Elluminate Live!
What is Elluminate?
Elluminate is a program that allows for online collaboration, meetings, discussion, and desktop sharing. We highly recommend using the recorded training provided for Moderators, and participating in the live training before moderating your own session.
Is an Elluminate Account needed?
Instructors will need to have a moderator account and create a meeting room. However, if you’re using Blackboard, a moderator account is not needed. Elluminate is integrated within Blackboard.
Students and other participants do not need to have an Elluminate account. The moderator simply provides the participants with a web link (and the meeting name, if necessary).
Requirements
- Participants minimum system requirements:
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X
- Pentium III 500 MHz processor, or faster
- 256 MB RAM and 20 MB free disk space
- Soundcard with speakers and microphone or headset
- 56 Kbps Internet connection
- Java plug-in needed. To find out if you have Java: http://www.elluminate.com/support/.
- You must disable the pop-up blocker on your computer.
- You must allow the Java session when prompted.
- All participants need to have some basic computer and internet literacy (i.e. setting up audio input/output, switching between applications, understand basic text messaging, etc.)
- All participants can become familiar with Elluminate basics by going to Elluminate Online Orientation.
Lists of tools available
Learn more about each of these tools:
- Accessibility
- Application Sharing
- Audio
- Breakout Rooms
- Chat
- File Transfer
- Elluminate Sensory Perception (ESP)
- Graphing Calculator
- Multimedia
- Notes
- Polling
- Presentation Mode
- Quiz Manager
- Recordings
- Remote Desktop Sharing
- Screen Capture
- Timer
- Video
- Web Tour
- Whiteboard
Samples
Handouts
- For Moderator:
- For Participant:
- For more information about Elluminate, see Elluminate handout and training.
- Knowledgebase:
- If you encounter this error "The Java Runtime Environment cannot be loaded" when using Internet Explorer 7, please change the settings by following the instructions at: http://support.elluminate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=2653&task=knowledge&questionID=333.
- If you encounter this error "Please retry using the WebCT Proxy tool to restart session" when accessing Blackboard, please change your browsers settings to allow cookies by following the instructions at: http://support.elluminate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=2653&task=knowledge&questionID=328.
- If you are in Blackboard and accessing an Elluminate meeting, but you see the whole session list rather than the meeting for that course, make sure the browser is set to allow 3rd party cookies. Please change your browser settings by following the instructions:
- For Firefox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYfjkK8Vgs
- For Internet Explorer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdk7tn15lVE
How to get an Account
- If you want to use Elluminate in Blackboard, you don’t need an Elluminate account. However, You will need to request a Blackboard account.
- For use outside of Blackboard, you can sign-up for a free room up to 3 people. Read more about it and sign up here.
- You post a link to the Elluminate session
from:
- Your MyPCC Course Tools class area
- Your PCC/WebEasy page
- Any web page