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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


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


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


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


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


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

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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


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

| Apr 18, 2023 11Note: a red border around the whiteboard indicates that you are on Explore Mode

The icon turns red while you are in Explore Mode


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


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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