The University of Windsor’s new Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom and webconferencing tool is now available to faculty, staff and students. The tool can be used in a number of ways, including recording lectures (live or pre-recorded from your desktop), facilitating group meetings, providing virtual office hours, flexibility in class attendance (for example when students or faculty are away or for snow days), allowing remote students to virtually attend on-campus lectures, communicating with distance students, collaborating with researchers, bringing in guest speakers virtually, and making virtual presentations.

So what does this beast look like? What can you do with it in your own classes or research collaborations? What do you need to access it? What issues or challenges can you address with this tool? All of these questions and more will be answered in this introductory workshop! If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could connect with my students in real time without having to phone them,” or, “I have a great explanation for that problem that students always ask me about, if only I could record it and make them watch it before coming to see me...” or “I wish there was some way to help students in groups connect with each other without having to physically get together...” then this workshop is for you!

Please bring a laptop and headphones if you have them.

The University of Windsor’s new Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom and webconferencing tool is now available to faculty, staff and students. The tool can be used in a number of ways, including recording lectures (live or pre-recorded from your desktop), facilitating group meetings, providing virtual office hours, flexibility in class attendance (for example when students or faculty are away or for snow days), allowing remote students to virtually attend on-campus lectures, communicating with distance students, collaborating with researchers, bringing in guest speakers virtually, and making virtual presentations.

So what does this beast look like? What can you do with it in your own classes or research collaborations? What do you need to access it? What issues or challenges can you address with this tool? All of these questions and more will be answered in this introductory workshop! If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could connect with my students in real time without having to phone them,” or, “I have a great explanation for that problem that students always ask me about, if only I could record it and make them watch it before coming to see me...” or “I wish there was some way to help students in groups connect with each other without having to physically get together...” then this workshop is for you!

Please bring a laptop and headphones if you have them.

Note: this workshop has been cancelled.

The University of Windsor’s new Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom and webconferencing tool is now available to faculty, staff and students. The tool can be used in a number of ways, including recording lectures (live or pre-recorded from your desktop), facilitating group meetings, providing virtual office hours, flexibility in class attendance (for example when students or faculty are away or for bad weather days), allowing remote students to virtually attend on-campus lectures, communicating with distance students, collaborating with researchers, bringing in guest speakers virtually, and making virtual presentations.

So what does this beast look like? What can you do with it in your own classes or research collaborations? What do you need to access it? What issues or challenges can you address with this tool? All of these questions and more will be answered in this introductory workshop! If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could connect with my students in real time without having to phone them,” or, “I have a great explanation for that problem that students always ask me about, if only I could record it and make them watch it before coming to see me...” or “I wish there was some way to help students in groups connect with each other without having to physically get together...” then this introductory workshop is for you!

Please bring a laptop and headphones if you have them. Please note: the virtual classroom does not currently run on iPads or Android tablets.

The University of Windsor’s new Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom and webconferencing tool is now available to faculty, staff and students. The tool can be used in a number of ways, including recording lectures (live or pre-recorded from your desktop), facilitating group meetings, providing virtual office hours, flexibility in class attendance (for example when students or faculty are away or for bad weather days), allowing remote students to virtually attend on-campus lectures, communicating with distance students, collaborating with researchers, bringing in guest speakers virtually, and making virtual presentations.

So what does this beast look like? What can you do with it in your own classes or research collaborations? What do you need to access it? What issues or challenges can you address with this tool? All of these questions and more will be answered in this introductory workshop! If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could connect with my students in real time without having to phone them,” or, “I have a great explanation for that problem that students always ask me about, if only I could record it and make them watch it before coming to see me...” or “I wish there was some way to help students in groups connect with each other without having to physically get together...” then this introductory workshop is for you!

Please bring a laptop and headphones if you have them. Please note: the virtual classroom does not currently run on iPads or Android tablets.