Blackboard Collaborate at UVa
Overview
UVa holds a site-wide license for Blackboard Collaborate. Its suite of products is available for use by all University faculty, staff, and students.
About Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate (formerly known as Elluminate Live!) facilitates real-time online meetings, trainings, and classes for your project groups, research teams, and academic courses through:
- Blackboard Collaborate enables meeting facilitators/participants
and instructors/students to interact and collaborate online in real time. It is available
as a tool in UVaCollab sites or standalone, and also includes:
- Blackboard Collaborate Plan, which aids pre-meeting/class preparation by automating routine tasks; and
- Blackboard Collaborate Publish, which converts recorded sessions into portable formats that can be viewed in a Web browser or mobile device.
More information about Blackboard Collaborate’s robust audio, video, whiteboard, chat and other feedback capabilities, and its application-sharing tools, is on the vendor website, including:
- Recommendations about minimum operating system, browser, and Java requirements, and
- Information for first-time users.
Get Started Now
- Create Blackboard Collaborate sessions:
- Using the Bridge Tool in UVaCollab or
- By having your departmental support person create a meeting for you directly in Blackboard Collaborate.
- Find out who your designated departmental support person is.
- Don’t have one, or aren’t sure about your support options? Contact bb-collaborate@virginia.edu.
- View the Blackboard Collaborate usage at UVa instructions.
- Check out Blackboard Collaborate training and demo options.
