GBS L&K: Learning Enablement Team

Blackboard Collaborate:
Presenter Instruction

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Pre-Session Setup Tips

1. Run your Audio Wizard:
Make sure you can hear and speak clearly.
Click on the icon shown or go to Tools> Audio>
Audio Setup Wizard

2. Slow Internet Connection?

Adjust your connection speed accordingly.
Go to Edit> Preferences> Session. Set your
speed to 28.8 Kbps Dialup, and Always in the
Prompt for speed box

3. Whos in this session?

You will need to sign the roster to confirm
your attendance. The event facilitator will
provide details of this via text chat
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Welcome to Blackboard Collaborate

Emoticons / Step away / Raise hand / Polling

Activate / Deactive Mic

Text chat

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Setting Connection Speed

Edit Preferences Session Connection

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Who does what

Leader / Facilitator

Presenter

Soundchecks

Starting / stopping recording

Introduction

Troubleshooting

Timekeeping

Microphone distribution

Clearing Yes/Nos & raised

hands

Monitoring text chat

Helping presenters wherever

possible

Helping participants
wherever possible

Navigating slides
Delivering content
Using Blackboard
Collaborate
interactivity tools
Responding to
participants
Engaging participants
Informing
Educating
Amusing
Inspiring

Participant

Listening & Learning

Interacting
(whenever possible)
Contributing (when
permitted)
Acknowledging
presenter(s)
Giving feedback

Reminder:
There are more Leader / Facilitator responsibilities than 5noted here this is just
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a summary
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The Blackboard Collaborate

interface (for Leaders)

Whiteboard / Application share / Web tour

Content loading

Recording control

Audio wizard &

additional tools

Audio/Video tools
Slide options

Page options
Facilitator tools

Timer / info

Response buttons
Participant
area

Text chat area

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Participant permission controls

Media Window
Markup tools
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Audio tips
Voice over IP tool: Telephone not required!
Headset recommended. Failing that - your PC microphone & speakers

Before the session:

Always run the Audio Setup Wizard

Or

go to Tools > Audio > Audio Setup Wizard

Please check
your master
volume settings
on your computer
each time

Reminder: a teleconference line can be integrated in Blackboard7 Collaborate

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Voice Communication

To activate your
microphone
Remember: Click
again to switch it off
when youre finished
talking!

Audio indicator informs

you if you or someone
else is speaking

The blue mic icon beside

your name means your
microphone is activated

Reminder: as best practice, only one microphone should be active

at a time to avoid
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background noise or feedback.

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Loading Slides into the

Classroom
Load
slides by clicking on the
button

Notes:

The upload speed depends on the file size

10 MB file size limit

Powerpoint animations are not supported

Other file types are supported experiment with

these

MS-Office is on the way out get ready for Apache

Open Office

Reminder: See important notes later on about slide viewing problems

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Navigating slides: Three

options:
1.

Use the forward and backward arrows to move forward

or backward a slide respectively

2.

Click on the slide title on the drop down box in the

agenda area

3.

Open Page Explorer from the options menu and double

click on a slide thumbnail

Reminder: as best practice, the person speaking should navigate

the slides
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Browsing slides without

showing the audience

You can look through the slides yourself by selecting the

Explore Mode icon

Audience members will be left on the current page as

you browse

Click on the icon again to return to normal slide viewing

mode
The icon turns red while you are in Explore Mode

Note: a red border around the whiteboard indicates that you are11on Explore Mode

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Application sharing

The Application Sharing tool enables anyone inside Blackboard Collaborate

share a remote application.

To activate: click on the Appshare icon at the top of the media window

Reminder: Control of the application can be given to any12participant

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Recommended screen setup

during application share
Stop / Pause
appshare, or take a
snapshot

Keep the Blackboard

Collaborate left-hand
panel visible so you
can see your audience
Resize your
application to fit the
rest of your screen

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Application sharing best

practice
Read
and practice in your own time:

Use with caution requires higher bandwidth

Ensure your appshare settings are correct to cope with this as best as
possible

Make sure the application is running on your desktop before

launching

We recommend sharing specific application(s) rather than the

whole desktop

Ask your participants if they can see your application ok

Advise them they can scroll left, right, up & down, or scale to
fit

The Blackboard Collaborate left hand panel should remain on the

left of your screen

You should resize your application to fit the rest of the available
window space

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File transfer

The file transfer tool allows you to load a file into the
Blackboard Collaborate session and send it to all the
participants.

Same as the multimedia function, Files should be kept

relatively small so as not to have any issues during the
Blackboard Collaborate session.

Once the file has been loaded, learners will receive a

prompt to save the file

You also have an option to hand out specific files at

different points in time

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See options in File Transfer Library.

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