Blackboard Collaborate Ultra resources

A collection of resources for using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra in online teaching

Start Screen for a Collaborate Ultra Class & Share with student about the tools

Here is a 'getting started' for Collaborate Ultra that can be displayed at the start of a class to show students the tools. Download your customisable version here.

How to do Multiple Choice and Yes/No polls in Collaborate Ultra:

Increase engagement with students during a Live Streamed Tutorial in Collaborate Ultra when you the MCQs and Yes/No polling options. See here for a guide on how to use these features - here.

Student Resources:

Here's a guide for students to find previously recorded classes in Collaborate Ultra, feel free to use it & customise your version here.

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A Digital Mindset

A Digital Mindset: Let’s not close the digital box on what we have learned Who would have thought this year would turn out like this? In January this year we were blissful unaware of what was going to hit us. We had the usual excitement prepping for the start of Term 1, we had visions of walking into lectures theatres and tutorial rooms to eager to learn students. In early February this cheerful vision was starting to get turn to concern, we were hearing from students in China about, then called coronavirus, and that areas inside of China were being locked down. This became more of a concern with Australia following the USA in closing its borders to China. How would the students get here? We examined the impacts and reassessed our strategy. The first two weeks were to go online for all courses and consultation (office hours) placed online for the School of Accounting. This online access was a brief window to allow for students to arrive into Australia quickly via third party cou

Zoom Lectures can be fun! For Term 2 at UNSW I decided to make the Zoom lectures fun by using themed backgrounds. I was inspired by fellow academics on Twitter, in particular Dr Scott Chadwick (of UTS) - Twitter link here . I could see Scott was having a lot of fun and his students at UTS enjoyed his Zoom background themes. I gathered as my research for backgrounds a list of all of Scott's backgrounds (see here ). If you would like to get started I collected some of the same backgrounds (see here ). This idea of Zoom backgrounds for teaching lectures resonated with me because it looked fun. I was aware as well of some academics who tried to rope in their students into themes (remaining nameless) and that this didn't go down well. I think this is a valuable lesson as well. It guided me towards an approach of - "I enjoy backgrounds in Zoom. I'm going to have fun with this." To date students have responded very positively. Many during the "Star Wars"

Netiquette Two slides on Netiquette - these two slide are customisable - can be used to start a conversation about behaviour expectations during online classes. Download via this link: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12366296.v1

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