Access your sandbox to complete these activities. You may share the sandbox with one or more colleagues. If you like to experiment on your own, don’t feel compelled to click on all of the links to see how things are done. They are there for support.
About Collaborate Ultra
As an instructor, you’re considered a “moderator” in Collaborate Ultra. Your course has a dedicated course room that is always open for use. Your students can use it even if you are not there unless you lock it. In addition, you can create scheduled sessions. This is useful when you want to ensure privacy (when having a one-on-one meeting with a student, for example) or if you want to create multiple sessions that run at the same time (for study groups, for example.)
For more info, read Session Settings and view the video below:
By default, you are hidden and muted after you complete the setup. Select the microphone and camera icons to begin full meeting participation.
Important Points:
For more information, read Share Content and Present in Sessions. You can also watch the video below about sharing PowerPoints in Collaborate.
Notes about chat:
If you’re the only person in the session, it’s hard to see how most of the options work. If you didn’t follow the directions above to chat with yourself, you might want to do it now. Otherwise, these step by step instructions show you everything with pictures, so check them out. During our second Collaborate session, I’ll promote everyone to moderator status so that you can try out the controls for real.
Make sure you know how to:
Using breakout groups moves students into spaces that are separate from the main room so they can collaborate in small groups. They are wonderful for increasing student engagement! Each breakout group has its own private audio, video, whiteboard, application sharing, and chat. You (moderators) can move from room to room to observe and facilitate. Watch the video about using breakout groups:
Share files with breakout groups
Move from one group to another and back to the main room
Move attendees to another group
Save files from breakout groups
For step by step instructions, read Breakout Groups.
Notes about breakout groups
I like to create a poll for users to take when they first join a session. It’s a good conversation starter while you’re waiting for all of your attendees to show up.
For step by step instructions, read about Polls or watch the video below: