This document shows moderators how to promote and demote participants while in a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session

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Promoting and Demoting Participants in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
When you are in a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session as a moderator, you may want to change the roles
of certain users during the course of a session. You can promote or demote participants, make them the
captioner, or even remove them from the session. All of these operations are easy to do and are accessed in
the same place.
First, open the Collaborate panel by going to the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
When you mouse over the button and the words, “Open Collaborate panel” appear,
click the button.
When the Collaborate panel opens, click on the
Participant List button.
Your Participants List should open, showing you and all other
session participants
When you mouse over the name of a participant, icons will
appear. When you see the icons appear, click on the circle with
the three dots in it.

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After you click, you will see a menu of choices below the
participant’s name. Click on role you wish to assign to that
participant.
If you have promoted a participant to moderator or presenter
status, you can demote them to participant status by reopening
this menu. If necessary, you may even remove a participant from
the session.
If you have many participants in a session, it may be easiest to
find a participant by using the search feature. To do this, click on
the magnifying glass icon and start typing the participant’s name
in the search box that opens. The more letters you type, the more
it will narrow the list.

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A Unit of Learning Information and Technology
University of Wisconsin-Stout © 2016 The Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin3
In most cases, it is advisable to only promote participants to the Presenter role unless they will actually
be helping you to moderate the session. The Captioner role is the person who will type in captions as
the meeting progresses, if closed captioning is enabled. Note: Learning Technology Services (LTS) does not
provide or pay for the use of session captioners.