Just like in a face-to-face classroom, Collaborate's breakout groups are a good way to get students interacting.
FYI: What is said or viewed in a breakout room isn’t captured in recordings. Collaborate stops recording your session if all attendees leave the main room to join breakout groups. You can start your recording again from the Session Menu when one or more attendees return to the main room.
If you are using one or more group sets in your Blackboard course site, then you can use the Course Group Sets option. This is probably the best...
If you have 4 or more people in your room, you can randomly assign your participants to groups.
From the Breakout Groups menu, under the...
Collaborate's Breakout Groups can be found on the share panel. Click the OPEN COLLABORATE PANEL button in the bottom right of the Collaborate...
To move a participant from one group to another, first open the Attendee panel (if it is not already open) by clicking purple OPEN COLLABORATE...
To quickly move from one group (or the Main Room) to another, either as instructor or as a student in a session where switching between groups is...
If you’d like, you can instead use CUSTOM ASSIGNMENT to manually assign participants to groups. If have less than 4 participants in your...
To end a breakout activity and return all participants to the main room, open the Attendee panel (if it is not already open) by clicking purple...