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Synchronous Platform - ClassLive ProTM Welcome to the Synchronous training module. This module will help you learn how to conduct a synchronous class, i.e. a live session using the ClassLive ProTM^ feature in eCollege. ClassLive ProTM^ is powered by Elluminate Live! which is a real-time, synchronous collaboration environment. It offers several advantages and enhanced features, including:
It is integrated with our Asynchronous course management system – eCollege - which makes it more easily accessible
with single sign-on/login credentials by the users.
The Whiteboard tool offers a rich and interactive experience to both the teachers and the students, especially with the
two-way VoIP (voice over the Internet Protocol) supported environment.
The application sharing option allows for a more hands-on teaching and advising by the instructors.
Effectiveness can be increased by engaging students/participants with exchanging text messages through its Chat tool,
displaying live videos, sharing whiteboard, multimedia files, and applications – all in one graphical interface.
Automatic Archiving that allows playback capabilities of all live sessions.
Overview
Professors assigned a synchronous class teach a live session once per week on a specific day and time
Professors will be provided with the "Objectives" and "Lecture" components pre-loaded in their course shell. These
items should not be moved around or deleted
The "Lecture" will be very basic so professors are encouraged to add supplemental information to enhance the value of
the course
Professors are strongly recommended to create their own presentation slides to be presented during the live sessions
To proceed, click on the Objectives tab in the Course Content panel on the left hand side.
Unit 2: Synchronous - Course
Access
Help
Course Access
Overview: Once you are certain that you meet all system requirements to teach in a synchronous environment, you may want to log in and access your synchronous practice course shell. Just like the asynchronous training, you will have an instructional shell (think of it as your classroom) and a practice shell (think of it as your lab). Below you will find the steps needed to find and open your practice shell and practice the features that you will be learning during this training. To begin your synchronous training course: To access your Synchronous course, you would first log into eCollege at http://strayeronline.net Click on the tab labeled Academics Page under the Strayer University logo. Your practice course will be listed as eCollege Practice Shell. This is where you will be practicing and then performing a live test with your trainer. To open your course, click on the name of your practice course shell. Once you have clicked on the name of your course, you will see a screen similar to the one on the right. Your course will contain the number of weekly units corresponding to the number of weeks in a Quarter (normally, 11 in a regular Quarter). ClassLive Pro is the platform you will be using to teach your synchronous class. To access ClassLivePro, click on the Chat tab on the tools menu. Click on the ClassLive tab. In order to start your live class, click on the Lead Session link. Important: Clicking on this link not only begins a new live session, it also automatically starts recording each session you start. Since instructors currently do not have an option to
Unit 2: Synchronous - Virtual classroom Help
Virtual Classroom
Overview: Once you have logged into your synchronous course, you will see the default classroom setting. Your Elluminate virtual classroom consists of 4 main areas: the Chat Window, the Whiteboard, the Participant Window and the Audio section. When you open your classroom, the default classroom setting will appear as below: How to use each area: The chat window lets you exchange text messages with students in your classroom. Your students can use the chat window to communicate with you and other students. Both professor and student text messages can be filtered, time stamped, or saved in order to document student participation. The chat window has the following components: Show option menu, date/time stamp, conversation area, message text field, announcement button, send to option and send button. The whiteboard is the main presentation tool in this course. You can use the whiteboard to load and present lectures, graphics, mathematical equations and clipart. You can use the whiteboard tools to draw on the whiteboard. Any object placed on the whiteboard can be modified. As the professor (moderator), you can print whiteboard screens and save them for future use. The whiteboard has the following components:navigation buttons, view screen menu, view topic menu, student use permissions (follow or roam), workspace area, editing palette, and tools palette. The participants window gives you an overview of events occurring in the classroom and allows you to control the various tools available to students in your class. You can control access to class tools by controlling that students permissions setting. All permissions are toggle off/on. Student permissions include the audio tool, the chat tool, closed captioning, whiteboard drawing tools, graphing calculator, application sharing, and file transfer tools. You can conduct polling activities and use elluminate sensory perceptors to determine specific activities. Students can raise their hands to ask a question, use emoticons to express how they are feeling, let you know you are going to fast or too slow. Students can even let you know that they have stepped away from their keyboard (afk) for a few minutes.
