How do I know when there are new chat comments?

Collaborate uses notifications that appear on your screen to let you know what's happening in your session. These notifications tell you when there are new chat comments.

The notification stays on the screen for a few seconds then disappears. It tells you if you have a new chat message, if there are more than one, and what chat channel the comment is in.

If you have the chat panel open, you'll see a new comment alert.

You can also see when someone is typing in chat. Open the Chat panel and see if someone is about to ask a question or make a comment.

One person is typing

Several people are typing

Chat emoji

The emoji pack for Collaborate with the Ultra experience supports diversified emojis and Unicode 8 characters.

Use one of five supported skin tones on any human emoji. Add underscore, tone, and the supported tone number (1 through 5) to your emoji when typing. Don't forget the colons on either end of your emoji text.

Example: :wave_tone5:

Chat history

Collaborate's chat history only has 50 messages displayed at any given time. Scroll through the messages or use the hidden keyboard controls at the top of the Chat panel if you use a keyboard to navigate.

Chat history keyboard controls

Use the keyboard controls at the top of the Chat panel to move between messages. The keyboard controls are only available after messages have been posted in Chat and are only available with keyboard navigation.

  1. From the text entry field in the Chat panel press Shift + Tab to open the keyboard controls. Or from the Chat with menu at the top of the panel press Tab.
  2. By default, the focus is on the Next chat message control. Press Shift + Tab to find the Previous chat message and First chat message controls. Press Tab to find the Last chat message control. Collaborate's chat history only has 50 messages displayed at any given time.
  3. Press Space Bar to activate the control and listen to the message.
  4. Press Tab to move through the controls and return to the chat text entry field.

Chat messages in recordings

If a session is being recorded, chat messages in the Everyone channel are being recorded as well. Private messages and chat messages in breakout groups are not recorded.


Source: Blackboard