Collaborate Sessions

Who is this guide for?

USA Faculty

What does this guide cover?

This guide will review sessions, managing sessions, setting up guest access and scheduling sessions using Class Collaborate.

Scheduler

When accessing Class Collaborate from Blackboard, you’ll be brought to a sessions pages called the "Collaborate Scheduler." This page is used to schedule sessions and adjust settings for the Collaborate Course Room.  

On this page, you can:

• Set the date for your session
• Set designated start and stop times
• Adjust session by session attendance
• Create a guest link
• View session recordings

Create a Session

Note: By default, sessions that last longer than 12 hours are disconnected. While sessions can be scheduled for any length of time including no end date, it’s unusual that anyone stays in the session for more than 12 hours at a time. We assume it is unintended and disconnect the room. Attendees can rejoin the session, if they need.

 

Guest access

Guests are attendees who don’t need to sign into the session or be enrolled in your course to join the session. Guests don’t require authentication.

When you allow guest access in the guide above, a guest link is available for the session. This link is a public link that can be used and shared by anyone who has it. Anyone with the guest link can join the session.

Once guest access is enabled and the session is created, a link will become available to share with guest users. Note: The session must be saved before the link becomes available.