Your Blackboard Collaborate session will begin shortly
While waiting you can:
AUDIO
SETUP
WIZARD
TALK
RAISE
HAND
CHAT
• Run through the Audio Setup Wizard (ASW):
– Click on the ASW icon (see left); or
– Tools  Audio  Audio Setup Wizard
– NOTE: If you do not have a microphone you can
skip the configuration
• Practice what to do when you have a question:
– Raise your hand or type the question into the chat
window; or
– If you have a microphone
• Push the talk button to speak
• Press it again when you are done to turn it off
• Practice texting in the chat window
• Press the Talk button to talk with each other
Familiarize yourself with the Participant Panel
• A Few Ground Rules
Poll
Responses
Smiley
Away
Hand
Raise
– If you have a question raise your
hand
– If you step away let me know by
using the Away button
– You may turn on your Talk button
to ask your question once
acknowledged
– Turn off your Talk button when you
are done speaking
– If given Moderator Privileges
please only click what the
instructor tells you to click or use.
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Bb Collaborate Essentials
A Center for Teaching & Learning Presentation
Facilitated by CTL staff
When People Talk, Great Things Happen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMs8YpvizwA
How much have you used Collaborate before?
A. Not at all
B. Once
C. A couple of times
D. Use it on a regular basis
Respond to question by
selecting either a, b, c, or d
from the drop-down menu
Today’s Agenda: Overview of Blackboard Collaborate Essentials
• Greetings
–Meet the Center for Teaching & Learning Team
• Bb Collaborate: A Quick Overview of the Literature
–Best practices support its use
–Student success is improved
–Enhances Face-to-Face Courses
• Faculty & Student Resources
• Let’s Play! Hands on Exploration of Bb Collaborate
• Feedback
Dr. Tonya Amankwatia
Welcome! from your CTL Team
Director of CTL
x4886, tamankwatia@regent.edu
Pidge Bannin
Beth Johanson
Sr. Instructional Designer
x4525, pbannin@regent.edu
Sr. Instructional Technologist
x4474, bjohanson@regent.edu
Jackie Bruso
David Bilberry
Sr. Instructional Designer
x4259, jbruso@regent.edu
Instructional Technologist
x4283, dbilberry@regent.edu
Olgy Gary
Nile Gomez
Sr. Instructional Designer
x4128, ogary@regent.edu
Instructional Technologist
x4885, nilegom@regent.edu
Jeff Keeney
Christianne Page
Instructional Technology Coordinator
x4494, jeffkee@regent.edu
Web Media Producer
x4478, cpage@regent.edu
http://www.regent.edu/ctl (ABOUT US > Staff Directory)
Session Goals: By the end of this session you will be able to:
List steps to
set up a
Collaborate
room in your
Blackboard
course
Show the
literature
supports the
use of webconferencing
Make use of
Collaborate’s
tool panel,
web sharing
and web
tour
features
Locate CTL’s
resources
available to
assist you in
the use of
Collaborate
Today’s Agenda: Overview of Blackboard Collaborate
• Greetings
–Meet the Center for Teaching & Learning Team
• Bb Collaborate: A Quick Overview of the Literature
–Best practices support its use
–Student success is improved
–Enhances Face-to-Face Courses
• Faculty & Student Resources
• Let’s Play! Hands on Exploration of Bb Collaborate
• Feedback
A Quick Overview of the Literature
(Allen & Seaman, 2014, Infographic)
The State of Online Learning: Infographic
(Allen & Seaman, 2014, Infographic)
Best Practices Support the Use of Interactive Conferencing Online
“Research and practice point to the
need for university teachers, new
and experienced and at all levels of
education, to acquire new skills in
creating, managing, and promoting
student participation in interactive
conferencing online.”
(Gregory & Salmon, 2013, p. 259)
Best Practices Support the Use of Interactive Conferencing Online
1. Increase Completion Rates and Retention
2. Eliminate Geographical Barriers
3. Build Online Communities
4. Save Travel Costs
5. Increase Staff Productivity
6. Accommodate Multiple Learning Styles
7. Incorporate Technology in the Classroom
8. Scale Information and Knowledge
9. Leverage Limited Teaching Resources
10. Provide Professional Development
Top Ten Benefits of Using Bb Collaborate
Student Success is Improved
• Increases…
– accessibility
– interaction
• student-to-student &
• student-to-teacher
• Promotes active learning
• Adds Variety
(Macaulay & Dyer, 2011)
Getting Engaged: How to Reach Today’s Students
• There’s nothing new about the connection
between student engagement and student
learning. Educators have been making it
for years.
• What’s changed is the role that technology plays in the classroom.
• What’s changed is the emergence of virtual learning, both real-time and self-paced.
• And what’s changed is the students. They’re digital natives – tech savvy, connected,
always on – who’ll turn learning off if it’s not deeply engaging.
