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Elluminate’s Academic Edition: An Overview
Vicki Galloway Harsh, Sr. Instructional Design ConsultantAcademic Services
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Classroom Management
Connection Speed
Attendee List
Privileges– Granting individually or simultaneously
Hand Raising– Notifications
– Sequencing
– Lowering
Emoticons
Activity Indicators
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Classroom Management
Stepped Away
Management Tools– Remove participants– Give and take moderator privileges
Multiple Moderators
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Direct Messaging Window
Send messages to: – All participants– One participant– A selected group of participants
Public and Private Messages: Moderator sees all!
– Color coded (Black--general, Blue—to moderator, Red—between participants)
Insert Date / Time Stamps Save Direct Messages: File ->
Save ->Direct Message Conversation
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Audio Window
Optimal Microphone Setting
Audio Set Up Utility
Adjusting Participant’s Volume
Audio Status Indicators Regaining Control of the
Microphone
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The Toolbar
Contains buttons for some of the common commands you may use during a session.
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Polling
Types– Tools Polling
Show / Hide responses
Show statistics
Clear responses
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Live Video
Enable Video
Show / Hide Video Window
Preview / Transmit
– Image Quality Selections – Video Privilege
– Video Status Indicators
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Whiteboard Tools
Tools
Tool Settings– Colour Palette, Line Thickness
Deleting Objects
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Whiteboard Objects
Selecting Objects– All objects on the whiteboard are dynamic– Copy / Cut / Paste / Delete– Group / Ungroup– Background / Foreground– Move to Front / Back– Edit Text
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Images
Load Image Tool
Image File Selection– Load Pre-existing Images– Image Files
Formats supported: GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF
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Images, continued
Screen Captures– Entire Desktop or Selected Area– Participants can show their work
from any application– Moderators can show
applications, web pages, documents
Clip Art: add to from Tools menu
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Screen Capture (App Snap)™
Load Image Tool– Obtain a static image of your entire desktop or a selected area
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Whiteboard Content
Load button
– Load Whiteboard, PowerPoint, StarOffice, OpenOffice presentations and image files
– Can also use the file menu: File Load
Whiteboard Status Indicators
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PowerPoint Converter and Presentation Wizard for Elluminate Live!
Allows you to create high resolution, larger size whiteboard presentations
Converts PowerPoint presentations, OpenOffice, StarOffice and PDF files to whiteboard files
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Navigation Permissions
Follow Moderator– Keeps participants locked on your current screen– Selected by default when you first join a classroom
Roam– Allows you to move through screens without affecting
others– Leaves participants locked on the same screen and
allows moderators to move though the screens– Must be used when Follow Moderator is selected
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Creating Whiteboard Screens
Screens– Insert, replace, as sub-topics– Create using button or
the File menu
Screen Groups– Separate whiteboard content,
for second or additional presentations
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Saving & Printing Screens
Save Screens– As a Whiteboard File
(can be protected)– As a PDF File– Individually as Image Files
Print Screens
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Application Sharing: Hosting
To begin sharing– Open the application(s) you wish to
share (if you can, you should do this
prior to the session). Do not
minimize.
– Click to select an application,
region or your entire desktop
– Windows are automatically resized
and repositioned based on your
Hosting Options
Stop Application Sharing or
Ctrl+End
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Application Sharing - Settings
Application Sharing Indicator Lights
– View which users have not received the content
– Red arrow shows who is sharing– You can give control of the
application to another user while still hosting– user will have orange halo when working in the application. To regain control, use Ctrl + Spacebar
Granting Privileges– Participants can also share
applications
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Remote Desktop Share: Between Moderators
Request control of another users’ desktop. (If a participant, the person must be made a moderator.)
Owner of desktop can end Desktop Share using the Ctrl + Space command
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Breakout Rooms
On-the-fly– Automatically open and
close room
Formal – Create rooms and pre-load
content, then move participants
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Web Tour
Launch
– Embedded window IE or Safari Synchronized by the moderator Participants can interact
individually Separate window for other
browsers
– One moderator is the “Tour Guide”
– Moderators and participants can interact individually
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Quiz Manager
Enable the Quiz Manager
Begin from Library Tab
– Create, Load, Administer
and Grade Quizzes
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Creating Quizzes
Design Tab (accessible from Library tab using )
– Multiple-choice– Short-answer questions
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Administering Quizzes
Quiz Tab (accessible fromLibrary using )
– Time limit– Stop quiz – Results summary– Publish results
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Multimedia
Library
(Pre-) Load files and initiate playback– Mpeg, QuickTime, Flash – Participants will need the necessary plug-ins
Download Status Indicators