Bb Collaborate Web Conferencing:

Offer a more collaborative, interactive, and mobile learning experience that constantly evolves, and you’ll keep everyone engaged like never before. That’s what the Blackboard Collaborate™ platform is all about. Helping you create virtual classrooms, offices and meeting spaces that open more possibilities to more students, wherever they are. Offering exciting new approaches to learning while involving each student on an individual level Blackboard Collaborate™ technology delivers open, education-focused collaboration solutions that provides a wide spectrum of collaboration:

• Web Conferencing
• Mobile collaboration
• Instant Messaging
• Voice Authoring
• Seamless Integrations (from http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/overview.aspx).

Plan:

Blackboard Collaborate™ Plan enables you to organize, script, and package content and activities BEFORE your real-time, online session. Unlike other products designed for self-paced viewing, Plan was developed specifically for use in a multi-user, multi-language, instructor-led, real-time eLearning environment

• Package content and interactions for live session in a single file
• Automate routine tasks of running a session
• Trigger each action in live session with a single click of the Next button
• Focus on delivery and interaction
• Expand use of real-time interaction to all instructors
• Leverage institutional expertise and limited teaching resources
• Ensure consistent delivery by multiple presenters
• Reduce reliance on co-facilitators to reduce cost
• Store plans in LMS/CMS systems, on local networks, or CD-ROM (from http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Products/Blackboard-Collaborate/Web-Conferencing/Plan.aspx)

Publish:

With Publish V2, you can convert your Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing session recordings to high-definition video podcasts that capture whiteboard content, shared applications, chat transcripts and all audio. Meet the needs of todays mobile learners with on-demand access to reusable multimedia learning objects. You can even add closed captioning by reusing the captioning created during the live session or adding captions directly to the recording.

• Meet the needs of mobile students with anywhere, anytime viewing
• Create portable, reusable learning content
• Leverage content of session recordings
• Create industry-standard, high-definition video files
• Create standalone recordings that preserve interactivity such as text chat, file transfer, and web tours
• Provide closed captioning for the hearing impaired
• Distribute recordings and videos on your network, web server, or CD
• View content, even when not connected to Internet (from http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Collaborate/Products/Blackboard-Collaborate/Web-Conferencing/Publish.aspx)