1. Webinar Instructor Training
October 1, 2013
Blackboard Collaborate Essentials

2. Asking Questions
Please raise your hand if you have a question

3. Asking Questions
Use the Chat or your Audio

4. Keys to Speaking
Click the talk button to activate microphone

5. Keys to Speaking- Tips
Cannot hear or speak? Run the Audio Setup Wizard
Check computer audio levels
Is there a mute on your headset?
Cannot fix your issue? Contact Blackboard Support

6. The Fine Print
You must attend all three sessions in the correct order. Additional sessions will be offered in the winter and spring.
You will be paid for sessions you attend after you complete and submit the assignment in session three.
Session 3 assignment will be to plan and deliver a thirty minute webinar training of your choice. You must have at least one live attendee (preferably another instructor.)You must submit the recording of the session.

7. Meet Your Instructor
Sharon Gallagher

8. Your Introductions Name Position Your experience with web conferencing
What you are looking forward to learning

9. Vacation Time

10. Participants in this workshop will get a solid foundation, enabling them to successfully deliver live, interactive Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing sessions. Participants will learn how to effectively manage the session communication tools, display PowerPoint content and record sessions for later playback.

11. Upon completion of this workshop, learners will be able to:
Understand the user interface – layouts and customization
Use Detach Panel to change the panel layouts
Use the Restore Default Layouts from the View menu to reset the panel layouts
Identify different methods of communication – audio, chat, video, and polling
Turn on and off the VoIP audio
Use the VoIP audio, including simultaneous talkers, to effectively verbally communicate during a session
Turn on the live video to display webcam video
Use Chat to send and receive public, private, and announcement type messages.
Change the Polling response options
Lock/unlock, hide/show and publish the Polling responses

12. Manage classroom interaction from the Participants Panel - participant permissions and understanding activity and status indicators
Give and take away the session permissions individually and globally. The permissions are Audio, Video, Chat, Whiteboard, Application Sharing and Web Tour
Interpret the Activity Indicators and use them to manage classroom interaction
Interpret the Status Indicators and use them to manage classroom pace
Manage Whiteboard content
Load a PowerPoint file to the Whiteboard
Navigate the Pages
Utilize the tools located on the Whiteboard Tools Palette to draw and write on the whiteboard
Generate a session recording
Turn on and pause the session recorder
Identify how to access the saved recording 

13. The Participant Interface

14. Moderator Interface

15. Customize Your View How do you move the panels? Or…
Options Menu > Detach Panel

16. Moderator Status

17. Simultaneous Talkers

18. Simultaneous Talkers Tips Use headset or echo-cancelling microphone
Don’t talk over participants

19. Keys to Live Video Click the Video Preview before Transmitting
Transmit: Video Button
Video Tips:
Solid backdrop (if possible)
Make sure items you do not want to be seen are not in camera view

20. Video Customizations

21. Keys to Chat
Participant View
Moderator View

22. Keys to Private Chat

23. Managing Private Chat

24. Managing Private Chat

25. Chat Announcements

26. Individual Permissions

27. Global Permissions

28. Test Your Knowledge… Audio

29. Test Your Knowledge… Chat

30. Test Your Knowledge… Whiteboard

31. Test Your Knowledge… Audio Delay

32. What are they telling us?

33. What can you do?

34. Test Your Knowledge…

35. Polling Sample

36. Keys to Polling

37. Keys to Loading Content

38. Steps to Loading Content

39. Page Explorer

40. Page Explorer

41. Saving Whiteboards

42. Whiteboard Tools

43. Whiteboard- Select Tool

44. Whiteboard- Pointer Tool

45. Whiteboard- Pencil or Highlighter

46. Whiteboard- Text Tool

47. Whiteboard- Fill Square or Circle Tool

48. Whiteboard- Outline Square or Circle Tool

49. Whiteboard- Line Tool

50. Session Recording

51. This week’s assignment
Create a Introduction to Instructor Slide in PPT. You will upload at our next session.
Create an outline for a professional development webinar.
Think about interactive v. passive instructional strategies with BBC.