Preparing for Live Online Teaching with Collaborate Ultra

Preparing for Live Online Teaching with Collaborate Ultra

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Centre for Academic Practice, Trinity College Dublin

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Teaching & Learning

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Digital Learning, Teaching and Learning Practice

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This OER provides an overview of Collaborate ultra for live online teaching. Collaborate Ultra allows you to share audio, video, files and applications, use a virtual whiteboard and run polls. There is also a ‘breakout room’ feature which you can use to support small group interaction within your classes.

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At Trinity we use Collaborate Ultra for live online teaching. This is a virtual classroom within your Blackboard module that is designed to support synchronous teaching events, facilitating real-time communication between students and teachers. You can use Collaborate Ultra to support your ‘real-time’ live teaching in hybrid/blended or online provision. This OER provides general guidelines and information on managing breakout rooms.

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Centre for Academic Practice, and Trinity College Dublin (2021). Preparing for live online teaching with collaborate ultra. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/preparing-for-live-online-teaching-with-collaborate-ultra/ License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).

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