Users can be moderators, presenters, participants, and captioners in the Ultra experience.
Open the Participants panel to view all participants. Open the Collaborate panel and select Participants.
At-a-glance you see:
Browse through the list of participants or open More options at the top of the panel and select Search.
Point to a participant to view more information, such as their network connection. Moderators can select Moderator controls next to a participant's name to promote the, mute them, or remove them.
You can leave the Participants panel open all the time. Chat with others and see everyone in the session at the same time. You can tell who is away, has their microphone on, or is having network connection trouble. All while chatting and participating in the session.
You need to detach the Participants panel to keep it open. There are two ways to do this:
The main stage adjusts so you can still see everything on it. Any video, content, whiteboard, and application shared are moved to the left to make room for the panel.
Close the panel any time. Select More options at the top of the panel. Select Merge Panel.
Decide who can do what in Session Settings any time before or during a session. Open the Collaborate panel and select My Settings. Select Session Settings.
By default users with a participant role are allowed to show their profile picture, share their audio and video, post chat messages, and draw on the whiteboard and shared files.
You can also have all participants join as presenters or moderators. From the list of Sessions, find a session. Select Session options and Edit settings. Select Presenter or Moderator in the Guest Role menu.
This is only available to users with moderator access to the Scheduler, use Collaborate in an LTI compatible LMS, or use Blackboard Collaborate Ultra in their Blackboard Learn course at this time.
Are you sharing moderator or presenter roles with someone in your presentation? You can promote participants to other roles anytime.
Point to a participant in the Participants panel and select Moderator controls. Select the role you want to make that participant.
Moderators can mute individual participants or everyone in a session. This includes participants using the Blackboard app or the Blackboard Instructor app.
Muted participants see a notification telling them that the moderator has muted their microphone.
*Note: Participants can turn their microphone back on after being muted.
You can view reports from the list of sessions in Blackboard Collaborate
If you don't see View reports, it is not available on your system.
Managers can view reports for all sessions.
The Session attendance report provides an overview of when participants joined and left sessions. It also gives you an idea of how long participants were present in the session on average.
If your sessions are used more than once, there is a report for each time it was used.
Select View Report to see the full report. See when each participant joined and left the session. With this knowledge, check-in with individual participants to see if they were having any technical issues or need a quick review of what was presented and discussed.