Collaborate – Breakout Groups

Guide: Collaborate – Breakout groups
Time to read: 15 ~ 60 Minutes
Operating System: Windows/Mac Computer
Web Browser: Google Chrome (recommended)

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Generic guidance on Blackboard Collaborate Ultra can be found on the teaching hub.

Breakout groups is a feature within in Blackboard collaborate Ultra that enables interaction amongst students. When a moderator (lecturer) starts Breakout groups students are set up in either randomly or manually assigned groups. Once within those groups, students become ‘presenters’ within their groups allowing them to share content/screens/applications as well as the collaborate whiteboards.

Guidance on breakout groups

1. About Breakout groups and how to start them
2. Sharing files to breakout groups
3. Setting the timer (Note: Due to the current surge in usage, the timer function has been temporarily disabled by Blackboard  to help maintain system performance.)
4. What can attendees do in breakout groups?
5. How to Monitor groups
6. Move attendees to another group
7. Can I remove someone from a session?
8. What happens if another moderator makes changes to the groups?
9. End breakout groups
10. Save files from breakout groups
11. Recordings and breakout groups
12. Helpful tips: Delete a single item on the whiteboard & Rotate content on the whiteboard

Demonstration of how to set up breakout groups from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Group work ideas in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra are found in the document below.

 

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