Question and Answer Session for Nonprofit Leadership Faculty

Facilitator: Peggy McCoeyAssistant Professor and Program Director

MS in Computer Information ScienceMS in Information Technology Leadership

MS in Economic Crime Forensics

Facilitator: Regina HierholzerDirector of Online Programs

Agenda

•Overall Session– Your questions and concerns about what to

expect for teaching online

•Additional Tasks– Using application share– Presenting online

• This is your session!• Please do not hesitate to ask anything! • Please use the hand raise for your question…

Questions?

Application Sharing

• What is it?

• Where to find it?• We’ll start it, then you’ll try it…

Application Share What is it?

• Share application(s) running on your desktop– Share a region or your entire desktop– Have another person control your desktop or

application– View and control another person’s desktop or

application

• When you begin sharing, your content will appear on the screen for your students.

How to us APP SHARE

• First you need to make sure that the application you wish to share is OPEN already on your machine.

• Second find the APP SHARE resource either by using the ICON or from the TOOLS drop down menu.

Where to find it

Icon for Application SharingMenu

Next steps

• You will get a list of the open applications on your machine. Select the one you want to share.

• Click on the share option at the bottom.

Click on App Share Icon

This is what you will see. Notice the line around the app and the three buttons at the top right.

Used to control APP share

What do the icons mean?

1. First icon is a black square and it is used to stop the sharing.2.Second icon is two black lines and it is used to pause the sharing.3.Third icon looks like a camera. It captures the current image on the screen and places it on the whiteboard. The app share is also stopped at that time.

When app share is running, you can determine the person sharing the app by looking at the list of participants. See the next slide.

Indicates the person who is sharing the application.

Other considerations

• When you record a session with app share, the screen captures are saved in the recording.

• You can share someone else’s desktop or give someone else permission to control the cursor on your desktop.

• We will try to demo this, but you should set a session with a partner and test it.

Getting control of another person’s desktop

• The person whose desktop you wish to share needs to have permission for app share. You may need to enable that tool.

• The next slide shows how to make sure the permission is allowed.

• Locate the person whose desktop you wish to share. Right click on the person and select the icon for app share and click on it. This turns on the permission.

Right-click on name and select Application Sharing.

Now the participant has app share enabled.The moderator may request desktop control.Go to the TOOLS optionSelect Application SharingSelect Desktop Control

The user will see a pop-up indicating someone has requested control of the desktop. Click YES. The moderator and participant both can control the participant’s desktop. To stop sharing type CTRL-S.

Participant Request Cursor Control

• In this picture, the participant has app share enabled.

• The participant may click on REQUEST CUSROR CONTROL.

• The moderator may grant control or not.

Giving Control of Shared Apps

• The moderator can right click on participant name and select GIVE CONTROL OF SHARED APPS to give the selected participant control of the desktop.

• Remember to take away control type CTRL-S, or select option TAKE AWAY CONTROL OF SHARED APPLICATIONS.

Suggestions for using this feature

• Test starting, stopping, pausing and resuming an app.

• Work with a fellow colleague and try sharing the control.

• More detailed information may be found in the manual, chapter 13. Here is the link to the manual.

Sharing Files with StudentsFile Transfer Library

Used to give participants a copy of a file you are using during a

presentation.

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You put the file in the File Transfer LibraryAfter the file loads, the participants may Download it from the library.

To put the file in the library, select, File From the drop-down select OPENFrom the next drop-down select File for Transfer

You can also get to the File Transfer Library by Selecting Window and then from the nextdrop-down select Show File Transfer Library

Displays transfer library

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Select first Icon to add a file to the libraryBrowse to it on your computer.

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After you find the file select open

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File completes uploading. When done, you Can instruct participants to download to theirPersonal machines.

When the download is complete, you can click on the file. This selects it and then click on the last button.

This will send a prompt to the participants to download the file.

Participants may click on the 3rd icon which will allow them to save the file.

Presenting Online

• Preparing and loading your presentation• PowerPoint conversion process• Controlling• Moving through the “page explorer”• Loading more and on the spot

Click on the optionLOAD CONTENT.Browse to your fileClick OPEN

Collaborate imports the content to its format.That is what is happening here.

The first slide is displayed and navigator appears.This lists small icons for each slide.

You can ANCHOR this explorer by clicking here.

You can use these arrows to move between slides. The drop-down arrow will give you a list of all your slides, so you can jump out of sequence.

Questions?