Ingredients:

•  Collaborate Session in Blackboard

• If your session has ended skip to step 7

Directions:

1. Go to Blackboard collaborate sessions in your course.

2. Click on the session.

3. Scroll on the right down to session settings.

4. Open the session settings. 

5. Check the box to Allow Recording Downloads.

6. And Save.

If the session has already ended

 If your session has ended and you did not previously allow for recording downloads, continue:

1. Find the previous session you need by clicking the down triangle by All Upcoming Sessions.

2. Select all previous sessions.

3. Find your session and select it by clicking on the name
   of the session.

4. Scroll down to event details and change the end date to
   today and the time to the current time plus 3 minutes.

5. Click save.

6. Change the session listing back to all upcoming sessions by clicking the down triangle by all previous sessions.

7. Now follow steps 2-6 from above.

**These steps may not work for recurring/repeating sessions if they happened in the past.  It will work to change the settings for all future sessions.

** You now can download your recording. A video of How to Allow Recording Downloads in a Collaborate Session (even after the session) may help.