The participants window has the following components: Raise hand and emoticons column, polling responses column, permissions column, participants column, sort button, away button, emoticons button, raise hand button, and student list. The audio window lets you participate in conversations within your classroom. To use sound effectively,you must have a sound card, microphone and speakers, or a headset. The audio window has the following components: talk button, mic and speaker level indicators, mic and speaker level audio sliders, talkers mic level button. To proceed, click on the Audio tab on the Course Content panel on the left hand side.
Unit 2: Synchronous - Audio Help
Audio
Overview: The audio chat in Class Live allows instructors to communicte with their students and control the ability to control students' privileges with the audio chat. How to check and use Audio: The first step is to enter the Audio Setup Wizard under the Tools option. The audio wizard will allow you to set up the microphone and speaker levels. You can also adjust the levels from the drop down menu below the setup wizard.
PRACTICE EXERCISE:
Go to your Practice Shell. Click on the "Chat" tab and then on the "ClassLive Pro" tab. Click on "Lead a Session" to
launch ClassLive Pro synchronous platform. Go to the "Tools" menu and run the "Audio Setup Wizard". Then, record
a brief Welcome message.
To proceed, click on the Chat Option tab on the Course Content panel on the left hand side.
Unit 2: Synchronous - Chat
Option
Help
Chat
Overview: Class Live has text chat options that both instructors and students can use to communicate during the class via typing text based messages. How to use Chat Window: The text chat box is located on the left hand side of Class Live in the default view. It allows you to have many options to communicate with your students and it is used in conjunction with the participants window as are all other functions of Class Live. You can broadcast a message to all students in your class or select specific students by using the following send options: The all rooms option sends a public message to everyone in all breakout rooms. This room sends a public message to students in the current classroom. Moderators sends a private message to moderators only. Selected participants sends a private message to selected students only. Student name sends a private message to an individual student. By clicking on the megaphone icon, you can send a message as an announcement when you want the message to be clearly seen. For example, calling all groups back to the main classroom would be a good place to use an announcement. You will find more information on this in the Breakout Rooms section of this training class. As with all of the functions, you can turn them on and off for selected students or the whole group from the participants window If you click on the icons shown here then you can enable or disable that function for everyone in the class. You can also change the size of the text in the conversation and the message area from the Tools dropdown menu in the toolbar. When you are in mini view mode, you can also monitor and control text chat via the mini tool bar when you are in desktop sharing or application sharing modes.
Unit 2: Synchronous - Whiteboard Help
Whiteboard
Overview: The Whiteboard window is the main presentation area for displaying content. It can also be used as a collaboration medium where multiple users can interact simultaneously. The professor (moderator) controls access to the whiteboard and can grant various whiteboard user permissions. How to use the Whiteboard: The Elluminate classroom can be viewed in various layouts. The recommendation is to view it under the default view. This can be achieved by selecting ‘Default Layout’ located under the ‘Layout’ icon on the toolbar. An example of the default layout screen is presented under the Virtual Classroom tab. Components of the whiteboard include: navigation, View screen menu, Student use, Workspace, editing palette and Tools palette. The Navigation bar allows the professor (moderator) to control the presentation screen view with respect to the following positions: first, previous, next, last. Similar to other controllers you may already have used, the first button takes you to the first page of the presentation, the previous button takes you to the previous slide in the presenation, the next button takes you to the next slide in the presentation and the last button takes you to the last slide in the presentation. The view screen drop down menu provides access to any screen on the whiteboard. Using the student use area, which consists of the Follow Moderator check box and the roam check box, allows the moderator to control what the students are able to do on the whiteboard. By checking the follow moderator box, the professor can require students to follow exactly what the professor is doing and locks the whiteboard from any additinal exploration.
By using the roam checkbox, the professor can allow students to use various tools on the whiteboard independent of professor instruction. Depending upon the permission granted, the whiteboard navigation bar will change colors. Gray – indicates the moderator and participants are on the same screen. Pink – indicates the moderator and participants are not on the same screen. When joining the session, the whiteboard screen defaults to “Follow Moderator”. For information related to the tools palette, click on the Tools Palette tab on the Course Content panel on the left hand side.
