Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a web-conferencing tool that can be used by faculty, staff, and students from within Brightspace by D2L. This web-conferencing tool allows groups to meet together at a specific time but from various locations.
What are Options for Using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra?
- Course Orientations
- Weekly meetings with students in hybrid courses
- Optional meetings with students in traditional courses
- Common meeting room for student study (not monitored by instructor)
- Small group rooms for students to meet synchronously to discuss projects
- Tutoring sessions provided by instructor, staff members, and/or other students
- Advising sessions/Office meetings with students or other colleagues
- Recording of video demonstration (using the whiteboard) to be reviewed by students asynchronously
What Type of Interactivity is Possible with Blackboard Collaborate Ultra?
- Instructors can use the whiteboard and pen features to work/solve problems (teacher-student or student-student)
- Students/Instructors can use shapes to create diagrams to convey messages or complex processes.
- Create (either in Blackboard Ultra or PowerPoint) polling (yes/no) or multiple choice questions.
- Create breakout rooms to randomly or strategically partner students. Each group will have their own whiteboard and chat area.
- Instructors can allow students to use video, text chat, and voice chat to ask questions, make comments, etc.
- Students can use the hand-raise feature to maximize usage of classroom time and organization.
- Instructors can provide guest speakers (who are not enrolled in the course) a link to enter and participate in the session.
- Instructors can promote students to a presenter role to allow them to share their own files or screen.
- Instructors/Students can share their screen to demo special software/files