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DoIT Support for Collaborate Will End Next Summer, 2025

Alternate synchronous tools include Google, Microsoft, Webex

After many years of use, UMBC’s license for Class Collaborate (formerly Blackboard Collaborate) will end on July 31, 2025. As one of our longest licensed tools, Collaborate provided synchronous...

Posted: August 15, 2024, 11:32 AM

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DoIT to retain Collaborate recordings for 12 months

Recordings made before July 1, 2023 to be retired

Synchronous engagement tools provide platforms for instructors and students to meet during online, hybrid, and hyflex class sessions. Many courses record these live sessions to provide a lecture...

Posted: April 11, 2023, 11:13 AM

Generate & embed captions for Collaborate recordings in May

Support accessibility for recorded sessions in your classes

Creating captioning for recordings from scratch can be very time consuming for instructors or accessibility staff. Beginning in May 2022, instructors can leverage the help of artificial...

Posted: May 2, 2022, 8:22 AM

Instructional Technology Essentials for June 2022

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Interested in attending an Instructional Technology Essentials session but unsure when it will be? Sign up for one of our sessions by May 20, 2022. Interested participants will be sent a Doodle...

Posted: April 21, 2022, 12:54 PM