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Elluminate Training

As you know, changes are occurring at WAOL.  One such change is the purchase of Elluminate, a real-time online learning and collaboration tool.  I know many of you are anxious to learn Elluminate, and I am excited for you to do so.  The State Board has purchased a single, unlimited license available for use by all 34 colleges, the State Board office, and the HECB office.  Each institution will manage its own users in that single installation, managed by WAOL.  We anticipate a full roll-out for all institutions by the end of August.

·         All Elluminate information from WAOL will go by default to the ELC on each campus.  If you want to designate someone else to manage Elluminate for your campus, that’s fine.

·         If you use Elluminate on your campus, you will need to manage and support it.

·         The training listed below is on using the Elluminate tools; we will have further training on how to manage Elluminate after we have set up the business rules for the State Board license.

 With that in mind, please find the Elluminate training plan from WAOL below:

1.  The ELC (or college-designated person) at each college should be trained and comfortable in the Elluminate environment prior to faculty or staff using Elluminate.
   1. To accomplish this, the ELC or designated college person needs to go through the four, free, live, one-hour each, online training courses that Elluminate offers.  Those training courses can be found at this website:  http://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/event/schedule?etn=training&eef=1 

                                          i.    You will need to create a login account, which can be created at the above site.

                                         ii.    Going through the training sessions will allow you to set your computer with the correct preferences.

                                        iii.    The classes are offered on many different dates and times.

                                       iv.    The four free one-hour each training courses are:

1.    Plan!  Getting Started

2.    Part 1:  Getting Started With Elluminate Live!  For Moderators

3.    Part 2:  Next Steps With Elluminate Live!  For Moderators 

4.    Part 3:  Advanced Tools In Elluminate Live!  For Moderators

I would suggest you go through the training for administrators as well:Elluminate Live!  Session Administration System        

1. If you like, once the ELC (or other college person) has completed the four, free training courses offered by Elluminate, you can request face-to-face training at your college by me, the WAOL Online Faculty Training Coordinator. 
2. To practice Elluminate, you can create a vRoom in Elluminate and select someone to participate in your vRoom.  (Note:  There can only be 3 people in a vRoom at a time, and you can participate with another ELC’er, myself, or anyone else you wish to invite into your vRoom.)
3. In the meantime, WAOL staff will be setting up the Elluminate installation. We expect to be done with that work by the end of August.
4. Once someone at your college is comfortable with Elluminate, and the WAOL installation is complete, you can request Elluminate for your school.  Each college will determine when to offer Elluminate to the faculty/staff.  Each college will control emails to faculty and staff regarding Elluminate, will be in charge of their training, and will support its own users.  As a suggestion, I would require faculty to go through the above four free training modules, then, if you would like, I would present face to face training at your campus, or you could conduct face to face training on your campus with materials I provide to you or materials you create yourself.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Jane McCarville

jmccarville@sbctc.edu

July 28, 2008 at 11:47 am Leave a comment