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Engaging students in online discussions

Pauline Porcaro Canvas, Collaborate Ultra, Online learning & teaching, Practice September 11, 2020September 14, 2020Discussion boards, online discussion

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

Sustaining Student Interactions in Large Scale Collaborate Ultra Sessions

Anselm Paul Collaborate Ultra, Learning & Teaching, Online learning & teaching August 20, 2020August 20, 2020Student engagement

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

Tom Cotton Collaborate Ultra August 10, 2020August 11, 2020known issues

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

Joseph Lambe Blended Learning, Canvas, Collaborate Ultra, Webinars August 10, 2020Blended learning, Canvas, Collaborate Ultra, flexible learning, Student engagement

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

Pauline Porcaro Blended Learning, Collaborate Ultra, Learning & Teaching, Online learning & teaching July 27, 2020breakout rooms, learning 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

Tom Cotton Collaborate Ultra July 27, 2020

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.

Sheryl Maher Collaborate Ultra, Online learning & teaching July 23, 2020August 10, 2020flexible learning, Large Classes, online learning, Student Response System

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

Tom Cotton Collaborate Ultra June 22, 2020

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

Pauline Porcaro Collaborate Ultra, Learning & Teaching, Online learning & teaching May 24, 2020May 24, 2020active learning, Collaborate Ultra, collaborative learning, engagement

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

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