Archiving a Collaboration Session

This guide will walk you through the process of archiving a collaboration session in your Blackboard course. Session archives allow you and students to review the discussions and questions raised during a collaboration session. Sessions are archived by date and the option to remove an archive is available.

Step 1: Click on the Control Panel link and click on Collaboration.

Step 2:You will see a listing of the possible collaboration sessions. Click on the Join button to the right of the title of the collaboration session.

Step 3: Once your chat screen has been loaded, and you are ready to begin recording the collaboration for later viewing click on the circle button.

Step 4:It will then ask you to set a name for this chat archive. If you would like it to be called something different, just delete the information and enter your desired information in. Click on the button when finished.

Step 5:When you are finished recording your collaboration session, click on the square button. Note that only the information displayed between the time you start recording and the time you finish recording will be allowed to be viewed separately.

Step 6:Click on the End button at the top of the screen when the collaboration session is finished.

Step 7:Click on the button to end this session. You will then receive a confirmation message, click on the button to close your chat window.

Step 8: Click the button to page that starts up the collaboration session (which is displayed immediately after you exit out of your session). You have to make the archives available if you want to allow your students to view them. To do so, click on the Recordings button in the upper right of the title of the collaboration session that you wish to make visible to students.

Step 9:Click the link of the recording to view it. Click on to set options.

Step 10: You may edit the archive name here. You can allow students to view the archive session by setting the to Yes. Then click on the Submit button.

Step 11: You will receive a confirmation message that notifies you that your updates have been completed on the archived session. Click on the button to close this page.