10 Cool Ways to Engage with Blackboard Collaborate
Student Success is Improved
• Outcomes from instruction using web-conferencing software:
– High rates of student
participation
– correct student
responding
– high levels of
student satisfaction
(Hudson, Knight, & Collins, 2012)
Three Types of Courses: Survey of Online Education
Type of course
• There are three types
of courses today
• Bb Collaborate relates
to all three.
% of Content
Delivered Online
Web Facilitated
1 to 29%
Blended /Hybrid
30 to 79%
Online
80+%
(Allen & Seaman, 2014, p. 6)
Enhance Your Face-to-Face Course: Three Ways to Use Collaborate
• If professors are not
lecturing via recorded
sessions online:
• Use a virtual meeting
room for: Office hours,
brainstorming, course
meeting rooms.
• 2/3rds of that is not
recorded lectures.
Web-enhanced Courses Foster Student Interaction
“Web-enhanced courses
– are face-to-face courses that use any form
of electronic media to post information,
deliver content, provide learning
resources, and foster student interaction
outside the classroom.
– They are not distance education courses,
because instruction takes place in the
classroom.
– Technology is used to support instruction
instead of being the main source of course
delivery”
(“About web-enhanced courses,” 2013)
Web-Conferencing Enhances Face-to-Face Courses
One way to respond to educational change is
thru course design & redesign
• Maximizes students’ learning
• Helps ensure courses efficiently/effectively
prepare students
During the last ten years, a third course design
option has emerged in higher education,
including legal education—a blended course that
combines the face-to-face and online formats.
(Hess, 2013, p. 51)
Today’s Agenda: Overview of Blackboard Collaborate
• Greetings
–Meet the Center for Teaching & Learning Team
• Bb Collaborate: A Quick Overview of the Literature
–Best practices support its use
–Student success is improved
–Enhances Face-to-Face Courses
• Faculty & Student Resources
• Let’s Play! Hands on Exploration of Bb Collaborate
• Feedback
Where can you go for help?!?
• You want to start using
Collaborate.
• But where do you go for
help when you need it?
Collaborate Resources Available from CTL
• No need to get frustrated
over using Collaborate.
• CTL is ready to help with
tips & resources!
Collaborate Resources Available from CTL
• Faculty:
www.regent.edu/ctl > Collaborate tutorials
• Students:
RU Resources tab page in Blackboard
Faculty Resources
Resources available at the CTL
Collaborate page:
– Learn Collaborate!
– 10 Habits of Highly Effective
Moderators
– Getting Started for Moderators
Quick Reference Guide
– Loading a PowerPoint file
– And more!
http://www.regent.edu/admin/ctl/tutorials/collaborate.cfm
Faculty Resources
Resources available at the CTL
Collaborate page:
– Learn Collaborate!
– 10 Habits of Highly Effective
Moderators
– Getting Started for Moderators
Quick Reference Guide
– Loading a PowerPoint file
– And more!
TopTenHabitsOfHighlyEffectiveModerators.pdf
Faculty Resources
Resources available at the CTL
Collaborate page:
– Learn Collaborate!
– 10 Habits of Highly Effective
Moderators
– Getting Started for Moderators
Quick Reference Guide
– Loading a PowerPoint file
– And more!
Getting Started for Moderators
Faculty Resources
Resources available at the CTL
Collaborate page:
– Learn Collaborate!
– 10 Habits of Highly Effective
Moderators
– Getting Started for Moderators
Quick Reference Guide
– Loading a PowerPoint file
– And more!
Loading a PowerPoint file
Faculty Resources
www.regent.edu/ctl > Collaborate tutorials
Resources available at the CTL
Collaborate page:
– Learn Collaborate!
– 10 Habits of Highly Effective
Moderators
– Getting Started for Moderators
Quick Reference Guide
– Loading a PowerPoint file
– And more!
http://www.regent.edu/admin/ctl/tutorials/collaborate.cfm
Faculty Resources: Let’s take a Web Tour of this page!
www.regent.edu/ctl > Collaborate tutorials
Let’s use Web Tour!
– I’ll start the web tour and go to:
www.regent.edu/ctl
– We’ll then click the
“Collaborate Tutorial” link
– You will all get to explore the
various links available on the
CTL Collaborate resources page
http://www.regent.edu/admin/ctl/tutorials/collaborate.cfm
Today’s Agenda: Overview of Blackboard Collaborate
• Greetings
–Meet the Center for Teaching & Learning Staff
• Bb Collaborate: A Quick Overview of the Literature
–Best practices support its use
–Student success is improved
–Enhances Face-to-Face Courses
• Faculty & Student Resources
• Let’s Play! Hands on Exploration of Bb Collaborate
• Feedback
http://1drv.ms/1fH6pJ2
Set the “while waiting” slide as the one students see when they enter
room
Next: Go over the “familiarize yourself” slide just as class starts
Explore 4 Areas of Collaborate!
