Elluminat Startup Slides

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Wimba Classroom best practice and discussion
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Recording this session

• I would like to record this session and use it in
  the following ways
• make it available to other students in this
  course
• use it to demonstrate the use of Wimba to other
  USQ staff
• If you agree that the session can be recorded,
  please click the tick button to put a tick next
  to your name in the PEOPLE window.

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Where do virtual classrooms fit

• just another tool in the blended learning
  environment which will suit some (but not others)
• students
• teachers
• content areas
• educational strategies
• no longer an innovation but business as usual
  in education and wider society
• EDUCAUSE
• 7 things you should know about Virtual Meetings
• http//net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7011.pdf
  (over 3 years ago)

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using Wimba Classroom in your course

• encourage participants to attend an online Wimba
  Classroom Orientation session http//usqstudydesk.
  usq.edu.au/course/view.php?id5322
• Create the Wimba room
• Create a Moodle Activity using that room
• participants vote on best time for the session
• Tell everyone that they need to use the SetUp
  Wizard well before the session and follow the
  prompts to get 6 ticks or contact ICTServiceDesk

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Wimba Classroom Orientation
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Creating a Wimba room

• Add Moodle Activity - Live Classrooms
• Create a new room with an obvious title e.g.
  "FOE1000 drop-in room" or "fet8611 tutorial room"
• set room
• permissions,
• default media bandwidth, room features
• allow guests, URL backdoor, add dial in number
  and pin to the activity link
• advanced room settings
• enable breakout rooms
• advanced media settings
• WimbaMedia or phone and video settings

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Setting up the activity

• Create the Wimba activity
• activity name (e.g. tutorial in Week 5)
• select the associated room
• dates and times in the Moodle calendar and events
• allow people to choose when they can attend
• Strongly advise people to run the Setup Wizard 5
  days before
• invite people into the session
• get people to prepare for the session
• orient people to the session

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Polls, voting and surveys

• facilitator can setup interactive polls allowing
  voting before the session
• show the poll
• preview the results
• show the results
• facilitator can setup surveys which you can do
  after the session
• results are only visible to the facilitator
• OK lets see some examples

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Creating polls and surveys

• click Manage Live Classrooms in Moodle
• create a folder to put it in
• create the item
• multiple-choice
• questionnaire

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To make a session archive (1)

• Records text, audio, video, eboard, screen
  sharing
• To start the archive, click the round Archive
  button at top right (you will hear a confirmation
  message)
• To stop the archive, click the (round red Archive
  button at the top right (you will hear several
  confirmation messages)
• the archive is not accessible in the course until
  you have made it available

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To make the archive available

• in Moodle click Live classrooms in side menu
• click Manage Classrooms
• scroll to name of the room and click
• click the date and time stamped archive then
  click Settings
• change the name to something better e.g.
  "Tutorial 5 ParaPsychology March 5 at 9pm"
• click Access and put a tick next to Make
  Available
• archive now be visible to students (green circle)

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For students to replay the archive

• click Live classrooms in the Activity box in
  Moodle side menu
• you can select the Instructor or Student view to
  make sure that student can see the archive
• scroll and then highlight the name of the archive
• click Launch
• the Wimba window will then open and the archive
  will start playing
• once it starts playing you can jump around by
  clicking the time stamped names of sections in
  the right hand panel

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Room pulse and settings
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Supporting students

• add a link to the Wimba Classroom Orientation
  course into your course
• http//usqstudydesk.usq.edu.au/course/view.php?id
  5322
• recommend students book into a session so when
  they use Wimba in your course they can focus on
  course content
• use the setup Wizard to get 6 ticks against all
  tests and follow the prompts

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Setup Wizard

• Everyone MUST use at least once to check each of
  6 elements
• Popup Blockers
• Presence of Java
• Presence of Wimba applets
• Text connection
• Audio output
• Audio input
• If you don't get ticks, follow prompts and enter
  email for detailed follow-up email support

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USQ Escalation process

• Wizard generated request to NetSpot and email
  reply from NetSpot
• ICTServiceDesk (1900)
• Level 2 support (3 USQ staff)
• 3 designated USQ staff can contact NetSpot

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Ways of using Wimba

• teaching, administration, research, support,
  community engagement
• on campus, external, cross campus, time shifting
• phone, phone computer or computer only
• participant and presenter interface is currently
  Moodle based
• system administrator will have web based
  interface to Wimba server

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Preparing and presenting debates in Law

• Critical importance of being able to present a
  debate graduate quality skill
• First time this could be done with external
  students
• Students organise their preparation sessions
  themselves
• presented in a formal presentation room
• Use of PowerPoint to manage debate and present
  timer

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Student group work in Engineering

• Groups of 6 students meeting many times
  throughout the semester
• Could use whatever they wanted to work
• Phone, face to face, Skype, messenger, email,
  moodle forums
• Probably 60 opted to use Wimba Classroom after
  being given one short introduction
• Most opted to make a recording of the session
  even through others could look at it

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Student run drop in sessions

• Students can organise whenever they want
• Students have access to all the tools in these
  sessions

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Service delivery

• Allows campus based face to face services to be
  delivered to external students for the first time
• Critical given that 80 of out students are
  remote
• PD and support for partners and agents
• Career services
• Library
• Counselling services

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Best practice guidelines

• organise materials that you can talk to or
  discuss so you are not talking all the time
• PowerPoint slides
• showing a web page
• application sharing to show part of the course or
  a process
• hand raise to talk

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Encourage questions discussion

• ask people questions and to raise their hand with
  replies
• put people into breakout groups to discuss
  something then come back to report to the group
• encourage and request people to use status
  buttons and text to give feedback
• use it to establish ongoing student driven study
  groups

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setup student driven study groups

• setup a Wimba room called study group room
  where everyone is a presenter
• setup a forum so they can organise times

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Encourage group or individual student
presentations
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Improving your skills

• Documentation at http//www.wimba.com/services/ins
  tructor/classroom/
• QuickStart training at http//www.wimba.com/servic
  es/instructor/classroom/
• use two computers so you can see exactly what
  others see
• observe someone doing a session
• do a session with another person to assist

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http//wimba.com

• quickstart video guides
• documentation
• Classroom presenter/user guide
• Room administration guide
• Moodle users guide
• System Administration guide
• knowledgeBase
• Level 1 support via live chat

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Wimba Voice tools

• (currently not installed on USQStudyDesk)
• Voice Board
• threaded voice board
• export to iPod
• Podcaster
• one click podcasting and subscribing
• .mp3 and .wav
• Presenter
• web content and voice narration
• Voice recorder

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Wimba Pronto messenger

• (currently not available)
• text, voice, video and screen sharing
• online presence indicators
• chat with 2 or more participants
• offline messages are queued
• contacts are imported from courses

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Wrap-up

• Questions
• Evaluation
• in Wimba room
• DICT evaluation
• follow-up