I hear many comments from teaching staff that students don’t contribute to Discussion Boards or to online classroom discussions. This can be for a variety of reasons; one of the first being that they need to feel comfortable; that it
Collaborate Ultra
Sustaining Student Interactions in Large Scale Collaborate Ultra Sessions
A large scale session in Collaborate Ultra is one with more than 250 but fewer than 500 participants. Collaborate Ultra currently supports a maximum of 500 participants. For large scale sessions, features that normally promote participant interactions are restricted. Specifically,
Large Collaborate Ultra Sessions with 250+ Students
Course coordinators with large number of students in Collaborate Ultra sessions are experiencing some connectivity, stability and presentation issues. The issues include: Large CU sessions crashing Presenters locked out (before or after a crash) due to session numbers Dropping out
Privacy notice for virtual classroom sessions
All students should be made aware that virtual classroom sessions (e.g., Collaborate Ultra sessions) are recorded. We advise that the following notice be posted (attached) as a course announcement and placed somewhere prominent in your Canvas course, such as on
Preparing for your breakout room activities
Breakout rooms are wonderful to engage students in activities and it is well researched that active learning plays an important part in student engagement and learning. They can also be a bit of a disaster if we haven’t thought through
Collaborate Ultra: new whiteboard features expected 6 August
From: https://help.blackboard.com/Collaborate/Ultra/Administrator/Release_Notes Collaborate Ultra whiteboard updates: Better formatting: Pencil thickness, fonts and font size, shapes with color fill, arrows, and more are added to the annotation tools. Usability: It’s easier to copy and reuse elements and paste text. You can
Help! I’ve got a large class and want do a live session.
If you have a very large cohort >250 students, you might experience some challenges with getting student engagement and following the chat messages during live online sessions. Here are some ideas which might help: 1. Creating a separate space to
Collaborate Ultra Breakouts: group switching quirk
Issue: Attendees in Breakout Groups can be temporarily prevented from switching groups by a moderator – even with the [x] Allow attendees to switch groups is switched on.Cause: As soon as the Share Content > Breakout Groups > Assign Groups
So now what? The move from content delivery to collaborative learning
Many teaching staff used Collaborate Ultra for the first time this semester and it came with many challenges for some. So far their learning journey has been simply dealing with the tool to deliver content online and everyone has done