1. Whiteboard
2. Participant Panel
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
New Page
Delete Page
Load Content
Slide Navigation
Whiteboard Toolbar
•
Assigning privileges/permissions
Lowering hand raises
Polling
– Polling type, publishing
responses, clearing responses
Breakout rooms
– Creating rooms
– Managing rooms
3. Application Sharing
4. Web Tour
• Sharing Desktop or Specific Windows
• Screen Capture
• Sharing Control
• Navigating & Managing
Explore Collaborate: Familiarize Yourself with Each Area
TITLE BAR
TOOL BAR
MAIN ROOM
MENU BAR
AUDIO &
VIDEO AREA
PARTICIPANT
PANEL
CHAT AREA
TOOL BAR
1. Explore the Whiteboard
Load Content
New Page
Delete Page
Whiteboard Toolbar
Slide Navigation
Whiteboard Toolbar
The Whiteboard Toolbar
2. Explore the Participant Panel
Smiley
Global Permissions
Away
Hand Raise
Poll Responses
Individual Permissions
2. Participant Panel: Faculty (Moderator) Dropdown menus
2. Participant Panel: Student Dropdown menu
3. Explore Application Share
• Allows you to share anything you have displayed
on your computer with your participants.
– Share the entire desktop OR
– Share a specific application you have open.
You can give a participant control of
the application so they can use it.
NOTE: Don’t worry. You can take
control back at anytime you want.
4. Explore Web Tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnXBdV0dYgs&t=1m34s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnXBdV0dYgs&t=1m34s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnXBdV0dYgs
Today’s Agenda: Overview of Blackboard Collaborate
• Greetings
–Meet the Center for Teaching & Learning Staff
• Bb Collaborate: A Quick Overview of the Literature
–Best practices support its use
–Student success is improved
–Enhances Face-to-Face Courses
• Faculty & Student Resources
• Let’s Play! Hands on Exploration of Bb Collaborate
• Feedback
Feedback on Today’s Session
1. Was this session helpful?
2. What was the most useful part of the session?
3. What would you like to know more about?
Feedback Later On
– Let us know is you see any difference in student engagement when
you use Blackboard Collaborate (end of semester evaluations).
– Please fill out the session evaluation you will receive.
– We’d love to hear from you! Email CTL any additional feedback on
this presentation or further questions you may have:
ogary@regent.edu
Connect with CTL
• Email CTL additional questions you may have regarding Bb Collaborate
or any other teaching and learning questions [ctl@regent.edu].
• Check out the CTL Scoop pages on topics such as:
– Disruptive Innovation in Higher Ed, Educational Technology Tools, Instructional
Design, Mobile Learning, MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses), Personal
Learning Network (PLNs), Social Networking for Education, and Teaching &
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References
About web-enhanced courses. (2013, August 21). PCC Online. Retrieved from http://online.pasadena.edu/faculty/face-to-face-course-support/aboutwebenhanced/
Allen, I. E., & Seaman, J. (2014, January). Grade change: Tracking online education in the United States. Sloan-C. Retrieved from
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/gradechange.pdf
Getting started for moderators quick reference guide. (2011). blackboardcollaborate.com. Retrieved from http://www.blackboard
.com/docs/documentation.htm?DocID=65006PDF
Gregory, J., & Salmon, G. (2013). Professional development for online university teaching. Distance Education, 34(3), 256–270. doi:10.1080/01587919.2013.835771
Hess, G. F. (2013). Blended courses in law school: The best of online and face-to-face learning? McGeorge Law Review, 45(1), 51–84.
Hudson, T. M., Knight, V., & Collins, B. C. (2012). Perceived Effectiveness of web conferencing software in the digital environment to deliver a graduate course in applied
behavior analysis. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 31(2), 27–39.
Loading a PowerPoint file quick reference guide. (2011). Blackboard. Retrieved from http://www.blackboard.com/docs
/documentation.htm?DocID=65005PDF
Macaulay, L., & Dyer, L. T. (2011, November 14). Interactive web conferencing brings big benefits to the online classroom. Faculty Focus. Retrieved March 7, 2014, from
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/interactive-web-conferencing-brings-big-benefits-to-the-online-classroom/
Top ten benefits of using Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing. (2011). blackboardcollaborate.com. Retrieved from https://www.blackboard.com/getdoc/7061b4b6-b2f2400f-9130-e3c2a9a947c1/Top-Ten-Benefits.aspx
Top ten habits of highly effective Blackboard Collaborate moderators. (2011). Blackboard. Retrieved from
http://www.regent.edu/admin/ctl/onlinetraining/Collaborate/BbCollaborate_Moderators_TopTenHabitsOfHighlyEffectiveModerators.pdf
Wells Fargo (Creator). ROFL (Poster) (2013, May 4). Wells Fargo “When people talk” commercial [Video] Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMs8YpvizwA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Bb Collaborate Essentials
A Center for Teaching & Learning Presentation
Facilitated by CTL Staff
Created by Olgy Gary, Sr. Instructional Designer
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