Elluminate has an incredible array of functionality for teachers and students to interact at a distance. As long as the student and teacher have agreed upon a time to meet the work session can be synchronous. It is also possible for the teacher (or moderator) of the session to record the session for review later. This trumps live lectures for a lot of reasons. I don't know how many times I would like to have reviewed what I covered in a lecture, with no ability to do so.
The teacher needs to prepare material ahead of time like they would for a face to face lecture. I think I can get away with more ad lib in my face to face classes than will be possible using elluminate.
What I found in our first session was that my home computer was not able to receive and transmit audio until I did some messing with the computer. I wish I could say I knew how I solved the problem, but I would be lying. Like many things computer related for me, I stumbled upon the solution but have no idea what the problem was that I solved. Rather unscientific at best.
Though we were warned to test ahead of class I was confident I could log right on and join the session, so
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Robin,
Let me know if I can assist you have trouble logging into ellumiate. The UAS Helpdesk is good at trouble shooting. Please do test and practice using Elluminate before our next meeting as students will be presenting. I look forward to reading your future postings.
Patti,
The trouble I was having was with the speaker setting on my computer. Somehow in messing around with the speaker options I solved the problem. Everything is working fine now.
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