the+Collaborate+Ultra+Room/1_b4yu5oh2  

 Just what it sounds like.  How to create a Collaborate Room and make it available to students. 

2. Editing the Default Settings for a Collaborate Ultra Room (6:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9E_mxkSgT4

https://video.kent.edu/media/2.+Editing+the+Default+Collaborate+Ultra+Room/1_0k88kesc  

3a. The Collaborate Ultra Room - Interface (8:36)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtQw9Ig4Ko

https://video.kent.edu/media/3.++The+Collabrate+Ultra+Room+-+Interface/1_uqqylw0r

An explanation of the basic interface options including:

•   Away from the session indicator

•  Feedback options

• Share or mute audio (Mic) and video (Camera)

• Raise Hand

3b. The Collaborate Ultra Room - The Collaborate Panel (23:35)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ZlUl79IWo   

https://video.kent.edu/media/3.+The+Collaborate+Ultra+Room+-+The+Collaborate+Panel/1_r6bf109t

• This video covers the Chat, Attendees, Share Content, and Settings Panes of the Collaborate Panel.
• Examples are provided of Sharing a Whiteboard, Applications, Camera, Files, and of Polling and creating Breakout Groups.
• Additionally, the "My Settings" options are discussed, including setting the User Picture, the Audio and Video Settings, the Notification Settings, the Session Settings, and Reporting an Issue.
• A separate video focusing just on Breakout Rooms is at https://video.kent.edu/media/How+to+Use+Breakout+Rooms+in+your+Collaborate+Classroom+on+Blackboard/1_mlb0ve1m (9 minutes)
  

3c. The Collaborate Ultra Room - The Session Menu with a Focus on the Room Recording (18:31)

https://youtu.be/sUAmrYRJmww

https://video.kent.edu/media/3c.+The+Collaborate+Room+-+Session+Menu+with+focus+on+Recording/1_0p15t1t9

This video looks at the Collaborate Ultra Room's Session menu, but the focus is on the Room Recording.

• We see what a session looks like from the Instructor's view, the Student's view, and the Room Recording.
• The video shows Recorded views of Files, Sharing the Screen, Sharing a Google Tab, and sharing files into Breakout Rooms.
• A caution is given that if an instructor ENTERS a Breakout Room during a Room Recording, the recording STOPS.
• A suggestion is made that for many purposes Sharing a Screen, App, or Tab may be more effective than Sharing Files.
• Also viewed are the Reports available and downloading the Room Recording.
  • ..and from Blackboard, "How to Share Files with Breakout Groups https://youtu.be/hf5AlhIOFzs (0:47)