Provide opportunities for student engagement

Breakout rooms are essentially miniature sessions within the main collaborate session. You can assign students to these rooms and they can reconvene back into the main session.

Breakout rooms are essentially miniature sessions within the main collaborate session. You can alternate between rooms and allow students to share and create content collaborative in the breakout rooms.

Hands up is a feature on Blackboard Collaborate where students can visually bring the moderator’s attention to themselves to ask a question or note if they have something to contribute.

In Collaborate, participants will be able to communicate their level of participation in the session by choosing a status or using a ‘reaction’

Using polls in Collaborate is a good way to engage your students by inviting them to participate, asking them a question or asking for their opinion on something.