Unit 2: Synchronous - Whiteboard Help
Whiteboard
Overview: The Whiteboard window is the main presentation area for displaying content. It can also be used as a collaboration medium where multiple users can interact simultaneously. The professor (moderator) controls access to the whiteboard and can grant various whiteboard user permissions. How to use the Whiteboard: The Elluminate classroom can be viewed in various layouts. The recommendation is to view it under the default view. This can be achieved by selecting ‘Default Layout’ located under the ‘Layout’ icon on the toolbar. An example of the default layout screen is presented under the Virtual Classroom tab. Components of the whiteboard include: navigation, View screen menu, Student use, Workspace, editing palette and Tools palette. The Navigation bar allows the professor (moderator) to control the presentation screen view with respect to the following positions: first, previous, next, last. Similar to other controllers you may already have used, the first button takes you to the first page of the presentation, the previous button takes you to the previous slide in the presenation, the next button takes you to the next slide in the presentation and the last button takes you to the last slide in the
The Select Object tool move objects into the background on the whiteboard.
- Click the Move the Selected Objects into the Background button, and then click the object that you want to select. A border appears around the selected objects.
- Click to move the selected objects to the background To move objects into the foreground of the whiteboard, the moderator selects the button. This button is shown only when there are objects in the whiteboard. Then, the moderator can resize, move, and change elements in the objects. The move object tool button is available only to the moderator. The Ungroup Object tool allows the moderator to ungroup the objects placed on the whiteboard screen and use them as individual objects.
- Click the Ungroup Selected Groups button, and then click the grouped object(s). A border appears around the objects selected.
- Click to ungroup the objects. The group object Tool allows the moderator to group objects on the whiteboard as single objects for demonstrations. 1.Click the Selection tool and then hold down the Shift key and click the objects that you want to group or alternatively, use the selection tool and drag a selection region that touches a part of each object. A border appears around the object(s) selected. 2.Click the Group Selected Objects on the Screen button to group the objects The Move Background to Foreground tool lets the professor select an object and bring it in front of another object already present on the whiteboard. When the objects are ungrouped they can be moved around individually. By selecting Move Foreground to Background instructors can move pictures that are in the background to be in front of other pictures.
The Load Presentation tool allows the moderator to open PowerPoint presentations (.ppt) and types of presentations and files such as StarOffice presentation (*.ppt, .sxi), Image Files, a Protected Whiteboard file (.wbp), and a Whiteboard file (.wbd) onto the Whiteboard.
- Click the load presentation icon.
- Select one of the screen insertion locations: After selected , inserts the file after the current screen Before selected , inserts the file before the current screen Replace screen , replaces the current screen As sub-topic , inserts the screen as a sub-topic of the current screen
- Click ok.
- The load file dialogue box will appear. Locate file and click open. Once all the steps are completed, the presentation or file will upload in the whiteboard. The Create New Blank Screen tool lets the professor create blank screens. These screens can be used to provide additional illustration and are shown as a tab across the top of the whiteboard.
PRACTICE EXERCISE:
Go to your Practice Shell and click on the "Chat" tab. Lauch ClassLive Pro from under the "CLassLive" tab
by clicking on "Lead the Session" link. Upload a PPT file on the Whiteboard.
To proceed, click on the Participant Window tab on the Course Content panel on the left hand side.
down menu.
- Save all the images in the presentation. A folder will be created where each slide in the presentation will be saved as a static image and numbered accordingly.
- Now to load the slides in Elluminate Live!, click on the "Load Presentation" tool in the Whiteboard window.
- In the Select Screens dialog box, determine whether you wish to insert the file before or after a screen, replace a screen or as a sub-topic of a screen.
- Determine whether you want to insert the file in relation to the Current Screen or Selected Screens.
- Click OK. The Load File dialog box appears.
- From the Files of Type drop-down menu select Filter for Image Files.
- Navigate to the folder created in Step 4 containing the images.
- Select all of the images by clicking the first image and then the last image while holding down your Shift key.
- From the Screen Creation Options shown on the right be sure to select Alpha-Number order.
- Click Open which will load the images. Each image will be loaded onto a separate whiteboard screen as a background image.
