Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a high quality, browser-based web conference platform integrated into your Humber BlackBoard courses. It provides a more collaborative, interactive, and mobile-friendly way for you, your instructor, and your classmates to learn together.

Through Blackboard Collaborate Ultra your instructor may schedule real-time webinars in the course. Students at a point may be required to attend an online session. To access the session from the Humber Blackboard course site, you need to follow the instructions to learn how to access it.

Remember that your instructor controls the tools which are available. If you are unable to access it then it mean your instructor has disabled it.

How to join a blackboard collaborate ultra session

1. If your instructor has set up a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session for a certain time, you will log into Humber Blackboard within that time frame and click on Blackboard Collaborate Ultra on the left hand menu bar as shown in the image below:
2. Click on the Name of the session that your instructor has created:
3. You will now be entered into the Blackboard Collaborate Session. If this is the first time you have accessed a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session, you will be presented with an orientation tour as shown below:
4. After the tour, you will be prompted to set up your microphone and web cam so you can start collaborating as shown in the image below. Be sure to set up your microphone/speakers and web cam.
5. You will now join the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra webinar for your course.
6. Once you have joined a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session, click on the white action arrow at the bottom right corner of the screen.
7. This will open the chat screen where you can view previous messages sent by other classmates or your instructor.
8. At the bottom of the screen, type your message in the textbox that reads “Say something…” and press the Enter key on your keyboard to send the chat message.