Blackboard Collaborate Lesson Recipes and Formulae
These ‘Lesson Recipes’ aims to help you facilitate learning activities with your students. They are based on staff experiences and pedagogic good practice.
Each lesson recipe provides you with…
- the process from scheduling the event > leading the activity > closing the activity.
- links to additional guidance if you are not sure how to do something in Collaborate.
- tips for dealing with unexpected issues and for getting more boom for your buck when using the activity.
The lesson recipes have been grouped according to how fluent students need to be with Collaborate and/or with other technologies such as working collaboratively with a shared PowerPoint.
New to Collaborate
[in development] How to run a ‘Collaborate features’ diagnostic
How to include an external speaker/presenter in a session
Familiar with the basics
How to lead a Think-Pair-Share session using break out rooms
[in development] How to run catalytic/Mazur style discussions by integrating polls
More digitally proficient
How to organise an activity where different groups have different tasks/texts
How to use customisable backgrounds for simulations/role play activities
We will add more lesson recipes over time. You can upvote the ideas that have been put forward.
This initiative is part of the University’s EASD 20/21 project.