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GBS L&K: Learning Enablement Team
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Blackboard Collaborate: Presenter Instruction
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Pre-Session Setup Tips
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1. Run your Audio Wizard:Make sure you can hear and speak clearly.
Click on the icon shown or go to Tools> Audio> Audio Setup Wizard
2. Slow Internet Connection?Adjust your connection speed accordingly. Go to Edit> Preferences> Session. Set your
speed to 28.8 Kbps Dialup, and Always in the Prompt for speed box
3. Who’s in this session?You will need to sign the roster to confirm your attendance. The event facilitator will
provide details of this via text chat
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Welcome to Blackboard Collaborate
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Activate / Deactive Mic
Text chat
Emoticons / Step away / Raise hand / Polling
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Setting Connection Speed Edit – Preferences – Session – Connection
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Who does what
Soundchecks
Starting / stopping recording
Introduction
Troubleshooting
Timekeeping
Microphone distribution
Clearing Yes/No’s & raised hands
Monitoring text chat
Helping presenters wherever possible
Helping participants wherever possible
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Navigating slides Delivering content Using Blackboard
Collaborate interactivity tools
Responding to participants
Engaging participants Informing Educating Amusing Inspiring
Listening & Learning Interacting
(whenever possible) Contributing (when
permitted) Acknowledging
presenter(s) Giving feedback
Leader / Facilitator Presenter Participant
Reminder: There are more Leader / Facilitator responsibilities than noted here … this is just a summary
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The Blackboard Collaborate interface (for Leaders)
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Text chat area
Participantarea
Audio/Video tools
Response buttons
Page options Slide options
Timer / info
Recording controlContent loading
Markup tools
Facilitator tools
Audio wizard & additional tools
Whiteboard / Application share / Web tour
Media Window
Participant permission controls
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Audio tips
Always run the Audio Setup Wizard
Or go to Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard
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Please check your master volume settings on your computer each time…
Voice over IP tool: Telephone not required!
Headset recommended. Failing that - your PC microphone & speakers
Before the session:
Reminder: a teleconference line can be integrated in Blackboard Collaborate
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Voice Communication
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To activate your microphone
Remember: Click again to switch it off when you’re finished talking!
Audio indicator informs you if you or someone else is speaking
Reminder: as best practice, only one microphone should be active at a time to avoid background noise or feedback.
The blue mic icon beside your name means your microphone is activated
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Loading Slides into the Classroom Load slides by clicking on the button
Notes:
The upload speed depends on the file size
10 MB file size limit
Powerpoint animations are not supported
Other file types are supported – experiment with these
MS-Office is on the way out … get ready for Apache Open Office
| Apr 18, 2023 9Reminder: See important notes later on about slide viewing problems
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Navigating slides: Three options:
1. Use the forward and backward arrows to move forward or backward a slide respectively
2. Click on the slide title on the drop down box in the agenda area
3. Open Page Explorer from the options menu and double click on a slide thumbnail
| Apr 18, 2023 10Reminder: as best practice, the person speaking should navigate the slides
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Browsing slides without showing the audience
You can look through the slides yourself by selecting the “Explore Mode” icon
Audience members will be left on the current page as you browse
Click on the icon again to return to normal slide viewing mode
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The icon turns red while you are in Explore Mode
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Application sharing The Application Sharing tool enables anyone inside Blackboard
Collaborate share a remote application.
To activate: click on the Appshare icon at the top of the media window
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Recommended screen setup during application share
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Resize your application to fit the rest of your screen
Keep the Blackboard Collaborate left-hand panel visible so you
can see your audience
Stop / Pause appshare, or take a
snapshot
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Application sharing best practice Read and practice in your own time: Use with caution – requires higher bandwidth
Ensure your appshare settings are correct to cope with this as best as possible
Make sure the application is running on your desktop before launching
We recommend sharing specific application(s) rather than the whole desktop
Ask your participants if they can see your application ok
Advise them they can scroll left, right, up & down, or “scale to fit”
The Blackboard Collaborate left hand panel should remain on the left of your screen
You should resize your application to fit the rest of the available window space
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File transfer
The file transfer tool allows you to load a file into the Blackboard Collaborate session and send it to all the participants.
Same as the multimedia function, Files should be kept relatively small so as not to have any issues during the Blackboard Collaborate session.
Once the file has been loaded, learners will receive a prompt to save the file
You also have an option to hand out specific files at different points in time
See options in File Transfer Library.
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