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Blackboard Collaborate
What do you like best about the product?
I work at a university with three campuses. This allows us to have meetings without needing to be in the same town.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is kind of hard to set up and we have some issues with sound.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With all of the budget cuts this allows us to cut travel and still visit and meet with co workers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Perhaps a trial to make sure your school's technology works with this? I know the sound is bad a lot of times, but that could be our speakers and not the program.
Love this platform for my online course experience!
What do you like best about the product?
I love being able to teach my graduate course on this platform. Students are able to access my course easily and quickly. We are also able to meet in my virtual classroom on a regular basis and interact virtually. I love being able to access my course and engage with students synchronously and asynchronously.
What do you dislike about the product?
At times when we are in a virtual session there can be glitches including getting kicked out. Additionally, sometimes Blackboard and Java do not work well together. This is frustrating because some Java updates make it difficult to sue Blackboard.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a place to meet with students synchronously and asynchronously is important and I am grateful to do so through our course platform in Blackboard and my virtual classroom. The interaction and engagement levels are high and always improving.
Everyday Use
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can set up your presentation ahead of time and plan it out.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it freezes - you are in the middle of a presentation with lots of moving parts and it freezes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Educating our future.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great program for virtual conferences.
Good Idea; Poor UI
What do you like best about the product?
The underlying idea of Bb Collaborate is a useful one, and it offers some helpful features to communicate with students who need more individualized attention or who want to hold group work sessions virtually.
What do you dislike about the product?
Bb Collaborate just isn't intuitive. Whether you've used computers for the past 30 years or past 3 years, you'd still have to have a good deal of training to really get the most out of what it offers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bb Collaborate appears to want to address the personal/interactive opportunities that online learning loses in moving to an asynchronous mode. With Collaborate, though unwieldy, students can view recorded interactions (though recording Skype lessons/group chats via a program like Camtasia) seems easier here than the often laborious setup for Collaborate sessions.
K12 Educator
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to create groups and split them up into breakout rooms.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes a long time to load once you click the initialization download.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is one way to connect and teach students who are at a distance-- sharing and discussing files/assignments is possible.
Solid web conferencing platform
What do you like best about the product?
The 12.6 version has all the features you expect in web conferencing (and many you'll never know are there). It is scalable to many users without experiencing any performance issues. The VoIP, app sharing, chat are easy to use and the file sharing, chat, and participants are all visible in the recordings.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web-based SAS system is very challenging (12.6 version). It requires Java which is not that easy to use with the Mac OS. The software requires Java so if you are in managed environment users will need to have someone update Java. If you move over to the Blackboard Ultra (web-based conferencing) it simplifies the user experience but lacks some of the features in the 12.6 version (no breakout rooms, chat and participant list not visible in recordings, etc.).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing live direct instruction for student blended and online courses as well as just in time support. We also leverage web conferencing for professional learning and district-wide meetings. Schools have also brought in other school sites and community resources into the classroom through the web conference. We are able to increase the availability of instructors outside of the school day, increase peer-to-peer collaboration and reduce travel time and costs associated with meetings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Providing a web-based system (Ultra) is a way for them to improve versus competitors that were offering web-based versions of the software. We really like the LTI integration with our LMS (Canvas). This helps to validate the user profile and is a major upgrade over user, session, and recording management that is currently in the SAS interface.
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