Sharing a visualiser/document camera in a TEAL room.
How to share a visualiser/document camera with your students in a TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) room.
Blackboard Collaborate
Hybrid teaching made simple – using a document cam
How to use and share a document cam in hybrid teaching.
Hybrid teaching made simple – using a laptop
How to use a laptop instead of the podium PC to deliver a hybrid teaching session in a classroom.
Hybrid teaching made simple
How to set up a hybrid teaching session using Collaborate, share projected screens and run the chat using one monitor.
Assessed Student Presentations – which methods should you choose?
Panopto and Collaborate can both be used for assessed student presentations – which is best for your scenario?
An introduction to hybrid teaching
A guide for teaching in situations where some of your students are in the physical classroom and others are online.
The Collaborate Assessment Tool
A series of short videos on how to use the new Blackboard Collaborate Assessment tool with your students.
What do I do if Collaborate is down?
A guide to getting your students onto a Teams meeting if Blackboard Collaborate is unavailable
A Guide for New Teaching Staff
For teaching staff who have joined the Faculty recently, or existing staff who’d like a reminder…
Use of Guest links in Blackboard Collaborate
Why you should avoid enabling guest links, and best practice for when they are necessary.
Attendee roles in Collaborate
Understand the different roles in Collaborate webinars and how to assign them.
Using Blackboard Collaborate across modules and programmes
Get links for your live Collaborate session and recording, for students who can’t enter through the Blackboard module site.
Delivering webinars: Guides for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Guidance material (including video guides and a student resource) for delivering webinars using Blackboard Collaborate.
Sharing files using OneDrive – Working in breakout groups
Use shared documents in breakout rooms for students to record the results of collaborative activities.
Editing recordings from Blackboard Collaborate using Panopto
If you want to edit a recording from Blackboard Collaborate, you will need to download it and upload it into Panopto.
Mentimote: control your Mentimeter slides from your mobile device
Learn how to use Mentimote to control your Mentimeter presentations remotely from your smartphone.
Tests and quizzes in the (virtual) classroom
Options for running a synchronous test or quiz in a classroom or webinar.
Statistics from Blackboard Collaborate sessions
The Interactive Tutorials Report in Collaborate shows you who joined your live sessions.
Interactive seminars, tutorials and drop-ins using Blackboard Collaborate
Using breakout groups, polling and feedback icons for interaction in Collaborate.
Setting up breakout groups in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Get students working together in your online sessions by using breakout groups.
Contingency plan for move to online delivery
An article on using Panopto for desktop recording and running webinars using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.
Tips for Distance Learning Delivery
The Learning Innovation Unit has pulled together some tips based on recent experience (2017) of supporting the delivery of postgraduate distance learning programmes
Using Collaborate Ultra for one-to-one sessions
The term ‘webinar’ is perhaps mostly associated with meeting with a group of people, however the technology used for webinars … Read more
Feedback Icons in Blackboard Collaborate webinars
Encouraging students to use the feedback icons not only keeps them engaged, it gives you feedback too
Using Polling in a Blackboard Collaborate Webinar
One way of making webinars more interactive, engaging and useful for learners is to use polling