Best Practices

Optimize use. Promote  adoption. Maximize success. That's what best practices are all about. Here are some resources to help you make the most of the Blackboard Collaborate™ platform at your academic institution.

Getting Ready to Upgrade to Blackboard Collaborate

When is the right time to upgrade to Blackboard Collaborate? It's not too early to get started with your upgrade plan right now, especially since we have a comprehensive set of resources to ease the change management process, provide best practices, and facilitate adoption. So you'll find your upgrade experience to Blackboard Collaborate more personal, supportive, and guided. Learn more >

Blackboard Collaborate Champion Tool Kit

Do you need help spreading the word about Blackboard Collaborate at your school? We've created our Blackboard Collaborate Champion Tool Kit just for you. It's a collection of tools you can use to help generate excitement and promote adoption of Blackboard Collaborate by the many stakeholders at your institution. To get your Champion Tool Kit, contact us today. You'll get v ideo links, logos and graphics, door hanger and poster, social media recommendations, and more!

Best Practices Briefs

• Top Ten Habits of Highly Effective Blackboard Collaborate Moderators
• Top Ten Ways of Using Blackboard Collaborate
• Top Ten Benefits of Using Blackboard Collaborate
• Top Ten Ways to Promote Adoption of Blackboard Collaborate
   

Best Practices White Papers

• Integration: The "Behind the Scenes" Enabler of Blended Learning 
• 10 Cool Ways to Engage with Blackboard Collaborate 
• Live Engagement: Building the Case for Adding Synchronous Collaboration to Blackboard Learn 
• Live Engagement: Building the Case for Adding Synchronous Collaboration to Your LMS
  
• The 5 Critical Elements of a Collaboration Solution for Education 
• The 5 Critical Elements of a Collaboration Solution for K-12 School Systems 
• No User Left Behind: Blackboard Collaborate and the Accessibility Imperative 

Customer Contributions

• The Development and Assessment of an Online Microscopic
  Anatomy Laboratory Course at Western University
• Online Microscopic Anatomy Laboratory Courses at Western University