The document provides tips for managing PowerPoint presentations in Blackboard Collaborate. Key points include: - Students need moderator privileges to present slides from PowerPoints - Presentations can be uploaded and students promoted to moderator during a session or set up in advance - PowerPoints don't remain between sessions so slides should be saved as whiteboard files for faster loading later - Uploading PowerPoints can slow down sessions, so uploading one at a time and deleting is best - Moderators can promote students and remove moderator privileges from the user list or top menu

1. Managing PowerPoints
in
Blackboard Collaborate
03/13/2015

2. Key Facts to Remember
 Students need to be moderators to present slides
 Can promote “on-the-fly”
 Can set up as moderators ahead of time
 PowerPoints don’t remain in room between sessions
 No advantage to uploading the day before
 Can upload then save as whiteboard files for speed
 PowerPoints are slower to upload and “freeze” room
 Can upload/save ahead of time as whiteboard files
 PowerPoints can get inter-mingled easily
 Students should do one-at-a-time upload, then delete
 All-at-once approach is very risky

3. Promoting Students
 Select student in list, then select menu icon just after name
 Select Give Moderator Privileges near bottom
 Select Take Away Moderator Privileges to “demote”
Tools ->
Moderator ->
Give Moderator Privileges
 Can also use top menu bar:

4. Save as Whiteboard
 Click button in upper right.
 After loaded, delete any blank slides or whiteboards.
 Select from top menu bar:
 Usually Select All (default)
 Save as .WBD file for later loading (will go very quickly)
File ->
Save ->
Whiteboard

5. Deleting Slides (Pages)
 When a student is done presenting, before next student loads, delete
existing slides.
 To quickly delete one slide/page (for example the blank “Public Page”,
click Delete Page in the upper left of the slide area.
 To delete several pages (or all pages)
 First, in upper left of slide area, select Show Page Explorer
 In Explorer, click a slide
 It should turn blue
 Now right click and “Select All Peers” *
 With all slides selected (blue), right click and Delete *
* Screenshots on following slides

6. Deleting Slides – Select All Peers

7. Deleting Slides – Deleting All Selected