This PowerPoint walks Blackboard Collaborate moderators through the tools and features available to them.

2. HOW TO CREATE A SESSION
1. Log in to your Blackboard Collaborate account at
https://sas.elluminate.com
2. Click “Schedule a Meeting”
3. Give your session a name, date, and
starting/ending time. (You will be able to log in 30
minutes prior to the start time.)
4. You will then receive a confirmation email with the
moderator link to join as well as a guest link to send
out to your participants.

3. Menu Bar
Collaborate Bar
Audio/Video
Panel
Options Menu
Content Area
Feedback Icons
Participants
Panel
Chat Panel
Side Bar
VOCABULARY

4. AUDIO SETUP WIZARD
1. Configure your audio
wizard by clicking the
following icon:
2. Update your profile.
 Right click on your name and
click “Edit Profile”
3. Chat area
 Click on the entry box in the
chat, type a message, then hit
enter/return on your keyboard.

5. KEYS TO SPEAKING
• Click and Release the
“Talk” button to
activate the
microphone.
• Click and Release
again when you are
done.

6. KEYS TO LIVE VIDEO
Click the preview button
BEFORE transmitting
Video Tips
 Solid background
 Make sure items you do not
want to be seen are not in the
camera view
The following icon indicates
the user is transmitting
video.
Preview button

7. AUDIO ICONS/SYMBOLS
Orange: slight delay (3-8 seconds)
Red: longer delay (8+ seconds)

8. RECORDING THE SESSION
To Activate: Click
the “Record”
button.
To Pause: Click the
“Recording”
button.
To Resume: Click
the “Record”
button.

9. EMOTICONS AND AWAY STATUS
By clicking on the smiley
face button, you can
select a variety of
emoticons such as
thumbs up or applauding.
By clicking on the second
icon, you can indicate
that you need to
temporarily step away
from your computer.

10. GLOBAL PERMISSIONS
The default setting is for all participants to be able to use audio,
video, chat, and the whiteboard while moderators can also do
application sharing and web tour.
You can alter any of these global permissions by clicking the Options
Menu and the choosing the permissions you want enabled.
Look here for a quick
glance of what
permissions you
have enabled.

11. CHATTING WITH AN INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT
• To send a chat
message to an
individual
participant, right
click on their name
and select “Send a
Private Chat”.

12. MULTIPLE MODERATORS
Moderator privileges may be given to a participant if they are coteaching the webinar.
To do so, right click on the participant’s name and select “Give
Moderator Privileges”

13. PRIVATE CHAT WITH MODERATORS
If there is more than one
moderator, you can have a
private conversation.
A separate tab will automatically
appear in the chat panel.
You know you have a message
when a speech bubble icon
appears next to the word
“Moderators”.

14. AS A MODERATOR, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO
WITH YOUR CONTENT?

15. WHITEBOARD TOOLS
• Your whiteboard tools allow
you and your participants to
have a cursor, pointer, write
with a pen/marker, create a
text box, make shapes and
outlines, etc.
• Explore these tools to get
the hang of them.

16. TRY OUT YOUR WHITEBOARD TOOLS HERE
Write your name in your favorite color.

17. LOADING CONTENT
1. Close your
PowerPoint
application.
2. Click the “Load
Content” button.
3. Select a
PowerPoint file and
click “Open”. (It
cannot be any
other file type)

18. LOADING CONTENT
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• Your computer will pop up the
following windows but do not touch
any keys.
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• When it is finished, you will see a
Page Explorer box like this:

19. NAVIGATING CONTENT
• Navigate the slides
using left/right arrows.
• Click on drop down
menu to see list of
slide titles.

20. NAVIGATING CONTENT
If you click the “Follow”
button, participants
will see the same slide
you do.
If you uncheck the
“Follow” button, you
can look ahead or
behind to different
slides without your
participants being
able to see what you
are doing.
A red box will remain
around the last slide
that participants are
viewing.

21. FILE TRANSFER (SLIDE 1 OF 2)
1. Click “File”, “Open”, and then “File for Transfer”
2. Select the file you want to share with your participants and then click
“Open”
3. A status bar shows you the progress of the file uploading for transfer.
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22. FILE TRANSFER (SLIDE 2 OF 2)
4. Participants will be sent an announcement box that says a file has been
sent to them. Encourage them to click “Yes”.
5. Participants will be prompted to designate a place on their computer
where they want to save the file.
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23. APPLICATION SHARE
1. To share an
application with your
participants, make
sure you have the
application already
open on your
computer.
2. Click the “Application
Share” icon on the
Collaborate Bar.
3. A list of applications
you have open will
appear. Select the
one you want to
share.
4. Click “Share”.

24. APPLICATION SHARE
Once you have shared a specific application with the participants, they will
only see the application you shared with them.
If a gray box appears on their screen, you have opened up a second
application that you did not agree to share with them. You can only
share one application at a time.

25. DISAPPEARING WHITEBOARD
After doing an application share, it is likely that your whiteboard will
“disappear”. You can retrieve the whiteboard by pulling out from
the side bar. *View screencast for demonstration*
Pull
to
the
right
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26. HOW TO STOP AN APPLICATION SHARE
Once you are finished sharing an application
with participants, you need to go back to
Blackboard Collaborate and stop sharing.
1. Above the content area in Blackboard, you
will see a button that says “Stop Sharing”.
2. Then click on the Whiteboard icon on the
Collaborate Bar to go back to the
Whiteboard or PowerPoint presentation you
were showing.

27. WEB TOUR
A web tour allows you to take participants to a webpage while still
staying in Blackboard Collaborate.
1. Click the Web Tour icon
2. Paste in the URL of the website you would like to take participants
to
3. Hit enter/return
4. All participants will be able to view (within Blackboard) the website
you sent them and will be able to browse the page independently
5. If you click the “Follow Me” button, participants will follow your
every click on the website (even if they are trying to browse
independently)

28. POLLING (SLIDE 1 OF 3)
Besides the default “Yes/No” on the Feedback Toolbar, you can also
poll participants with multiple choice answers.
1. Click the Options Menu
2. Select “Polling Type” and then select the type of response you
want the participants to be able to choose from.

29. POLLING (SLIDE 2 OF 3)
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Once participants complete the poll, their answer will appear next to
their name.
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You can publish the results of the poll to the whiteboard in order to
display the data in a bar graph. Click the Options Menu and then
select “Publish Responses to Whiteboard”.
•
Click the “Clear” button to clear their answers.

30. POLLING (SLIDE 3 OF 3)
In the Options Menu
• Select “Lock Responses” if you
do not want participants to be
able to change their answer
once one is selected.
• Select “Make Responses
Visible” if you want their
answers displayed for others to
see (this is the default).

31. LOWERING ALL HANDS
If you many of your
participants have
their hand raised and
you want to lower
them all at once.
1. Click the Options
Menu
2. Then select “Lower All
Hands”

32. SAVING THE WHITEBOARD
To save the whiteboard, click “File”, “Save” and “Whiteboard”. Select what
page(s) of the whiteboard you want to save and where you want it saved.
It will be a “wbd” file.
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33. RETRIEVING RECORDED SESSIONS
A recording of the sessions you moderate will be emailed to you upon completion of
the webinar.
You can also access the recordings by logging into Blackboard’s website:
http://sas.elluminate.com