Scheduling a Collaborate session in ANGEL

Begin on your ANGEL course homepage.

The Elluminate Live! nugget is the Collaborate nugget that we will be using throughout this presentation.

Students can then search for the desired session. They insert a date in the boxes above and click “Go”.

Students are able to search for sessions within this nugget. The student will need to click on Live or Recordings indicating which they are searching for.

To begin creating a session in ANGEL, click on the pencil icon that appears when you mouse inside the nugget.

This will take you to the Session Editor

The session editor allows you to search for sessions the same way a student can in the nugget. ** Remember, you must select Live or Recordings BEFORE clicking on “Go”.

From the session editor you will click on “Add Session” to schedule a new Collaborate session.

This will take you to the next section of the Session Editor, it contains 4 tabs to review.

Tab 1 - Session

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Session name is a required field. It can be a generic name that can be changed later for a more specific purpose.

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The date can be added by clicking on the calendar icon and selecting the date of your first session. Remember, if you are creating a session that will repeat, you will have to select an end date.

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When scheduling the time in the Session Editor, it MUST be scheduled according to Eastern Standard Time (EST). You will also need to take Daylight Savings Time (DST) into consideration.

If you do not put the time in this section of scheduling as EST, you will get an Error message when you try to create your session.

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This repeat option allows you to create a session for the whole semester. If your first date is a Monday, and you repeat weekly, it will put a session on every Monday until your end date. You will need to create a new session for another day of the week if needed.

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When you click the “Save To Calendar” it will place a reminder on the ANGEL calendar and the time displayed will be MST. Your students will also see the session listed on their homepage in MST.

Tab 2 - Session Access

Session Access is the amount of time BEFORE a session begins that students can enter early.

Tab 3 - Moderators & Participants

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1 Restrict Participants gives the instructor the ability to restrict a sub-group of the participants from the Collaborate session. Not pertinent to most MCC classes.

2 All moderators allows the instructor to make everyone in the class a moderator.

3 If you need to make a few students moderators and leave others as participants you can manipulate that here, if you do nothing on this tab, everyone will be participants and you will be moderator.

Tab 3 - Session Attributes

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1 Recording mode is for manual start of recording by you or an automatic start by Collaborate as soon as you log on.

2 Maximum Simultaneous Talkers refers to the number of people who can talk at the same time during the Collaborate class.

3 The last three attributes can be controlled within Collaborate, but if you wish to mark them here you can.

**Supervised refers to private messaging in the Chat box, it allows you to see all private messages.

**All permissions, enables audio, video, and chat box for participants upon entry into the Collaborate session.**Raise Hand on Entry give you a signal when participants enter the session.

Once you have finished with the tabs, you can now click the “Create” button!

If you did everything correctly you will see this screen. It is not critical for you to send an email to every student, it will be visible on their ANGEL calendar and on their ANGEL homepage. So, just click “Continue without sending confirmation email”.

There is a possibility of getting an error message, so let’s look at those now.

This message will appear if you tried to create a session where you did not use EST or you did not take Daylight Savings Time into account. Double check those times and click “Create” again.

Stop and double check that end date. If you are creating a repeating session the end date must be later than the start date.

Oops! You forgot the Session Name. Easy Fix!

You have created a Collaborate session in ANGEL. If you need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact us.