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You can record and share class interactions and lectures in the Collaborate Ultra tool. You can also make multiple recordings during one session. If you decide to resume recording a session after you have stopped (or had breakout group sessions), a new recording is saved and added to the list of recordings. Only moderators can record sessions in Collaborate Ultra. After recording is complete, allow twice the length of the recording for processing and rendering time for the recording to appear in the Recordings list.

Recorded activity

Recordings capture the following types of activity in the live session:

  • Audio

  • Any content shared or active speaker video. If both are shared during the session, only the content shared is recorded.

  • Captions entered during the live session or added later by a moderator. Only one caption track is available. If your session had more than one caption track, only the first available one is captured.

  • Chat messages in the Everyone channel. Private messages and chat messages in breakout groups are not recorded.

    • In the Session Settings menu, you can select to Anonymize chat messages before recording to avoid showing names in the recorded chat content.

Recordings and Breakout Groups

  • What is said or viewed in a breakout room is not captured in recordings.

  • Content shared in a breakout group is not available when breakout groups end. Consider suggesting attendees record their collaboration in some way if need - for example, a screen capture of anything they have shared and collaborated on.

  • If no one is left in the Main room the recording will stop.

How to Record

  1. From within the course, select Blackboard Collaborate Ultra from the Course Tools menu (or from the Collaborate link you have placed in your course menu).

  2. Join a session or enter the Course Room.

  3. Open the Sessions menu in the upper left corner, then select Start Recording. The recording camera icon appears with a red dot while recording is in progress.

  4. To finish recording, open the Session menu and select Stop Recording.

Locating Recordings

  1. From within the course, select Blackboard Collaborate Ultra from the Course Tools menu (or from the Collaborate link you have placed in your course menu).

  2. Click the menu in the upper left corner to view options.

  3. Select Recordings. 

Downloading Recordings

Instructors must allow session recording downloads for each session before recording. 

  1. Open a session's Session Settings.

  2. Check Allow recording downloads.

  3. From the Recordings Menu, locate the recording, then click the Recording Options button.

  4. Click Download. Recorded sessions are saved as MP4s files. 

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