Downloading Blackboard Collaborate Recordings

This training guide describes the basic steps required to download content from Blackboard Collaborate.

Click on the Blackboard Collaborate activity to open it. The recording should be listed (see image below of view in Moodle).

Image of Blackboard Collaborate player view that will open after clicking recording title in Moodle.

The icon appears as a tab rounded on the right side with three horizontal lines in its centre (see image below).

Image of icon to open the Session Menu.

A compressed .mp4 file will download that includes the video, shared content such as slides, audio and the ‘Everyone’ chat channel.

Image of Session Menu with ‘Download Recording’ as first option.

The recording’s transcript and chat can each be downloaded separately.

Closed captions can be downloaded a .vtt file to be used for video subtitling/closed captioning in Lecturecast or Mediacentral.

Your UCL OneDrive account is the recommended storage space to retain a personal copy of downloaded Blackboard Collaborate recordings given its security and stability.

This option is ideal for storing recordings if they are not immediately needed but will later be uploaded and shared via Lecturecast or Mediacentral.

More information on saving to your OneDrive can be found in this Sharepoint file (requires UCL login).

Lecturecast

Recordings that are used in teaching and learning, with access that should be restricted only to those on a specific module should be uploaded to Lecturecast.

Once you have downloaded your Blackboard Collaborate recordings, you can upload them to Lecturecast by carrying out the following:

Please also see links within the Lecturecast Resource Centre wiki for:

Mediacentral

Recordings that need only be restricted to all UCL users, or should not have any restrictions and be publicly available without a UCL login, should be uploaded to Mediacentral.

Recordings that will be publicly available without restrictions should be set in the category ‘Public Access’. Please see the Upload and Edit instructions in the Mediacentral user guidance.

The category ‘Personal (Public)’ should be used for recordings restricted to a specific group of users. Please see this guidance on locating the unique share code for sharing recordings with specific users.

The Media Resource activity in Moodle can also be used to upload and share content within a Moodle course. More information can be found in this Mediacentral guidance.