Department of Physics
Research, teaching and outreach in Physics at UW–Madison

Using an iPad

There are two main ways to use an iPad in a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra presentation.

  1. Share the iPad screen through a computer connected to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (mac with wire, mac or windows PC wirelessly)
    • Any iPad app can be used (e.g. PowerPoint, illustration programs, and so on).
    • The iPad app may provide better tools for drawing than Blackboard’s drawing tools.
    • The iPad app may provide the ability to save the annotations made during the presentation, unlike Blackboard.
  2. Connect to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra from the iPad and present using a shared file
    • Does not require anything but the iPad.
    • Cannot share the iPad screen, so cannot use PowerPoint or other iPad apps.
    • Can page through slides, draw on them and point to things using Blackboard drawing tools. Handwriting is not very legible when using the Blackboard drawing tools.