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Page 1: Blackboard Collaborate Training for Moderators
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HOW TO CREATE A SESSION

1. Log in to your Blackboard Collaborate

account at https://sas.elluminate.com

2. Click “Schedule a Meeting”

3. Give your session a name, date, and

starting/ending time. (You will be able to log

in 30 minutes prior to the start time.)

4. You will then receive a confirmation email

with the moderator link to join as well as a

guest link to send out to your participants.

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VOCABULARY

Audio/Video

Panel

Collaborate Bar

Menu Bar

Chat Panel

Content Area

Participants

Panel

Side Bar

Options Menu

Feedback Icons

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AUDIO SETUP WIZARD

1. Configure your

audio wizard by

clicking the

following icon:

2. Update your profile. Right click on your name and

click “Edit Profile”

3. Chat area Click on the entry box in the

chat, type a message, then hit

enter/return on your

keyboard.

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KEYS TO SPEAKING

• Click and Release

the “Talk” button to

activate the

microphone.

• Click and Release

again when you are

done.

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KEYS TO LIVE VIDEO

Click the preview button BEFORE transmitting

Video TipsSolid background

Make sure items you do not want to be seen are not in the camera view

The following icon indicates the user is transmitting video.

Preview button

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AUDIO ICONS/SYMBOLS

Orange: slight delay (3-8 seconds)

Red: longer delay (8+ seconds)

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RECORDING THE SESSION

To Activate: Click

the “Record”

button.

To Pause: Click

the

“Recording”

button.

To Resume: Click

the “Record”

button.

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EMOTICONS AND AWAY STATUS

By clicking on the smiley face button, you can select a variety of emoticons such as thumbs up or applauding.

By clicking on the second icon, you can indicate that you need to temporarily step away from your computer.

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GLOBAL PERMISSIONS

The default setting is for all participants to be able to use

audio, video, chat, and the whiteboard while moderators

can also do application sharing and web tour.

You can alter any of these global permissions by clicking

the Options Menu and the choosing the permissions you

want enabled.

Look here for a

quick glance of

what permissions

you have enabled.

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CHATTING WITH AN INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT

• To send a chat

message to an

individual

participant, right

click on their

name and select

“Send a Private

Chat”.

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MULTIPLE MODERATORS

Moderator privileges may be given to a participant if they are

co-teaching the webinar.

To do so, right click on the participant’s name and select

“Give Moderator Privileges”

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PRIVATE CHAT WITH MODERATORS

If there is more than one

moderator, you can have

a private conversation.

A separate tab will

automatically appear in

the chat panel.

You know you have a

message when a speech

bubble icon appears next

to the word “Moderators”.

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AS A MODERATOR, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO

WITH YOUR CONTENT?

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WHITEBOARD TOOLS

• Your whiteboard tools

allow you and your

participants to have a

cursor, pointer, write

with a pen/marker,

create a text box, make

shapes and outlines,

etc.

• Explore these tools to

get the hang of them.

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TRY OUT YOUR WHITEBOARD TOOLS HERE

Write your name in your favorite color.

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LOADING CONTENT

1. Close your

PowerPoint

application.

2. Click the “Load

Content” button.

3. Select a

PowerPoint file

and click

“Open”. (It

cannot be any

other file type)

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LOADING CONTENT

• Your computer will pop up the

following windows but do not touch

any keys.

• When it is finished, you will see a

Page Explorer box like this:

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2

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NAVIGATING CONTENT

• Navigate the slides

using left/right

arrows.

• Click on drop down

menu to see list of

slide titles.

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NAVIGATING CONTENT

If you click the

“Follow” button,

participants will see

the same slide you

do.

If you uncheck the

“Follow” button,

you can look ahead

or behind to

different slides

without your

participants being

able to see what

you are doing.

A red box will remain

around the last

slide that

participants are

viewing.

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FILE TRANSFER (SLIDE 1 OF 2)

1. Click “File”, “Open”, and then “File for Transfer”

2. Select the file you want to share with your participants and then

click “Open”

3. A status bar shows you the progress of the file uploading for

transfer.

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FILE TRANSFER (SLIDE 2 OF 2)

4. Participants will be sent an announcement box that says a file

has been sent to them. Encourage them to click “Yes”.

5. Participants will be prompted to designate a place on their

computer where they want to save the file.

