Blackboard Collaborate: Virtual Classroom

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Blackboard provides a real-time communication tool for video conference called Collaborate Ultra. You can see and talk with your professor and fellow students during a scheduled time period. This form of conversation is also called "synchronized" communication, meaning people, from different locations, log on at the same time to conduct a "virtual conversation". Many Live Remote Online Class (LRON) classes use Blackboard Collaborate to host class meetings. Blackboard Collaborate functions well using Google Chrome browser. Using other browsers on Collaborate may result in errors.

In MxCC courses, you access Blackboard Collaborate by clicking on Virtual Classroom on the Course Menu.

1. Click on the Course Room link and click on Join Course Room.

2. When you are prompt "us.bbcollab.com wants to use your microphone", click on Allow. This is to allow Collaborate to access your microphone. Test your microphone and click on Yes, Audio is Working.

3. When you are prompt "us.bbcollab.com wants to use your camera", click on Allow. This is to allow Collaborate to access your camera. Test your microphone and click on Yes, Video is Working.

4. You may go through a tutorial to learn Collaborate. Or Click on Later to pass the tutorial page.

5. Click on Close under Tell me about Collaborate.

6. Now you entered the Collaborate course room. in Defaulty, the microphone and video are turned off. Click on the video idon to show your video and click on the microphone icon to unmute yourself.

7. There are two ways to leave the course room:

(1) Click on Open Session Menu at upper left corner and select Leave Session.

(2) Click on My Status and Setting icon at the bottom of the screen and select Leave Session.

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