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Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

Collaborate Ultra - Discontinued July 1, 2024

After Blackboard was acquired by Anthology in 2021, the parent company decided a year later that it was going to sell Blackboard Collaborate to Class Technologies. Montgomery College faculty have been supporters and users of Collaborate for the better part of the decade; while Collaborate has a strong core of regular users, many of MC's faculty have migrated to Zoom since the Covid-19 pandemic. With our Class Collaborate Ultra contract expiring on June 30,2024, we are asking faculty to migrate to Zoom. Zoom has added a number of new features such as notes, clip and surveys to go along with the whiteboard and online polls. It is much more user friendly for the classroom environment than it was just a few years ago.

All spring courses will have access to the Collaborate tool through the end of term.

  • Starting in summer 1 session 2024, you will need to use alternate tools for video/audio web-conferencing and collaboration, such as Zoom or MS Teams.
  • All Collaborate recordings will be inaccessible after June 01, 2024. The vendor will permanently delete all recordings after the cessation of the contract.
  • If you have any recordings that you wish to keep, you must download the recordings. Please, do not download to Blackboard. Recordings can be downloaded and saved to Yuja, YouTube, OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox, or MS Teams and linked to courses
  • If you used Collaborate to record lectures that you wish to re-use, make sure there are no students in the recording. Recordings cannot be used if there are students from a previous course section in the recorded session videos (due to federal privacy laws that ensure no identifiable student information can be gained in a different course).
  • Downloading and saving Collaborate sessions does take some time so please do not wait to get started.
Downloading recordings:

Open the Recordings and click on the Recording Options menu to the right of the session you want to view. Then click Download.

If you have any questions, concerns, or would like assistance, please do not hesitate to contact dl@montgomerycollege.edu.

Update 7/1/2024

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