Blackboard Collaborate Basic Moderator (Four-Part Workshop Series)

Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate Live!) is a live web conferencing platform that allows you to facilitate interactive instruction, help, and meetings to support a 21st-century teaching and learning environment. Features include two-way audio, multi-point video, interactive whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, breakout rooms, session recording and more.

During these four hands-on workshops (parts 1-4), you will learn about Blackboard Collaborate and how to use its tools to facilitate a class session or meeting online. After successfully completing all four parts and facilitating your own session (details for Capstone Project are below), you will be given your own Blackboard Collaborate session to use for the entire semester.

Capstone Project

Create and facilitate a five-minute session in Blackboard Collaborate of a topic of your choice that demonstrates using the tools in the following ways below. (If you choose to include the optional tasks*, you may have up to a 10-minute session.):

1. Demonstrate giving and taking away participant privileges (e.g. microphone, whiteboard, video, etc.).
2. Demonstrate loading a PowerPoint presentation and/or whiteboard file to the Whiteboard.
3. Demonstrate the use of the Whiteboard tools (e.g. pointer tool, text tool, pen tool, eraser tool).
4. Demonstrate the use of the polling tool (i.e. yes/no and/or multiple choice) with the audience and publish the results to the whiteboard; then clear all polling responses from the Participants window.
5. *Demonstrate the use of the whiteboard tools by adding an image and/or clip art.
6. *Demonstrate the use of Breakout Rooms – create them, move participants into and out of Breakout Rooms, move yourself (Moderator) from room to room.
7. *Demonstrate the use of Application Share – start and stop Application Sharing, give and take away control of the application from a participant.
8. *Demonstrate the use of the Web Tour tool including publishing a URL to the chat.

*optional but recommended

Registration

Sign up for dates/times by clicking here. We will try to accommodate everyone. Four dates/times must be scheduled. Each session is 1.5 hrs.

Workshop Content

Part 1

Moderator User Agreement Form

Fill out the user agreement form by clicking here.

Getting Started

1. Visit the Getting Started page to setup.
2. Watch the online orientation video
   

   

3. Participant's link to the Training Room: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2009459&password=M.6D90D5405251299645694362DC6F9D

Part 1 Topics

[Download Part 1 slides (.pdf)]

• Participant experience (Refer to Participant's Guide.)
• Participant Panel
  • Permissions and activity and status indicators
  • Profile
  • Management
  • Polling
• Chat Panel
  • Text chatting
  • Conversation tabs
• Audio & Video Panel
  • Talk - volume, audio permissions, simultaneous talkers
  • Video - preview, stream, simultaneous video
• Whiteboard
  • Load PPT file
  • Create a polling slide and moderate your polling activity
• Recording

Part 2

Part 2 Topics

[Download Part 2 slides (.pdf)]

• Whiteboard
• Application Sharing
• Web Tour
• Breakout Rooms
• File Transfer

Part 3

Part 3 Topics

• Finish any topics missed from Part 2.
• Dry-run practice sessions from workshop participants as Moderators.

Part 4

Part 4 Topics

• Final Capstone sessions from each workshop participant as a Moderator.
• Feedback and final thoughts 

Resources

Visit the Training Materials for Participants and Moderators page for additional resources.

Workshop Survey

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