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Polling in Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra Experience Video


Interact 

Breakout groups are allow for small group collaboration, instructors or leaders can create breakout groups that are separate from the main room and assign attendees to them.  Every attendee in the group is a presenter, which means all attendees can share the whiteboard, files, and applications with the rest of their group.

  1. Log into Blackboard 
  2. Join Session 
  3. Click the purple button -  bottom right hand corner of the screen 

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4.  Click the square with arrow icon, which is the Share Content feature 

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5. Click Breakout Groups

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6.  Select the students you want in each group.  You can add and move students and participants by assigning them to a group or by dragging and dropping the name to a group.  Create a new group by clicking the plus sign

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Note:  Blackboard Collaborate Ultra can create groups and randomly assign attendees when there are four or more people in the room.   Allow students and participants to switch groups, if you want them to be able to move to another group on their own. 


7. Click Start 

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Monitoring Groups 

After breakout groups have started instructors and leaders can move between groups to monitor them.  If instructors and leaders assign themselves to a group, they can see and hear what others in the group are doing. 

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Moving Attendees to Another Group 

Moderators can move attendees between groups.  From the attendees panel, find an attendee and select moderator controls.  Select Move to another group.  This will open the Breakout groups panel.  Move the attendee to another group.

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End Breakout Groups 

To end the breakout groups, select End Breakout Groups

Click the button - top right hand corner 

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Breakout Groups in Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra Experience Video