1. Elluminate’s Academic Edition: An Overview Vicki Galloway Harsh, Sr. Instructional Design Consultant Academic Services

2. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Moderator Interface

3. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Classroom Management  Connection Speed  Attendee List  Privileges – Granting individually or simultaneously  Hand Raising – Notifications – Sequencing – Lowering  Emoticons  Activity Indicators

4. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Classroom Management  Stepped Away  Management Tools – Remove participants – Give and take moderator privileges  Multiple Moderators

5. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

6. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Audio Window  Optimal Microphone Setting  Audio Set Up Utility  Adjusting Participant’s Volume  Audio Status Indicators  Regaining Control of the Microphone

7. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 The Toolbar Contains buttons for some of the common commands you may use during a session.

8. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Polling  Types – Tools  Polling  Show / Hide responses  Show statistics  Clear responses

9. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Live Video  Enable Video  Show / Hide Video Window  Preview / Transmit – Image Quality Selections – Video Privilege – Video Status Indicators

10. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Whiteboard Tools  Tools  Tool Settings – Colour Palette, Line Thickness  Deleting Objects

11. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

12. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Images  Load Image Tool  Image File Selection – Load Pre-existing Images – Image Files  Formats supported: GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIF

13. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

14. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Screen Capture (App Snap)™  Load Image Tool – Obtain a static image of your entire desktop or a selected area

15. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Whiteboard Content  Load button – Load Whiteboard, PowerPoint, StarOffice, OpenOffice presentations and image files – Can also use the file menu: File  Load Whiteboard Status Indicators

16. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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/ http://www.elluminate.com/ support/

17. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Whiteboard Navigation  Navigation Arrows or Drop-down

18. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

19. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

20. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Saving & Printing Screens  Save Screens – As a Whiteboard File (can be protected) – As a PDF File – Individually as Image Files  Print Screens

21. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

22. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

23. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

24. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Breakout Rooms  On-the-fly – Automatically open and close room  Formal – Create rooms and pre-load content, then move participants

25. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 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

26. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Quiz Manager  Enable the Quiz Manager  Begin from Library Tab – Create, Load, Administer and Grade Quizzes

27. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Creating Quizzes  Design Tab (accessible from Library tab using ) – Multiple-choice – Short-answer questions

28. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Administering Quizzes  Quiz Tab (accessible from Library using ) – Time limit – Stop quiz – Results summary – Publish results

29. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Multimedia  Library  (Pre-) Load files and initiate playback – Mpeg, QuickTime, Flash – Participants will need the necessary plug-ins  Download Status Indicators

30. Copyright© eCollege.com 2006 Thank you! Your questions!