Collaborate for Frostburg Faculty Librarians
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Blackboard Collaborate can be used for library instruction in online courses, recording sessions for later viewing, and facilitating online meetings. It has an audio/video panel, participant panel to monitor users and assign permissions, a chat function, screen sharing tools, and a content area that can display a whiteboard, shared applications, or web links. Sessions can be requested independently or set up within a Blackboard course, and last 365 days. The tool allows interactive collaboration and content sharing between instructors and remote students or groups.
Collaborate for Frostburg Faculty Librarians
- 1. Blackboard Collaborate for Frostburg State University Faculty Librarians Dr. Se叩n Henry, Aug. 20, 2014
- 2. What Collaborate can do for us: Empower library instruction for online courses Record instruction & training sessions for on-demand viewing Facilitate webconferencing, online consortial meetings, or even search committee interviews
- 3. Covered in this presentation: Collaborate screen layout Functionalities (described by screen layout feature) Participant permissions Setting up a Collaborate Session
- 4. Collaborate Screen Layout: Audio/Video Panel Press Talk to use mic (USB headset recommended) Additionally press Video if using webcam Video box can be minimized
- 5. Collaborate Screen Layout: Participants Panel See who is in the session Grant permissions to participants Elicit participant responses (raise hand, polling, emoticons, etc.)
- 6. Collaborate Screen Layout: Chat Panel Real time chat, Q & A among participants, plus a private channel between multiple moderators
- 7. Collaborate Screen Layout: Tools Menu Application Sharing: share screen from specific application or share entire desktop Audio : adjust microphone and speaker settings Moderator : grant or take away moderator privileges (easier to do from participant panel) Recorder (appears with moderator permissions): Stop/start recording of session Telephony access telephone number of session to distribute to participants who need to call in Video adjust your video settings
- 8. Collaborate Screen Layout: Content Area The main screen for sharing and displaying content via three modes (toggled between three buttons circled above): Whiteboard Application Sharing Web Tour
- 9. Collaborate Screen Layout: Whiteboard Whiteboard (default): A nice area to load PowerPoints, and you can even doodle on them in real time on the screen using the circled tools!
- 10. Collaborate Screen Layout: Application Sharing Application Sharing permits on-screen sharing of one particular app (MS Word, Firefox browser, etc.) or your entire computer desktop for full functionality (recommended for library instruction) Application Sharing may require resizing screens for best visibility by participants, especially if the Collaborate side panels are not minimized
- 11. Collaborate Screen Layout: Web Tour Web Tour fills the Content Area nicely, but is not recommended for library instruction Web Tour allows participants to interactively share their own webpages and follow the moderators links, but not if any links open in new browser windows or tabs!
- 12. Participant Permissions As Moderator, its easy to grant permissions to participants by right-clicking their names on the participants panel and bringing up the menu! You can: Give full moderator privileges, or permissions to specific features like whiteboard or application sharing Mute participants whose microphones are creating fuzzy feedback, etc.
- 13. Two ways to set up a Collaborate session: Request a session from the FSU website: http://www.frostburg.edu/bbcollab/requestfor m/ Create a session inside your Blackboard Learn classroom Pros and Cons of both discussed on the upcoming final slides! BTW, did I mention that a Collaborate Session lasts 365 days?
- 14. Request a Collaborate session via Online Form Pros for requesting a Collaborate session via http://www.frostburg.edu/bbcollab/requestform/: Ideal for one-shot library instruction for online classes, flexible Web conferencing, or recording training sessions for on-demand viewing No need to have a Blackboard Learn classroom Con: Open to anybody with link access (less secure)
- 15. Request a Collaborate session via Blackboard Learn: Pros: Collaborate sessions can be set up autonomously Moderator permissions for participants can be set up in advance Session more secure Cons: Must have a Blackboard Learn Classroom Collaborate participants restricted only to students/instructors/teaching assistants enrolled in the Blackboard Learn classroom or guests invited privately by email
- 16. Questions? Contact Se叩n at shenry@frostburg.edu Consult campus Collaborate support at http://www.frostburg.edu/bbcollab/