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Blackboard Collaborate

Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) is a web-based conferencing tool that facilitates the creation of virtual collaborative spaces. With Bb Collaborate, users can participate in online classroom sessions, discussion groups, office hours, or committee meetings for example. A conference participant can see others using a web cam, hear and ask questions through voice or instant messaging, and discuss presentations and ideas using a common whiteboard or by sharing desktops. Sessions can be recorded.

Blackboard Collaborate can be used within a Blackboard Learn course to create a virtual classroom session, automatically giving all enrolled students access. Faculty also have the option to post recorded sessions with other course materials in their Blackboard Learn courses.

Virtual meetings or office hours using Blackboard Collaborate allow participants to collaborate by sharing documents and presentations, discussing in real time, or by using a common whiteboard.

Blackboard Collaborate requires no software installation and is web browser and operating system independent. A small Java application is downloaded and installed when a user connects, taking less than two minutes on an average computer.

Blackboard Collaborate is available to all faculty and staff through an unlimited campus-wide three-year contract beginning March, 2010.  For support or information, contact Ken Muessig at the Faculty Technology Center at kmuessi@uark.edu or 575-7401.