UDM now has access to “Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra Experience.” This version of Blackboard Collaborate has a more modern, user-friendly feel, but lacks some of the power-user features found in the current Collaborate. Want to learn more about Collaborate with the Ultra Experience?...
Although the link between Knowledge and TitanConnect means students are automatically loaded into your traditional courses based on their enrollment, you may on occasion need to add a student, teaching assistant, or co-instructor to your Blackboard course site. Fortunately, this is easily done. 1. First, click the USERS AND GROUPS heading in the Control Panel, then select Users. 2. The Users page lists all the users enrolled in the course (provided the pulldown in the search space is set...
If you’ve ever run a class in Blackboard Collaborate and tried using more than one PowerPoint presentation — maybe your students are giving online presentations and each presenter has their own set of slides — you’ve noticed Collaborate doesn’t manage multiple presentation files very well on its own. Fortunately, we can easily solve this problem by manually foldering our presentations. In Blackboard Collaborate lingo, we need to create “Whiteboard page groups.” First, we need to open the Page Explorer. The...
Though UDM’s Blackboard course site has proven extremely reliable over the last several years, it’s never a bad idea to be prepared for the worst. If you’re concerned that a Blackboard outage may affect your students’ ability to attend a synchronous Collaborate session, this post will walk you through the steps necessary to create a back-up Collaborate room which you can invite your students to in case of a Blackboard or campus internet outage. Before we get started, let’s talk...
In this video, we’ll review how to use the Polling and Quizzing features in Blackboard Collaborate....
