Create Live Meetings
from within your Blackboard Course Site
Ever wish you could quickly create online meetings, or wish you could find some easy way to conduct online office hours or special tutoring sessions? LiveOnline@UT just might be the answer for you. LiveOnline@UT is a powerful tool for online multiple-user interaction and course organization that includes real-time two-way audio, application sharing, web browsing, white boarding, content viewing and markup, and text chatting.

The LiveOnline@UT (Centra) Building Block for Online@UT (Blackboard) allows instructors to create Centra events from within their Blackboard course sites. The Building Block gives instructors the ability to add a LiveOnline Event to Content Areas and lead these events from the resulting links within their Blackboard course site. Students enrolled in the course site are automatically given access to the online meeting via the link created by the instructor. These live sessions allow instructors to meet with students in an online room to review content, conduct virtual office hours and help sessions, or facilitate other online meeting needs instructors might have. LiveOnline events can accommodate up to 50 people at a time, including the instructor, and are not currently recorded for playback.

To create a LiveOnline (Centra) event in your course site:

• Go to the Control Panel of you course site.
• Choose the content area into which you want to add the LiveOnline event.
• From the add content dropdown menu, select "LiveOnline Event." and click on "go."
• Complete the Create Centra Event form by entering the event name, date, time, and duration. The description field is optional.
• Submit the form. A link to the event will be created for you in the designated content area.
• You and your students will then access the event by clicking on the "Attend" link.