This document provides an overview of online teaching and learning using the Blackboard Elluminate platform. It discusses the advantages of online learning for both students and teachers, including flexibility and accessibility. It then demonstrates some of Elluminate's interactive features such as polls, chat, webcams, screen sharing, and whiteboarding. The document concludes with a live demo of these tools in action.

1. Presented By: Ms. Briana Taylor
Saint Vincent College
Teaching & Learning
Online

2. Agenda
Advantages Example of Blackboard
of Learning Teaching Elluminate
Online Interactive
Online Demo

3. Advantages of Learning
Online
Benefits Students & Teachers

4. Learning Online
Should included both Synchronous (real-time) and
asynchronous (anytime) interactions.
• Synchronous • Asynchronous
• Web Conferencing • Discussion Boards
(Blackboard
Collaborate, WebEx) • Individual
Assignments
• Live Chat
• Email
• Application or Screen
Sharing
• Virtual Whiteboard

5. Advantages to Online Learning
• Attend Class from different
locations
– Makes courses more accessible
– Eliminates travel
• Engaging Multimedia
Presentations
• Interactive & Collaborative
– Chat box, microphone, web-cameras
• Fits Your Schedule
– Anytime, Anywhere

6. Advantages to Teaching Online
• Monitor participation and assess
learning
– Online hand raising
– Ask multiple choice & true/false
questions during the lesson
• Record online sessions
– Students can watch the session again
– Absentees have access to the material
• Instructor Convenience
– Teach from any location
– Have online office hours
– Hybrid Courses: blend on campus
meetings and online instruction

7. Blackboard’s Elluminate Live

8. Example of Teaching
Online

9. Video Clip of Blackboard’s Elluminate Live
Clip 1: http://youtu.be/AkkER5JKIKA
Clip 2: http://youtu.be/5Ey0V3hSVpk

10. Blackboard’s
Elluminate Live!
Interactive Demo

11. Please Click the Meeting Link in your email or on Blackboard
to join the Live Session.

12. What to Expect When Connecting to Elluminate Live:
1. Click the Link
2. Type your name and click login
3. Wait for the meeting download to being.
--Elluminate will download a Java file to your computer.
--You may have to confirm the download by right clicking and
selecting download file or by clicking Open with Java, Ok.
--Please Click Allow, Start, or Run on the pop-up screens for the
meeting
4. A window should let you know Java is starting
5. Select your connection speed
--Wireless
--Cable/DSL
--LAN (Local Area Network – such as St. Vincent)

13. Parts of the Screen

14. Can you hear me?
Yes = Green Check
No = Red X
Click the button to submit
your response.

15. Audio Configuration
• Elluminate Live has audio configuration
– Tools -> Audio -> Adjust Speaker Level or Select Device
• Testing Sound
– Make sure that the power switch on your speakers or
headphone is turned on and the volume is set.
– Is there a volume or sound control on your computer?
• You may have to switch from computer audio to headphone device.

16. Voice over Internet
• Push the Microphone Button to talk.
• The talk button turns yellow when your microphone is on.
– Please give us a little greeting with your name and department or content area.
• When you are done talking, push the Talk Button to release your
microphone.
• Maximum of 6 microphones at once.

17. Web Cameras
1. Click Show Video Icon
2. Click Preview
– Option for gray or color
3. Click Transmit to begin
sharing
– If you would like to speak, don’t
forget to also click the
microphone button.
– Give us a hello or share your
plans for summer. Are you
teaching, going on vacation, or
perhaps just working?
4. Click Transmit again to turn
your web camera off

18. Live Chat
What are the benefits to using Live Chat during lessons when you may also be
using microphones and web cameras?

19. Participants Window
Privileges for
•Microphone
•Web Camera
•Chat
•Screen Sharing
•White Board
Highlight when in use

20. Polling
Moderators can change the Polling Options under tools.

21. Polling
This same slide is more interactive online.
• Synchronous • Asynchronous
A. Microphone A. Discussion Boards
B. Web Camera B. Individual
C. Live Chat Assignments
C. Email

22. Whiteboard
• Line
• Shapes
• Pen
• Text
• Highlighter
• Images
• Pointer
• Upload Power Points
Circle or Highlight your favorite whiteboard feature.

23. How to Upload a PowerPoint in Elluminate

24. ?
Which interactive tool do you like
the most in Elluminate:
A. Poll Questions
B. Chat Box
C. White Board
D. Microphone and/or Webcamera

25. ?
Have your views of online
learning changed after seeing
Blackboard Elluminate?

26. Conclusion to Teaching and
Learning Online
Thank you!