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APPLICATION SHARE

1. To share an

application with

your participants,

make sure you

have the

application already

open on your

computer.

2. Click the

“Application

Share” icon on the

Collaborate Bar.

3. A list of

applications you

have open will

appear. Select the

one you want to

share.

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APPLICATION SHARE

Once you have shared a specific application with the participants,

they will only see the application you shared with them.

If a gray box appears on their screen, you have opened up a

second application that you did not agree to share with them.

You can only share one application at a time.

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DISAPPEARING WHITEBOARD

After doing an application share, it is likely that your

whiteboard will “disappear”. You can retrieve the

whiteboard by pulling out from the side bar. *View

screencast for demonstration*

1 2 3

Pull

to

the

right

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HOW TO STOP AN APPLICATION SHARE

Once you are finished sharing an application with participants, you need to go back to Blackboard Collaborate and stop sharing.

1. Above the content area in Blackboard, you will see a button that says “Stop Sharing”.

2. Then click on the Whiteboard icon on the Collaborate Bar to go back to the Whiteboard or PowerPoint presentation you were showing.

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WEB TOUR

A web tour allows you to take participants to a webpage while

still staying in Blackboard Collaborate.

1. Click the Web Tour icon

2. Paste in the URL of the website you would like to take

participants to

3. Hit enter/return

4. All participants will be able to view (within Blackboard) the

website you sent them and will be able to browse the page

independently

5. If you click the “Follow Me” button, participants will follow

your every click on the website (even if they are trying to

browse independently)

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POLLING (SLIDE 1 OF 3)

Besides the default “Yes/No” on the Feedback Toolbar, you

can also poll participants with multiple choice answers.

1. Click the Options Menu

2. Select “Polling Type” and then select the type of

response you want the participants to be able to choose

from.

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POLLING (SLIDE 2 OF 3)

• Once participants complete the poll, their answer will appear

next to their name.

• You can publish the results of the poll to the whiteboard in

order to display the data in a bar graph. Click the Options

Menu and then select “Publish Responses to Whiteboard”.

• Click the “Clear” button to clear their answers.

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POLLING (SLIDE 3 OF 3)

In the Options Menu

• Select “Lock Responses” if

you do not want

participants to be able to

change their answer once

one is selected.

• Select “Make Responses

Visible” if you want their

answers displayed for

others to see (this is the

default).

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LOWERING ALL HANDS

If you many of your

participants have

their hand raised

and you want to

lower them all at

once.

1. Click the Options

Menu

2. Then select “Lower

All Hands”

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SAVING THE WHITEBOARD

To save the whiteboard, click “File”, “Save” and “Whiteboard”.

Select what page(s) of the whiteboard you want to save and

where you want it saved. It will be a “wbd” file.

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RETRIEVING RECORDED SESSIONS

A recording of the sessions you moderate will be emailed to you upon

completion of the webinar.

You can also access the recordings by logging into Blackboard’s website:

http://sas.elluminate.com

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CREATING A COLLABORATE SESSION IN HAIKU (SLIDE 1 OF 5)

Steps:

1.Add Content

Block

2.Choose the

Connect &

Assess Tab

3.Click on

“Activity”

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CREATING A COLLABORATE SESSION IN HAIKU (SLIDE 2 OF 5)

4. Give your

content

block a title

ie: “Webinar

1”

5. Click

“+Create

Session”

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CREATING A COLLABORATE SESSION IN HAIKU (SLIDE 3 OF 5)

6. Complete all fields

7. Click “Create Session

8. Once you create your

session, you will see this

screen

• Note the “guest link”

provided for outside

participants

• You may also edit your

session from this screen

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CREATING A COLLABORATE SESSION IN HAIKU (SLIDE 4 OF 5)

9. Click “Publish”

10. Complete the

Publish Activity

Options

• Make sure to

choose

“Embedded on

page” rather than

“As a link” to

embed your

collaborate

session within

haiku

11. Click “Finish”

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CREATING A COLLABORATE SESSION IN HAIKU (SLIDE 5 OF 5)

12. Your content block

will publish like this

• Be sure to choose

“All Sessions” in the

Filter to see all

available sessions

13. To find your

Collaborate

recording, choose

the “Recordings” tab

and filter by “All

Recordings”


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