Welcome to Blackboard Collaborate

1. Welcome to Blackboard Collaborate Before we start: Please check your audio is working: Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard Say hello to the group Please introduce yourself in the chat room If you don’t have a video camera you can upload a photo of yourself. Click the button to the right of your name & choose Edit Profile. If you want to download and print out the PowerPoint slides for this session you can do so

2. Can everyone hear me ok? Please use the tick and cross buttons to let me know

3. Using the Interface Audio – click [Talk] only when talking • Emoticons (approval etc.) • Set status to “Away” • Raise your hand • Polling Chatting TIP: Hold your mouse over buttons to see what they do

4. Elsewhere Where do you live? Use the starin thewhiteboardtools panel

5. What are 2-3 things you can use the whiteboard for? Use the text box in the whiteboard tools panel to add your contributions below

6. Who has used web conferencing before? • Please use the tick or cross to let me know • Then you can clear your responseor wait for me to clear the responses

7. Audio – introduce yourself to the group • Please raise your hand to speak • I will ask each person to speak in turn • When I do this click on the [Talk] button. When the [Talk] button has a blue microphone others can hear you: • Introduce yourself to the group and tell us what you do, what experience you’ve had with web conferencing (if any) and what you want to get out of today’s session. • Click [Talk] again to turn off your mic when you’ve finished

8. How to upload files • I will now share my screen with you to show you how to upload files that are sent to the participants

9. Example of a poll • I will now share my screen with you to show you how to change the poll type to an ABC response and then post the response data to the whiteboard

10. Q. Do you think you would use polls with your students? • Yes • No • I’m not sure

11. Breakout groups • You can use breakout groups to allow people to collaborate in smaller teams. • You can : • assign people to groups randomly • manually move users in to groups • allow people to join a group

12. Web tour Good for: • Showing videos – video plays on each participants own computer independently. • Case studies – students can navigate the website Example: • Blackboard Collaborate introduction video (start from 5) • http://www.brainshark.com/blackboardinc/vu?pi=zGLzYw5XBz35Sgz0

13. Share an application Good for: • Showing how to use a program • Pointing out a particular part of a website • Showing a particular part of a video Example: • Blackboard Collaborate introduction video (start from 5) • http://www.brainshark.com/blackboardinc/vu?pi=zGLzYw5XBz35Sgz0

14. Any final questions? • Post these on the chat window or • Raise your hand to talk

15. Thank you  • If you’d like to applaud now you can do so using the emoticons