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Attendee roles in Collaborate

September 15, 2020 by Beth Hammond

Understand the different roles in Collaborate webinars and how to assign them.

Using Blackboard Collaborate across modules and programmes

September 4, 2020 by Beth Hammond

Learn how to get a link for your live Collaborate session and a link for the recorded session, for students who can’t enter through the Blackboard module site.

Delivering webinars: Guides for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

September 4, 2020September 3, 2020 by Beth Hammond

This article provides written and video guidance material for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to deliver webinars (live lectures and lessons delivered virtually). For an overview and related articles, see our … Read more

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Statistics from Blackboard Collaborate sessions

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 by Helga Gunnarsdottir

The Interactive Tutorials Report in Collaborate shows you who joined your live sessions.

Using Collaborate: a guide for students

September 3, 2020April 21, 2020 by Sophie Burton

The LIU’s guide to participating in webinars for students.

Contingency plan for move to online delivery

April 20, 2020March 5, 2020 by Caroline Graham

An article on using Panopto for desktop recording and running webinars using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.

Contingency plan: Delivering webinars

September 3, 2020March 5, 2020 by Sophie Burton

Guidance material from the LIU for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to deliver webinars (live lectures and lessons delivered virtually).

Virtual Office Hours

April 17, 2020March 1, 2020 by Beth Hammond

If you are working from home due to University closure, it could be useful to set up virtual office hours. The key thing is to make it clear to your … Read more

Tips for Distance Learning Delivery

April 17, 2020January 19, 2018 by Caroline Graham

The Learning Innovation Unit has pulled together some tips based on recent experience (2017) of supporting the delivery of postgraduate distance learning programmes

Annotate slides while presenting PowerPoint slideshow

April 15, 2020October 17, 2017 by Helga Gunnarsdottir

We are often asked for advice about annotating slides and pointing out things on slides during a lecture. This is often in connection with recording the lecture with Panopto, where … Read more