{"id":872,"date":"2020-08-05T01:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/?p=872"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T04:38:55","slug":"collaborate-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/2020\/08\/05\/collaborate-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborate upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Collaborate is upgraded on a regular basis? Updates can involve minor fixes or major changes and are always designed to improve performance. Since COVID19, a lot of security fixes have been added and some functions have been upgraded to help with the extra usage. Whether you\u2019re a regular or occasional user of Collaborate, it is useful to know what upgrades have happened, and what is in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the upgrades that have happened over the past 12 months are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Collaborate\/Ultra\/Administrator\/About_Collaborate\/Browser_Support\">Updated browser support<\/a> \u2013 the most recent versions of Chrome or Firefox are supported (July 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Session owners and admins can <a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Collaborate\/Ultra\/Moderator\/Schedule_Sessions\/Session_Settings#recording_settings\">download recordings<\/a> (June 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Can now share an additional camera (June 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Layout changes to the create and edit session functionality (June 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Downloadable poll results (June 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Additional security measures for Collaborate (guest link off as default) (May 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Collaborate\/Ultra\/Administrator\/Manage_Sessions#webinar\">Webinar mode<\/a> now allows for 250+ attendees (April 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Removal of the Timer function (March 2020)<\/li>\n<li>New and improved emojis (October 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Collaborate\/Ultra\/Moderator\/Moderate_Sessions\/Share_Content#video\">share video from Chrome<\/a> (October 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Collaborate\/Ultra\/Moderator\/Moderate_Sessions\/Breakout_groups\">share content to breakout groups<\/a> and save breakout group files (Jul 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the updates that are coming:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secure recording links (Aug 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Profanity filter on chat (Aug 2020)<\/li>\n<li>New whiteboard interface (TBD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Collaborate is upgraded on a regular basis? Updates can involve minor fixes or major changes and are always designed to improve performance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flo"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/cilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}