Teaching Tip: How to create a scheduled session in Collaborate
March 10, 2015
Collaborate is a web conference system that is part of the Blackboard Learning Management
System. Each semester when the UAF Office of Information Technology creates your course
shell, a connection to Collaborate is also created. Collaborate provides a system
to meet with your students synchronously no matter where the students or you are located.How to create a scheduled session
- Log in to Blackboard
- Under “Course Management,” click “Course Tools”
- Click “Blackboard Collaborate”
- Click “Create Session”
- Give the session a name
- Set the time and date for the session
- Allow at least 15 minutes for early entry into session (up to one hour may be allowed for early entry)
for more custom options available to you in Collaborate.
-- Teaching Tip by Dallas Budden, UAF eLearning instructional designer