Unsure about how to upgrade from Wimba or Elluminate Live to Blackboard Collaborate 11 or 12? During this panel on Blackboard Collaborate Connections Summit 2012, I participated in a panel sharing our experiences about their upgrade processes. These are the slides that I used during my portion of the presentation.

1. Jason Rhode
Assistant Director
Faculty Development and
Instructional Design Center
jrhode@niu.edu
twitter.com/jrhode
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2. Blackboard Collaborate @ NIU
• Online office hours
• Reducing in-class “seat time” with virtual lectures
• Guest presenters
• Online group collaborations
• Online group presentations
• Orientation for online classes
• Training sessions for graduate students prior to starting
clinical internships
• Long-distance “pen-pals”
• Task force committee meetings
• Pre-admissions counseling with prospective students
• Faculty Development online & simulcast workshops
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3. Faculty Previews
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4. Faculty Survey
surveymonkey.com/s/BZJQLHK

5. Which features have you used in WC?
Response Percent
Pre-load content from Blackboard course 19%
Application share 25%
Download mp3/mp4 archives 50%
Archives 37%
Telephony 31%
Informal polling (check mark or X) 13%
Survey questions 31%
PowerPoint slides 63%
Whiteboard 25%
Setup wizard 50%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
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6. How long do you make archives available?
Response Percent
I use archives for multiple semesters 17%
Until the end of the semester 25%
For a set time - a few days or weeks 17%
I do not make archives available to my
42%
students
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%
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7. How do you feel about these features in Bb
Collaborate, not currently in WC?
Mobile app for participants
Scientific & math notation…
Up to 6 simultaneous video…
Realtime indicators of activity Neutral
Like
File exchange Can't wait!
Web tour
Echo cancellation
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
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8. How important are these features in WC, not
currently in Bb Collaborate, to your teaching?
Download mp3/mp4 versions of
archives from Bb
Unlimited active speakers
Not Important
Important
Telephony
Critical
Persistent content
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
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9. Transitioning to Bb Collaborate @ NIU
Testing & Config
Blackboard Begins of Bb Documentation
Collaborate 11 Collab 11 & Bb page for NIU
Released Learn building 2-day onsite
created training for
block
faculty support
FacDev begins staff
using Bb Collab Faculty
Bb Collab
NIU previews
available in all
Participants
Bb courses
in Wimba Survey of WC
Upgrade faculty Wimba Upgrade disabled
Cohort users to v12
Non-academic
uses enabled via
Communities
Dual Deployment Limited Release
7/11 8/11 9/11 2/12 3/12 6/12 7/12 8/12
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10. More at Bb Collaborate @ NIU
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