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Elluminate’s Academic Edition: An Overview

Vicki Galloway Harsh, Sr. Instructional Design ConsultantAcademic Services

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Moderator Interface


Classroom Management

Connection Speed

Attendee List

Privileges– Granting individually or simultaneously

Hand Raising– Notifications

– Sequencing

– Lowering

Emoticons

Activity Indicators


Classroom Management

Stepped Away

Management Tools– Remove participants– Give and take moderator privileges

Multiple Moderators


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


Audio Window

Optimal Microphone Setting

Audio Set Up Utility

Adjusting Participant’s Volume

Audio Status Indicators Regaining Control of the

Microphone


The Toolbar

Contains buttons for some of the common commands you may use during a session.


Polling

Types– Tools Polling

Show / Hide responses

Show statistics

Clear responses


Live Video

Enable Video

Show / Hide Video Window

Preview / Transmit

– Image Quality Selections – Video Privilege

– Video Status Indicators


Whiteboard Tools

Tools

Tool Settings– Colour Palette, Line Thickness

Deleting Objects


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


Images

Load Image Tool

Image File Selection– Load Pre-existing Images– Image Files

Formats supported: GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF


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


Screen Capture (App Snap)™

Load Image Tool– Obtain a static image of your entire desktop or a selected area


Whiteboard Content

Load button

– Load Whiteboard, PowerPoint, StarOffice, OpenOffice presentations and image files

– Can also use the file menu: File Load

Whiteboard Status Indicators


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

http://www.elluminate.com/ support/


Whiteboard Navigation

Navigation Arrows or Drop-down


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


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


Saving & Printing Screens

Save Screens– As a Whiteboard File

(can be protected)– As a PDF File– Individually as Image Files

Print Screens


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


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


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


Breakout Rooms

On-the-fly– Automatically open and

close room

Formal – Create rooms and pre-load

content, then move participants


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


Quiz Manager

Enable the Quiz Manager

Begin from Library Tab

– Create, Load, Administer

and Grade Quizzes


Creating Quizzes

Design Tab (accessible from Library tab using )

– Multiple-choice– Short-answer questions


Administering Quizzes

Quiz Tab (accessible fromLibrary using )

– Time limit– Stop quiz – Results summary– Publish results


Multimedia

Library

(Pre-) Load files and initiate playback– Mpeg, QuickTime, Flash – Participants will need the necessary plug-ins

Download Status Indicators


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