Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate enables you to hold classes, meetings, office hours, or one-on-one consulting sessions on-line and allows people to interact in a fun, engaging way. Because of this technology, departments on campus can save money on travel, because meetings and events can be held on-line. Events can also be recorded for later viewing.
Blackboard Collaborate uses virtual classrooms, rooms and meeting spaces that allow exciting new approaches in peer-to-peer learning and instructor-led courses while involving each participant on an individual level. Collaborate allows you to poll your participants, use and share a white board, chat with participants, have participants virtually raise their hands for questions, import PowerPoint slides, share your computer screen or a particular window with participants, share the microphone with participants, use a webcam, and MORE!
Blackboard Collaborate may be used either from within Blackboard, or outside of Blackboard. Classes that are already in Blackboard may want to take advantage of the built-in interface to Blackboard Collaborate. Faculty, staff, and students with a faculty or staff sponsor may use Collaborate outside of Blackboard by requesting a room with the Blackboard Collaborate Room Request.
Users of Blackboard Collaborate are expected to adhere to University Policies, please especially review the Acceptable Use of Computing and Electronic Resources Policy.
Helpful Resources
- Comparing What's New in Blackboard Collaborate 12 to Blackboard Collaborate 11
(PDF: requires a reader such as Adobe Reader) - Video: Blackboard Collaborate 12 New Features
- What's new...Blackboard Collaborate 12 (PDF: requires a reader such as Adobe Reader)
- Blackboard Collaborate Best Practices
- Blackboard Collaborate Room Request
Note: Classes in Blackboard automatically have Collaborate rooms, so a separate request is not required.
- Free Blackboard Collaborate Webinars
- Best Practice Guides
- Faculty Resources
Support
- To register for training, go to the UNCG Workshops and Events Calendar and look for ITS Training – Blackboard Collaborate.
Note: If you have taken our Blackboard Collaborate workshop, please take a moment to fill out the UNCG ITS Training Evaluation. - For technical issues, call Blackboard Collaborate 24/7 Technical Support at (877) 382-2293.
- For questions about how to use features of Blackboard Collaborate, contact 6-TECH at (336) 256-TECH (8324) or 6-TECH@uncg.edu.
