Webinar Moderator Support
- How to join the classroom
- How to install and use the software
- System Requirements
- How to load a PowerPoint file into the classroom
- How to promote ELearning collaboration in virtual classroom environments
- Elluminate Resources
Joining the Virtual Classroom
There are two ways to access the virtual classroom:
- We will email you a special URL Link to the virtual classroom a day or two day before your presentation. You can click that link from your email application or paste it into your browser address window. Please include your email address in with your return package if we do not already have it OR let us know how to contact you.
- If you don't have access to your email, go to the CIRCL seminar website link: http://www.circl.pitt.edu/html/seminars.htm
- Click on the vClass icon in the first column from the left for your presentation to launch the virtual classroom.
These links are active only an hour or so before the session. They do not work before then.
Once you are in the room, you will be assigned moderator status.
Please log in about 20 minutes prior to your presentation so we can check your sound quality
If we received your PowerPoint presentation ahead of time, it will be loaded for you. Otherwise, we will instruct you how to load it yourself. (see below)
Installing and Using the Elluminate Live! Software
Software Installation
The software can be installed free-of-charge. Please visit the Elluminate Live! software installation page. This takes about 2-3 minutes over a high speed connection.
Email support@elluminate.com with any technical questions, or call 866-388-8674 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm MST. Please use these contacts if you have software installation problems.
If you have previously installed the Elluminate Live! client software, you do not need to install it again.
Practicing
CIRCL has a demonstration virtual classroom (available 24/7). To practice being a moderator with privileges to create and delete content and control participant privileges, please join the Demo Room as a Moderator/Speaker. When prompted enter "Moderator" as the Login Name and "guest" as the Password. (They are case sensitive.)
Also see Help, Documentation and Instructions.
Elluminate Live! Help
You can email support@elluminate.com with any technical questions (or call 866-388-8674 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm MST). Please use these contacts if you are having software installation problems. Complete documentation can be downloaded from the Elluminate Live! instruction page.
System Requirements
This seminar will use a multi-way interactive multimedia broadcast over the Internet using Elluminate Live! and your Java enabled browser. This application supports Mac, Windows, and Unix computers.
Watch a 5 minute overview about how to use this software.
Elluminate uses "Voice-over-IP" (internet voice). You will need a soundcard, speakers or headset, and optionally a microphone installed in your computer. If you do not have a microphone, you can send questions to the presenter via text chat.
If you participating in a room with multiple people, connect one computer to a mic, speakers and an LCD projector or large monitor. Pass around the mic so others can talk.
Loading a PowerPoint File into the Virtual Classroom
Before you begin:
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The Elluminate Live! virtual classroom application window must be open.
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You must have moderator status to load content.
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If PowerPoint is running, please close it or the import will fail.
Note: PowerPoint animations and transitions are not imported. You may need to tweak your PowerPoint Slides beforehand if animations and overlays hide key points on your slides.
Once you are in the virtual classroom:
- Go to the File menu, Load/Whiteboard.
- At the Select Screens dialog box check OK.
- At the Load File dialog box, change the Files of Type to Filter for PowerPoint File.
- For better quality, check the Better Quality radio button under import options (advised).
- Browse for the Powerpoint file on your computer in the Load File dialog box.
- Click the file name and then click the Open button.
- Wait while the PowerPoint Images are imported into the virtual classroom whiteboard. Depending on the speed of your computer it may take a couple of minutes or so.
You have imported your PowerPoint slides. Use the forward and backward controls at the top left of the whiteboard to see what has been imported.
Powerpoint converter
PowerPoint™ Converter for Elluminate Live! allows you to create special higher resolution, larger size whiteboard files from PowerPoint presentations. Use this option for combined presentations in front of live classrooms and internet audiences. Click here to use it.
Email support@elluminate.com with any technical questions, or call 866-388-8674 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm MST. Please use these contacts if you have software installation problems.
Promoting ELearning Collaboration
Download "Strategies for teaching at a distance" (pdf).
Please see our ELearning Resources page for links to other sites, background information, and books.