Working with the virtual class

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Working with the virtual class

• Elluminate Live!
• Teachers interface
• eTeacher Ltd. 2010

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Delay
If you experience a delay Go to the Tools menu-
and choose the option Preferences In the next
window scroll down until you find the option
Session-gtConnection Lower your connection speed
to ISDN Click OK If still there is a delay, lower
the speed again You can ask the students to do
the same if they experience a delay
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The interface
Participants list
Whiteboard
Chat
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Audio Setup Wizard

• Test your sound settings, by clicking on the
  Tools button from the top menu, clicking on
  Audio, and then --gt Audio Setup Wizard.

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Audio Setup Wizard

• Click OK to select your Audio Output Device

This is the time to test your headphones click
on Play to listen. The volume can be adjusted
by dragging its controller left and right. Once
the volume is adjusted to your needs, click on
the Stop button.
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Audio Setup Wizard

• click Yes when this following
• window appears

And now, you will adjust your microphone volume.
In this following window, select Mic Volume and
click OK.
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Audio Setup Wizard
make sure the selection circle is next to the
Multiple Speakers option. To test your
microphone, click on Record and speak into your
microphone. Small yellow bars will appear in the
volume display window, if you are heard. When you
are finished testing the microphone, click on
Stop.

• in the window that will appear
• after that, click Play to listen to your
  recording.

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Sound- prevent/reduce echo
Click the Tools button from the top menu in
class, and then go to Preferences
(1) Once the Preferences window is open, click on
Microphone Settings from the left side Pane
(under Audio) (2) UNCHECK the "Amplify quiet
sounds from microphone dynamically" option.
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Recording the meeting

• Once the teacher enters the class, the recording
  will start automatically.
• An indication whether the lesson is recorded can
  be found at the bottom of the screen
• Recordings will become available for students a
  few hours after the end of the lesson.

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Raise Hand and Emoticons

• All participants inside the class (including the
  teacher) are able to express themselves using
  Emoticons.
• To stop the blue bar indication of Hands Raised
  click it once.

Disapproval
Applause
Laughter
Confusion
Yes
No
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Chatting

• Use the text box to send messages
• Choose the recipient and click Send

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Speaking in class

• There are two ways to speak inside the class
• CTRL F2 will enable / disable the microphone.
• Using the Microphone button at the bottom left
  side of the screen
• While speaking the microphone icon will show a
  yellow background and colored bars will appear in
  the volume bar

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Speaking in class

• The microphone volume level will be automatically
  adjusted while speaking.
• The class, by default, will allow up to six
  simultaneous speakers.
• The seventh student will see the speaking button
  grayed-out until another student releases his Mic
  (Including the teacher)

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Participants privileges

• By default, all participants can speak,
  chat(i.e. using text), draw, send video, share
  applications.
• The teacher can change individual privileges by
  clicking once next to the participants name on
  the participant list.
• The teacher can remove a specific privilege from
  all of the students at once, by clicking the icon
  in the headline of the column.

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Yellow background indicates that this privilege
is in use right now.
Orange square indicates that this participant
experience a delay (in this case in the sound).
Red and orange squares together are indication
for a longer delay. ( from time to time you will
see the Delay indications on the other
privileges- for example delay in getting the
video when this indication is on the webcam icon)

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Starting the video

• To start your video, use the video icon(with the
  eye) at the top menu
• After the video window will appear
• Click the Preview button to checkyour video
  feed.
• Use the drop-down menu to changeQuality (default
  - Medium color).
• Click Transmit to start sending thevideo.
  "Transmit again will stop your video.
• To stop and hide the video window (of the other
  participants too) click on the camera with a red
  x above it (you will see this icon instead of the
  camera with an eye icon)
• when the first (from left) camera icon is
  released (not pressed down), it takes the video
  privilege from everyone.

Change size- smaller/larger windows
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Using your plan

• Once inside the class, an additional window will
  appear The Plan window. (if you lost it go to
  Window menu and select session plan.)
• Use the plan window to open the preloaded
  content.
• Actions like play multimedia and
• Go to web tour URL, will appear only
• in the plan window (not in the control
• above the whiteboard)
• PPT notes are at the bottomof the plan window

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Whiteboard - Tool Bar
Select/Move/Re-size/Re-edit all Objects
Erase foreground objects on the screen
Draw a pen stroke on the screen
Draw a highlighter stroke on the screen
Enter text box on the screen
Enter text on the screen
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Whiteboard - Tool Bar
Draw Shapes on the screen
Point to items of interest on the screen
Place an image from a file on the screen
Place a clip art on the screen
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Whiteboard - Tool Bar
Place a screen capture on the screen
Load a presentation
Create a new blank screen. This screen will be
added to the list of slides in the control above
the whiteboard.
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Web Tour

• To begin Web touring go to the Web button on
  the toolbar. Type an address in the URL and click
  OK

The website will appear to all of the
participants.