Collaborate 2015 Tech PreviewWeekly Meeting | March 31

Agenda

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Update and Review

Whiteboard Discussion

Review new features

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Roadmap Discussion

Roadmap Prioritization

Future Topics

Update and Review

• Migrated to production environment• New rooms• More capacity

System Moved

• Stabilized many audio / video and device issues• Better Chrome and Flash experience

Updated Software

Feedback Review

• More academically focused features (roadmap discussion) • Better view for moderators with single screens• Chat panel display• Whiteboard (review today)• Follow the cursor in annotations• Participant functionality with Chat open (discuss

notifications)• Show speaker name when they are speaking• Ability to read chat, see view when away

We are listening …

Documentation Discussion

What is most important to you for documentation to cover and present as you prepare to implement / use?

http://bit.ly/collab15help

Roadmap Discussion: Whiteboard

Ignoring current product limitations, how would you like to use

interactive whiteboard to support your instruction?

Whiteboard Demo

Understood Whiteboard Enhancements

• Keep multiple pages open• Navigate back and forth between pages

Multiple pages / persistence

• Insertion and editing• Saving text

Rich Text

• Across sessions• Related to course?

Save and Reuse

New for this week

Notifications

• Join/Leave Session• Hand Raise• Many Notifications• Settings

Designed to enhance experience without cluttered interface

• http://bit.ly/joincarlm

Quick Demo

Presenter Role

• Feedback from existing Collab users• Allows App/File Share and WB• Can annotate along with moderators• Note: Currently a few error states when user is

promoted/demoted

The need for alternate presenters who should not moderate

• http://bit.ly/joincarlm

Quick Demo

Roadmap Discussion: Break out rooms

Ignoring current product limitations, how would you like to use breakout rooms to support your instruction?

Roadmap Discussion: Attendance

Tell us about your needs with respect to attendance tracking

and reporting?

Roadmap Prioritization

This exercise will directly help us prioritize for Fall “back to school”

and early adopters

General Availability > End of Q2 Release Overview

High Quality Audio & Video

High Quality Appshare

Share and Annotate PPT / PDF / Whiteboard

Add / Edit Profile

Device Config UI Help

Main Room Chat

View Participants

Raise Hand / Go Away

Version 1.0 – GA Release End of Q2 Targets

Moderator, Presenter and

Participant Roles

Basic Moderator Controls

SAS Session Management

MP4 Recordings

WCAG 2.0 Accessibility

5 Languages

Basic Session Scale 75-100 Participants

Blackboard Learn 2015 integration

Blackboard Learn 9.1 / Enterprise

Integration

Moodle Integration

LTI Support

Collaborate 2015 API Updates

Worldwide Availability

20+ Languages

Live Session Closed Captioning

WCAG 2.0 AA Certification

VPAT

Increased Session Scale (100+)

Preload Session Content in SAS

If I had $100/£100 …

Moderator/Private Chat

Polling & Real-time comprehension

Whiteboard Improvements

Lesson Plan (PLAN)

Native session recording / playback

Telephony

Break-out rooms

Closed Captioning

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Collaborate 2015 Roadmap Priorities

Telephony

Break-out rooms Native session recording and in-browser playback

Persistent content repository Lesson Plan

Polling & Real-time comprehension

Whiteboard Improvements

Upload/Playback Multimedia files

Moderator/Private Chat Granular Permission Toggles

Time

Expanded Session Scale (~200)

Expanded Session Scale (~400)

Future priorities subject to change based onbeta and early adopter feedback

Wrap Up

First Survey

Future Topics

• Learn, Moodle and LTI• Scheduled 4/14

LMS Integration

• Approach and gotchas• Scheduled 4/7

Continuous Delivery

• Guest Presenter: Dan Loury• Scheduled 4/21

Bb Student Mobile Solution

Testing this week!

• Please remember to have Flash installed prior• Exercise all available functionality

Browsers!

Are we ready to try a small class?

• Specifically interested in other notification needs

Notifications

Scheduled Updates

• System Update: Friday, April 3 from 8-10 AM EDT

• Lots of audio/video/device fixes and stability• Firewall issues resolution

• Major Upgrade: Friday, April 10 from 8-10 EDT

• SAS Session creating and launching• Recordings• Optimized audio/video streams

Continued feedback on user experience and additional test scenarios

Next Week

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Continuous Delivery Roadmap Discussion2.

Survey Review3.

4. Lots more participants!