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Elluminate is software that allows e-learning and collaboration and requires only an Internet connection. Elluminate lets you share whiteboards and applications, talk about the presentation material and answer questions, conduct interactive quizzes and surveys, and record the session for re-play.
To try using Elluminate, connect and click Live Demo (in the middle of the home page). You'll need to configure your computer to use Elluminate (choose that radio button under "Choose what you would like to do" as marked on the illustration at right). Fill out the rest of the form, and you can enter a live demonstration.
The current version of Elluminate is 8.5. If you have used Elluminate with an older version, Elluminate, Inc., recommends deleting the Java cache.
Version 8 has increased video quality, an activity timer, separate window for note taking, and up to six participants can talk simultaneously with no speaker echo. Read more about version 8.
The Elluminate web site has lots of training and reference information. They offer live training and recorded training for participants (recorded training) and moderators (live, recorded). Available reference information about Elluminate resources include short documents and recorded sessions on: application sharing, breakout rooms, direct messaging, file transfer (recorded), polling, remote desktop sharing (recorded), and using audio and video (recorded), and more.
If you want to test Elluminate with an audience of one, you can arrange sessions with Diana Harris, 335-5121.
On the daily schedule of Elluminate sessions on campus, current sessions are highlighted bold and blue. Sessions scheduled but not live at this time are grey. Use the calendar in the upper right-hand corner to check for meetings being held on other days. Click the Recordings link to hear/see meetings that occurred in the past. Most meetings do not require a password, so you can join an on-going meeting to lurk or experience the Elluminate environment. (Look at the icon in the Pwd? column; if it is an unlocked padlock, no password is needed. If a password is needed, the moderator should give that to you when s/he sets up the Elluminate session.)
The group of people on campus who are promoting the use of Elluminate sometimes use Elluminate to have meetings, rather than physically gathering on campus. Some departments use Elluminate to hold meetings or conferences including people across campus, across the country, or around the world. A faculty member used Elluminate to teach students how to use engineering software with the application sharing feature. Because those sessions were recorded, the students could view and listen to the recordings of those sessions at any time. (Some have used Elluminate Live to teach a course remotely, but Elluminate did not work well in that setting.)
Holding office hours and TA help sessions using Elluminate seems like a great use of the program. The facilitator, the instructor or TA, can be at an Internet-connected computer during the stated hours. Students can connect to ask questions. Questions can be typed or spoken, if both people have a microphone attached to the computer. You can share an application and demonstrate how to accomplish some task the students does not understand. With the participant's agreement, you can take control of the participant's desktop to demonstrate use of an application, for example.
When you host an Elluminate meeting, you can record what happens during the meeting. People who are interested in the content but could not attend can listen to the recording and see what was shared on the whiteboard or the applications shared during that meeting.
Version 8 includes reports of current or past meeting attendance, meeting and recording information, and recordings that were viewed. To get to the reports you must login to Elluminate with your Elluminate login ID and password.
If you want to become a meeting facilitator (Engineering faculty and staff only) to schedule and conduct meetings, please call Diana Harris at 335-5121 or send email.
Read ITS's Elluminate support page.
If you want to share an application with Elluminate, your monitor must be in landscape mode. If your monitor is in portrait mode when you try to share an application, your computer may crash.
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