Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Session - Create and Attendance
This document will explain how to create a Blackboard Collaborate session and how it will take and populate attendance automatically for you in blackboard.
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Session
Creating Session
Attendance automatically (automatic attendance and records it in the Blackboard grade center)
1. In your Blackboard course, go to Tools and click Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and select “Create Session” and give it a name and check any settings you need.
Guest Access and role for a guest lecturer (this will bypass Bb authentication and guest will log into collaborate room directly.
Start and end dates and time ** (NOTE: Do not choose No end date for Attendance).
2. Next move to the Purple Cog Wheel tab, the Session Settings and chose the settings you desire.
NOTE: if you are going to allow students to download your recordings, select this setting now!
A new addition is the “Profanity filter” option at the bottom.
3. Attendance is the last icon, let Bb Collaborate automatically take attendance and record it in the grade center for you!
The most important setting is “Share attendance information with LMS
*A tip about the setting, Required time in a session, I set mine for 75% to allow for students who may enter in and out due to connection issues (remember in the session reports you can verify how many times a student did re-enter your class).
When finished hit “Create”
NOTE: If you do not see your session, click the session range drop down arrow.
Attendance Note: Go to the Course Control Panel, Course Tools to find Bb Collaborate Attendance.