Attendance

Collaborate takes attendance and shares the information with moderators and instructors. Collaborate tracks when you join and leave a session. It also tracks how long you are present in the session on average. 

It doesn't matter if you join from a course, browser, phone, or a mobile app. Your attendance is tracked.

The only time your attendance is not tracked is if you join a session using Anonymous dial-in. When you use Anonymous dial-in, your phone is not paired with your account or session profile picture. This means that Collaborate doesn't know who you are and can't track you.


Raise your hand

Raise your hand to answer a question or get another moderator's attention. Select Raise Hand.

With your keyboard, press Alt + H.

Not raised

Raised


Status and feedback

Change your status to away or let others know how you feel about something said or shared in the session.

From the main stage, select your profile picture.

Feedbacks appear with an attendee's profile pictures on the main stage, in the Attendees panel, and in Chat. After 30 seconds the feedback disappears.

The Away status stays until you return and select I'm back!

A summary of the feedback selected appears under the panel heading. It shows the current feedback with a count of attendees using it.

You can sort the attendees by feedback in the Attendees panel. For example, if you want to know who is happy about what was said, select Happy under the Attendees heading. Only those who are happy appear.


Mark on shared content

When moderators share a blank whiteboard they want to collaborate with you. Use Collaborate’s editing and markup tools to participate.

Moderators may also choose to allow participants to mark up their shared file during a session in their session settings. Look for the editing tools to collaborate.

Use these tools to edit and mark up shared files and the whiteboard.

Tool Description
Select
Use the arrow to select an object on the whiteboard. After you select it you can resize, move, and delete it.
Pointer
Use the hand to point to different areas of the visible slide. Attendees see wherever you are pointing on the slide.
Pencil
Use the pencil to draw free hand on the slide.
Shapes
Use the Shapes icon to draw a rectangle, ellipse, or a straight line. Your choice.
Text
Type text on the slide with the "T".
Clear
Use the eraser to undo everything.
View controls
Show or hide your zoom, fit, and size controls.
View controls opened
Zoom in, Zoom out, Best Fit, Actual size

Best fit takes advantage of your screen real estate. Content adjusts to be completely viewable in the available area. It displays as large as possible while keeping the aspect ratio intact.

Slide navigation controls
Move to the previous our next slide.

With your keyboard, press Alt + Page Down to move back a slide and Alt + Page Up to move forward a slide. On a Mac, press Alt + Fn + Down Arrow or Alt + Fn + Up Arrow.

Select the slide name to view all slides.

Stop
Stop sharing content.
Source: Blackboard