It is now possible to access a Blackboard Collaborate Ultra session directly from your mobile phone without needing to download the Blackboard mobile app. When you access a link from your email, or from Blackboard Learn in your mobile phone web browser, you will be given an option Join from Browser to immediately access a session.

Note: If  you're not seeing the Join from Browser option above, make sure you're opening  the session in a full web browser Safari (on iOS) or Chrome (on  Android). When opening a session from within another app (e.g. Slack)  the join from browser option is not available. You'll need to copy /  "open with" the session in the web browser.

Mobile browser experience for Collaborate Ultra

Chat using the mobile browser experience 

Polling using the mobile browser experience

Users joining from a link will still be able to open a session in the Blackboard and Blackboard Instructor apps and sessions accessed from Learn will still be launched from the Blackboard and Blackboard Instructor apps.