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Remember: Collaborate uses a neutral naming convention. A moderator is a person in control of the virtual meeting. Typically the moderator is the instructor. A participant has fewer abilities in the meeting and are usually students.

Faculty often use Blackboard Collaborate to allow student to present papers or projects to the rest of the class virtually. In order for the student to be able to upload a PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentation they will need moderator privileges.

There are two ways to give moderator privileges to participants:

  1. In a live Bb Collaborate session
  2. When scheduling the session in Blackboard

Live Bb Collaborate session

Locate the student requiring moderator privileges in the participant list. Hover the mouse pointer over their name until the edit button (looks like several small horizontal lines) appears and click on it.

Hover over participant name and click edit button

In the resulting menu Select Give Moderator Privileges.

Choose Give Moderator Privileges

The student will then be able to upload their presentation. For instructions how, visit Upload Presentation.


When scheduling the session in Blackboard

You can designate one or more students to automatically be moderators when they join the session. For detailed instructions view Scheduling a Session in Blackboard

In the scheduling tool, on the Participation tab, locate Available Participants.

  1. Click on a student to select them.
  2. Click on the arrow to ‘move’ that student into the Moderators areas. Click Submit to save changes. And when that student joins the session they will automatically have moderator privileges.

 

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