How can I create a custom session in Class Collaborate?

Overview

Custom sessions provide instructors with a means of generating controlled and focused conversation among their students, in a setting similar to a physical classroom. There are a number of reasons you may want to create scheduled sessions when you have a course room. Two examples are:

• Supervised sessions: When the course room is unlocked anyone can join the session at any time. Instructors don't have to be present for students to join the session. If you don't want students to join a session unsupervised, lock the course room and create scheduled sessions.

• Multiple sessions at once: If you want to run multiple sessions at the same time for students to use as virtual study room, for example, you can create multiple sessions for the different groups to join.

Tell Me

5. Name your session and choose from a variety of settings under Event Details and Session Settings, including:

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  • Session start and end times.

    • Sessions that last longer than 12 hours are disconnected. Recordings also limited to 8 hours.

    • Class Collaborate uses your computer’s local time zone for session start and end times.

  • Allowing early arrivals into the room before the session starts.

    • Guest access is off by default to limit access to authenticated attendees. If you want to keep your session secure, don't use guest links.

    • TIP → How do students access my Class Collaborate session or course room?

  • Allowing recording downloads.

  • Anonymizing chat messages.

  • Allowing users to join the session using a telephone.

  • Turning on and off students’ ability to:

    • Display their profile picture.

    • Draw or write on the session whiteboard.

    • Post a chat message.

    • Share their audio or video with session participants.