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...

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

1st Zoom Lecture for ACCT1511 1B Term 2

Hi Everyone, Turn off for the "Waiting Room" option, this way students can come in to the meeting straight away, no need to click 'admit'. Turn off for the "Only authenticated users can join: Sign in to Zoom" because around 10 students couldn't do this sign in, I'm not sure why that this. This way any student can click on the link, then type in their own name themselves. You can make a person a co-host in advance - if they are going to be lecturing as well on the course. You can do this by copying in their email address into the 'co-host' box down the bottom of the "Advanced Options". See my intro slides for the first lecture here . I just taught the very 1st Zoom Lecture for ACCT1511 1B Term 2 this morning and it worked great! Just some tips for you - when you create the Zoom Meeting in the "Advanced Options" (see attached) for the meeting make sure you: I had about 10 students who sent me an em...

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