How To Download Videos From Blackboard Collaborate

Don't but tell them. Show them.

The Ultra feel of Blackboard Collaborate makes it easy to share your noesis. You can upload content, including PowerPoint^® presentations, or share your desktop screen to show more details.

Open the Collaborate panel and select Share Content to start sharing and collaborating with your attendees.

Not sure where the Collaborate console is? Jump to Discover Your Way Around.

You tin can upload multiple presentations in a session as long equally the total file size is 125 MB or less.

Share application

Share your desktop or a software application to teach students nigh a topic. Whenever y'all move through the application or desktop, your students automatically follow along.

When y'all share your desktop or application information technology is seen by everybody in the live session and anybody viewing the recording after. Brand certain to close any windows and applications you don't want others to meet before starting to share.

Don't miss any chat messages while presenting. See chat alerts when in some other awarding like PowerPoint. Select the Browser popular-upwardly notification in your notification settings.

Application sharing is not currently supported on mobile devices or for screen readers in Blackboard Collaborate. If y'all are using a mobile device or screen reader, you can share files and a blank whiteboard with your attendees. You can't share an application.

Share audio and video streams and files

Employ Chrome^TM to share audio and video.

Share video from sites similar YouTube^TM. Or, open video and audio files you accept on your desktop in a new Chrome tab to share them.

From a Chrome browser, open up the Collaborate console and select the Share Content tab.
Select Share Awarding/Screen.
Select the Chrome Tab choice.
If y'all are on Windows, you lot tin likewise select Entire Screen.
Select the Share audio check box.
Choose the tab you want to share from the list.
Select Share.

Share camera

The Share camera selection gives you the ability to share more than 1 photographic camera. Share your video and share another camera connected to your computer. Students can see you lot and anything else yous want to evidence. Yous're only express past the number of cameras and USB ports in your computer.

The video volition appear backwards to you lot in the preview. This is normal. Your video volition appear correctly to others in the session and in recordings. The video won't announced backwards to other attendees or in recordings. Video is but mirrored in the preview window.

Camera equally content on mobile devices

Moderators can as well share a camera on their mobile device equally content on the screen. When attendees share their video using using the main tools along the bottom of the screen, their front facing camera is used. This power to share the camera every bit content on a mobile device ways that moderators tin can now choose to use their back or rear facing camera as well.

Merely ane camera tin can exist shared at a fourth dimension from a mobile device. Whatsoever video already shared will end to show the video from the new camera.

Share files

Upload JPEG and PNG images, PDF files, or PowerPoint presentations of 60MB or lower to your session. You can upload multiple presentations, still the total size allowed is 125 MB or lower for whatever detail session.

Limit PDFs and presentations to 500 pages or slides.

Screen reader users tin access text from PowerPoint and PDF files shared in the session. This provides an easy way to follow forth as slides change. Moderators and presenters must select Share Files and upload the files to Collaborate for screen readers to access the text.

Use fonts mutual to both Windows and Mac devices for the all-time viewing experience. Other fonts may result in differences in spacing and line breaks for some users and in the recording. Use Helvetica, Arial, Courier, Georgia, Bear on, Open Sans, Tahoma, Times New rRoman, or Verdana for the best feel for anybody.

Select Add Files Here or elevate a file into the box to upload it. Select Share At present when you're set up for students to meet the file.

You tin prep for class at the starting time of the week, or fifty-fifty at the get-go of the semester! Join a session and load the files you desire to share. These files stay in the session until deleted by a moderator. Load them once and reuse them every bit oft as y'all desire.

Annotations and edits made on the files are cleared when the session occurrence closes.

If you can't join a session you want to upload files to, edit the session and change the time to start now. Upload the files. Don't forget to change the outset fourth dimension back to the original time! Attendees won't see the changes unless you lot transport them another invitation.

You can cull to allow participants to mark upward your shared file during a session in Session Settings. Open the Interact panel and select My Settings. Get to Session Settings and brand your choice.

If you are recording your session, allow 8 seconds for the recording to include your shared file before moving on.

Remove and rename files

If you want to delete or rename a file, go to Share Files in the Collaborate panel. Find the file and open up the File options menu. Select the Remove file or Rename file.

What almost PowerPoint slides?

Y'all can share PowerPoint files straight in Collaborate or share the PowerPoint application.

How do you know which to use? Let us help y'all make up one's mind.

Share files: For the all-time overall experience, utilise Share files.
Custom created PowerPoint themes may not catechumen properly or they may neglect to upload and/or catechumen at all. If you have trouble, catechumen the presentation to PDF and upload the PDF file to the session. You could as well share your total desktop of PowerPoint application.
- When uploaded each slide is optimized and so all attendees can view quality slides no matter their network connection.
- With Share files you tin upload more than than i presentation at any time to accept gear up for your session.
- Uploaded files stay in the session until deleted by a moderator. This makes information technology easier to render to a slide if you need to review.
- When you upload your presentation you can use Collaborate editing tools with your slides.
- You can also choose to permit participants to marking up your shared slides during a session.
- Screen reader users can access text from PowerPoint and PDF files shared in the session. This provides an easy way to follow forth as slides change.
  Moderators and presenters must select Share Files and upload the files to Collaborate for screen readers to access the text.
More on sharing PowerPoint files
Share awarding: Utilise Share application, if you have animations in your presentation or if you are presenting alive in a physical infinite and online at the same fourth dimension.
More on sharing the PowerPoint application

Share PowerPoint files

Select Share Files when using PowerPoint presentations of 60MB or lower. This gives you and your attendees the best experience.

Upload your PowerPoint and select Share Now. A slide navigator panel opens showing y'all all of your slides. Select a slide to beginning sharing it. Select the presentation name to open up the slide navigator console again at whatever time.

If your presentation has animations, share the PowerPoint application instead of uploading the PowerPoint files.

Share the PowerPoint awarding

If yous want, y'all can run your presentation in PowerPoint and share the awarding in Interact.

Make sure your presentation is set upwards and running on the screen you desire to share before selecting Share application in Collaborate.

If you lot can, keep your Collaborate window visible so you can monitor chat while presenting. Or ask another moderator to monitor chat for you.

For the best experience, don't use Normal or Full screen views for your presentations. These views can brand it challenging for you and your attendees to encounter everything. Instead, share your slides in a resizable window.

In PowerPoint open the Slide Prove menu and select Set up Up Show.
Select Browsed by individual (window) and select Ok.
Get-go your presentation.
Resize the presentation window to the size y'all want. Y'all're at present prepare to share your slides in Collaborate.
Select Share application and the PowerPoint application or screen you want to share.

Sentry a video nigh sharing PowerPoints in Collaborate

Video: Sharing PowerPoint Files in Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra experience explains the ii means you can share your PowerPoint presentations.

Share whiteboard

Interact with your students using the whiteboard. Open a blank whiteboard to draw or just jot downwards notes.

Utilise your device or reckoner screen capture tool to save the whiteboard when you are done.

You decide in Sessions Settings if participants tin can use the whiteboard and tools along with you during a session. Open up the Collaborate panel and select My Settings. Go to Session Settings and make your option.

Note tools

Interact Annotation Tools

When files or a blank whiteboard are shared in a session, you tin utilize annotation tools to edit and mark up the document during the live session. Y'all'll find the annotation tools at the top of the screen. These tools are available for both the moderator and participant roles unless the moderator turns it off in Session Settings.

Moderators tin can share an annotated file in the main room with breakout groups. More on sharing files with breakout groups.

Certificate view settings

Pan: Move the whiteboard or shared file on the page.
Zoom and Fit: Zoom in and out of the page or arrange the view to fit the page or width.

Annotations

Drawing, Brush, and Eraser: Depict freehand on the folio with various colors, thickness, and opacity. Select the eraser to remove annotations. You can erase parts of a freehand cartoon with the eraser or select the Delete icon to delete the whole drawing.
Text: Add text direct on the page. You tin motility, edit, and change the text and select the font, size, alignment, and color of the text.
Shapes: Choose Line, Pointer, Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, and Polyline. Each shape has its own settings to modify the color, width, opacity, and more.
Clear Annotations: Annotations are saved in the session. You can share something new, go to a new slide, or finish sharing. The annotations remain. Moderators tin can use Clear Annotations to delete all annotations from all pages.
Highlighter: Select areas on a shared file to highlight. As you lot highlight text on the page, an additional menu opens. You tin highlight, strikethrough, underline, squiggle, or comment on the highlighted section. The highlighter is but available on shared files. Information technology's not available on the whiteboard.
Upload a blank file of several pages to use a multi-folio whiteboard.
Arrow: Guide your attendees' attention to the main points of your content. Select Pointer from the toolbar and start moving your cursor to what you want to highlight. All attendees will see your movements in existent time. To stop pointing, select theArrow push again or any other tool.
Just moderators and presenters have a pointer.
Clear annotations and Stop sharing: Only moderators and presenters tin clear annotations and terminate sharing.

Download whiteboard and annotated documents

Session attendees tin can download, in PDF format, any full file (including annotations) or any whiteboard shared.

To allow downloading whiteboard or files:

Bring together a session.
Go to the right panel, and select the Share Content tab.
Cull to share a whiteboard or an uploaded file from the Share File option.
One time the content is shared, the Download button volition announced on the top toolbar.
- The Download push is bachelor in Primary Room as well as Breakout Groups.

Files uploaded from the Share File pick can simply exist downloaded once shared. If you lot don't want attendees to download files, share a specific application or screen.

If you desire to share only some content of a presentation, utilise the 'Hide slide' option in PowerPoint^® - or any similar tool - and upload the file to share. Attendees will be able to download the presentation but will non encounter the hidden slides.