Participant’s Guide - Blackboard

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3 2009 Elluminate, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Elluminate Live! version Doc. Revision: Page i Contents Chapter 1 Using this 1 Who should read this Guide .. 1 How to use this Guide ..1 Conventions used in this 1 Operating System Differences .. 1 Notes .. 2 Menu Pathnames .. 3 Variables .. 3 Typographical Conventions .. 3 Getting help .. 3 Chapter 2 Getting Started .. 4 Minimum Client System Requirements .. 4 Joining an Elluminate Live! 5 Setting Your Connection Speed .. 6 Prompting for the Connection Speed .. 7 Setting Your Preferences .. 8 Setting Your Proxy 11 Configuring Your Audio .. 13 Launching an Offline Elluminate Live! 14 Chapter 3 The Elluminate Live! 15 The Toolbar .. 17 Using the Toolbar Buttons .. 17 Status Bar .. 18 The Menus.

4 19 File Menu ..19 Session Menu .. 20 View 21 Tools Menu .. 22 Window 23 Help Using Mnemonic and Accelerator 25 Mnemonics .. 25 Accelerator Keys .. 26 Using Hot Keys ..29 Configuring Hot Keys .. 30 participant s Guide Contents Window Layouts ..32 Main Window 32 Lock, Unlock, and Re-sizing the Windows .. 33 Mini-Controller .. 33 Collapsing, Expanding, Hiding and Restoring the Mini-Controller .. 34 Moving the Mini-Controller .. 34 Restoring the Main 34 Mini-Controller with 35 Mini-Controller with Chat .. 35 Mini-Controller with Video .. 36 Mini-Controller with Timer .. 36 Mini-Controller with Application Sharing .. 36 The Confirmation 38 Chapter 4 The Participants Window ..39 What Permissions Do I Have? .. 40 Moderator Privilege .. 41 Hand 41 Raise and Lower Your Hand.

5 41 Stepping 41 Rejoining the Session .. 42 Using the Emotion Indicators .. 42 Activity Lights .. 43 Activity Halo ..43 Sorting the Participants List .. 43 Sorting Rules ..45 Responding to the Polling Questions .. 47 Breakout Moving Yourself to Breakout 48 Returning Yourself to the Main Room .. 50 Printing the Participants 52 Saving the Participants List to a File .. 52 Using the Context Menu .. 53 Wait for listeners to Catch Up .. 53 Select All Objects from participant .. 53 Request Desktop Control .. 53 View Edit 54 Send E-Mail at Work .. 54 Send E-Mail at Home .. 54 User 55 View a User's Profile .. 55 Editing Your User Profile .. 55 Page ii 4 July 2009 Elluminate Live! version Doc. Revision: Page iii Chapter 5 Video 59 Previewing, and Transmitting 60 Opening, Expanding and Resizing the Video 60 Previewing and Transmitting Video.

6 61 Viewing Video ..62 Understanding Frame Rates .. 63 A Note on Image Quality Settings .. 64 Activity Lights and 64 Viewing Video with Multiple Simultaneous Cameras .. 64 Controlling the Main View .. 66 Follow me Option .. 66 Identifying Transmitters .. 66 Stopping and Closing 67 Stopping Video Transmission .. 67 Closing the Video Window .. 67 Sending a Video Image to the 68 Selecting and Configuring your Video 68 Setting Video Preferences .. 69 Setting Video Device Disconnection .. 69 Setting the Video Frame Rate .. 70 Changing the Video Window Settings .. 72 Chapter 6 The Chat Window .. 74 Activity Halo .. 74 Sending Chat Messages .. 75 Send to This 75 Send to Moderators or a Single 75 Send to a Selected Group of Session 76 Adding External Links to your Message.

7 77 Adding Emoticons to your Message .. 77 Viewing Chat Messages .. 78 Scrolling Chat Messages .. 78 Show Date/Time Stamp .. 78 Filtering Chat Messages .. 79 80 New Message Indicator .. 80 Changing the Text Size in the Conversation Area .. 80 Changing the Text Size in the Message Text 81 Viewing Chat Messages from the Mini-Controller .. 81 Saving Chat Messages to a 82 Chapter 7 The Audio 83 Configuring Your Audio .. 83 Using the Audio Setup 84 Managing Your Microphone Levels .. 87 participant s Guide Contents Using the Audio Window .. 91 Activating and Releasing Your Microphone .. 91 Adjusting Your Microphone and Speaker 92 Activity Lights and 92 Advanced Features ..93 Selecting an Audio Input Device .. 93 Selecting an Audio Output Device.

8 95 Muting Speakers When Talking .. 98 Setting the Sample Rate .. 99 Suppressing Transmission of Silence .. 100 Muting Your Microphone to Let Listeners Catch 101 Chapter 8 Telephone Conferencing ..103 Joining a Teleconference .. 104 Leaving a Teleconference .. 104 Activity Indicators ..105 Sorting the Participants List .. 105 Sorting Rules .. 106 Chapter 9 The Whiteboard 107 Entering Content into the Whiteboard .. 108 The Tools Palette .. 108 Entering Graphics .. 110 Inserting 112 Inserting 115 Loading a Presentation or Whiteboard File .. 119 Manipulating Objects and 127 Using the Explore Objects Window .. 127 Selecting Objects .. 129 Grouping and Ungrouping 132 Moving Objects .. 132 Resizing Objects .. 133 Cutting, Copying and Pasting Objects in the Whiteboard.

9 133 Dragging/Dropping and Copying/Pasting Text and Images to/from Other Applications .. 135 Moving Objects to the Background or Foreground .. 137 Moving Objects to the 138 Erasing Objects .. 139 Deleting Objects .. 139 Editing Text .. 140 Editing Object 140 Aligning and Distributing Objects .. 142 Working with Whiteboard Screens .. 144 Scaling the Whiteboard 144 Whiteboard Access Permissions .. 145 Using the Explore Screens Window .. 145 Navigating Between Screens .. 147 Page iv 4 July 2009 Elluminate Live! version Doc. Revision: Page v Creating New Blank 148 Cutting/Copying/Pasting/Deleting Screens .. 151 Dragging/Dropping Screens to Other Applications .. 156 Editing Screen Properties .. 156 Saving Whiteboard Screens .. 157 Printing Whiteboard 158 Locating an OpenOffice Installation.

10 159 Customizing Your Clip Art 160 Chapter 10 Application Sharing .. 166 Hosting an Application Sharing Session .. 166 Quick Step for Sharing a Single Application .. 167 Sharing Your Desktop .. 167 Sharing One or More Applications .. 167 Application Sharing Window .. 169 The Host s Window .. 169 The Viewer s Window .. 171 Pause and Resume Application Sharing .. 172 Show Preview Window .. 173 Stop the Application Sharing Session .. 173 Control of Your Shared 174 Give 174 Take Away Control .. 175 Request Control of Someone Else's Desktop .. 175 Return Control Back to the Desktop Owner .. 177 Request Control of Shared Applications .. 177 Send Simulated 178 Terminate Remote Desktop Sharing .. 178 Sharing a Region of Your Desktop .. 179 Advanced Application Sharing Options.