Collaborate Training
New Web Conferencing Tool ‘Collaborate’ Workshop
City Colleges of Chicago has made available a new online web
conferencing tool. The new web conferencing tool, Collaborate, allows
you to host or participate in a web conference anywhere, anytime.
This tutorial is designed for any employee who uses or must schedule Web conferencing sessions.
Collaborate Web conferencing tool supports the following features:
- Meet with anyone world-wide. No CCC account required
- Live video for up to six cameras
- Live audio for up to six simultaneous speakers
- Whiteboard for PowerPoint and images
- Annotation
- Text editor
- Web tours
- Application sharing
- Polling
- Chat
- Recordings for playback on demand
How to schedule a Collaborate session
You have two options:
- If you have access to a Blackboard course for your department or group, follow the instructions below labeled "How To Schedule a Collaborate Session Using Blackboard".
- Or use the "Get Started Online button on the previous page and we will schedule it for you.
First Time Users:
Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing System Test and Help Files
- Check your System
Requirements - Test Blackboard
Collaborate web conferencing in the Configuration Room - Access
Training resources - Learn more
about Blackboard Collaborate
How To Schedule a Collaborate Session Using Blackboard
- Log in to Blackboard at https://ccc.blackboard.com
- Locate and enter your course by clicking the course
link - From Control Panel expand Course Tools
- Click Blackboard Collaborate.
-
If you don’t see Blackboard Collaborate
Expand Customization > Click Tool Availability >
Check off Blackboard Collaborate
Scheduling Manager >Click submit and return to step 3. - Click Create Session
- Enter Session Title
- Set all options as needed
- If this is a regularly scheduled meeting check Repeat
Session - Check Allow In-Session Invite
- Scroll to the top and click Content Area
- Check the folder where you would like to place the link
to the session for participants. - You may want to create a special fold called
Video Conferencing. - Scroll to the top and click Participants
- In section 2 click Allow Unregistered Guests
-
Click
Submit
To invite guests you must generate a guest link
- Mouse over the new session
- Click the down arrow chevron
- Click Guest Link
- Copy the URL from the blue box and email it to all guests
Start your session 15 minutes before the scheduled start time
- Control Panel
- Blackboard Collaborate
- Your session is now a link
- Click the session link
- You will be prompted to save a file
- Save it in a location you are familar with, (Desktop or Downloads),
- Double click the file to launch
- You will see Java 6 or 7
- It may take a few minutes to launch. Do not click the file again
- Use the link to the right to practice managing a session
If you used the "Get Started Online" button on the previous page:
- You will recieve two links via email.
- One for you as the moderator
- One for guests
To learn how to manage a session use the Collaborate Moderator’s Hanbook link to the right