I’m planning to be online for a webinar and we’ll be practicing beforehand on Blackboard Collaborate with the particulars at the bottom of the page. You are welcome to join as a guest and see how it works. The room will probably be empty if you just pick a random time…

We will record the webinar, and your input may be part of future presentations. If you want to remain fully anonymous, use a pseudonym, mute the audio and video, and interact with typed comments, although the experience will probably be better if you choose to be more interactive.

Notes on Using Blackboard Collaborate

(things I figured out while testing…)

Chat by opening the collaboration panel at the lower right. This will show you who’s here and what their status is.

Interact using the control icons at the bottom of the screen to raise your hand, or let us know you’re confused.

The moderator can share by default. For a participant to share, the moderator needs to make them the presenter using the attendees pane of the collaborate panel. If you want to share content from your own screen, setting the sharing permissions may require you to quit your browser and then re-enter the session by following the same invite link again. You should only have to do this once. I’m told Chrome or Firefox work better than Safari. My notes are based on using Chrome on a Mac.

Sharing your full screen works better. Sharing a Chrome browser tab seems to cut off the edges of the window in different ways with different window geometries, same with other application windows. Sharing the entire screen behaves better and supports switching between multiple virtual screens on MacOS. ZOOM so others can read on small screens!

Webinar Session

Share link to this page in the book via chat. Paste this in your browser address bar ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/rwsnotes/chapter/2020-02-19-webinar/

Make sure everybody has a pressbooks account.

Tour an example page.

Create a book.

Set up the book for engineering content.

Create a multi-level book structure with parts, chapters, and first level headings to create a rich table of contents.

Add some engineering content like words, pictures, equations, and videos.

Link to other content pressbooks doesn’t allow. Could be code, etc. under Github, any files you like with Google Drive, or just about anything else you can describe with a URL.

Practice Session Particulars

You are invited to attend the following Blackboard Collaborate session:

Invite others to join:

Send this guest link to your attendees: