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Instructional Technology & Design Office

itd@support.lis.illinois.edu

217-244-4903 or 800-377-1892

Easy A+Presenting in Blackboard Collaborate 12

AGENDA

• Audio/Video

• Slides

• Whiteboard

• Application Sharing

• Web Tour

Before you start

Always run audio setup wizard

Audio/Video

Headsets

Check out http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/itdweb/bbcollaborate/recommendations.php for links

Slides

Moderator privileges

Less is more

Importing slides

Animation won’t work

Image quality diminishes

Links don’t work

Send ITD your slides ahead of time (at least 24 hrs)

To: help@support.lis.illinois.edu or itd@support.lis.illinois.edu

Subject line: Course, TA Name, Date of Presentation, Your

Name

Slide advance

Slide selector

Follow box

Show page explorer

Explorer Mode

WHITEBOARD TRICKS

Whiteboard Tools

What’s your favorite book?

Favorite travel destination?

APPLICATION SHAREFor Skill Based Demonstration

Application sharing

App share icon

Application sharing

Demonstrate applications

Entire Desktop or Single

Application/Program

No sound

Yellow rectangle

Does not exist for Mac OS Lion and

above

Move programs or get Grey boxes

Keep the application clear!!

WEB TOUR

For Video, Audio and Interactive Use of the Internet

Web Tour

Explore websites Does not run simultaneously on participants’ computers Works well for media websites with audio/video (ie

YouTube and Vimeo) May need to “Open in Browser”

Other Blackboard tools: Breakout Rooms

Great for larger class discussions

Create rooms in BBC Menu > Tools >

Breakout Rooms > Create Breakout

Room

Must choose to ‘Allow Participants to

Move Themselves’ in menu for class

to sort selves

Send individuals to room by right

clicking on their name in Participant

window > Send to Breakout Room

Breakout Rooms Cont.

Chat Archive does not save in rooms

Can rename rooms as necessary

Return participants to Main Room option

Whiteboard can be imported to Main Room

More Tools

Timer (Lowercase I at the top right of the

Whiteboard Window)

Send Announcement to all Rooms: Tools >

Chat > Send Announcement

Polling: Tools > Polling

QUESTIONS?

Questions? Contact us at help@support.lis.illinois.edu

Thanks for taking your time to come to our workshop!

Blackboard Presentation Tutorial:http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/itdweb/bbcollaborate/presenters.php

GSLIS Drop In Room for more practice:http://go.illinois.edu/gslis_dropin_room

Best Practices:http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/itdweb/bbcollaborate/presenting_collaborate.pdf

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