Working with the virtual class
Elluminate Live!
Teacher’s interface
eTeacher Ltd. 2010
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->Connection
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
The interface
Participant’s list
Whiteboard
Chat
Audio Setup Wizard
• Test your sound settings, by clicking on the
Tools button from the top menu, clicking on
Audio, and then --> Audio Setup Wizard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
1
2
Chatting
• Use the text box to send messages:
• Choose the recipient and click “Send”
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:
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)
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 participant’s 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.
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)
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 check
Change sizeyour video feed.
smaller/larger
windows
– Use the drop-down menu to change
Quality (default - Medium color).
– Click “Transmit” to start sending the
video. "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.
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 bottom
of the plan window
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 on the screen
Enter text box on the screen
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
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.
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.