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Pronto on Snow Leopard

2009-10-14T09:31:26Z

Has anyone else had issues with pronto and the newest Mac OS release (Snow Leopard 10.6)? My pronto opens up and acts like it is going to work and then crashes.

Is it just me or is this an actual issue?

Microphone shuts off

2009-09-30T17:24:52Z

When I am using wimba classroom and have the talk button locked down it fluctuates up and down and sometimes in the middle of speaking it goes all the way down and students can’t hear me. Is there anyway of locking this so it doesn’t fluctuate so I can focus on lecturing and not worrying about whether my students can hear me or not.

Thanks,

Matt

moving archive files from one course to another

2009-11-13T15:24:03Z

does anyone know how to move/copy an archived presentation from one wimba classroom to another?
thanks,
J. Donnelly

Does Pronto crash after you install os x 10.6 (Snow leopard)

2009-11-12T09:49:09Z

Does Pronto crash after you install os x 10.6 (Snow leopard)

Wimba and Moodle

2009-02-09T18:12:50Z

North Dakota is starting to use Moodle on a select few college campuses. As the interest grows would like to hear from schools who have integrated Wimba within Moodle - on all apsects, regarding training, ease of use for the instructor, particular problems encountered.

Streaming Movies

2009-11-04T12:54:07Z

Our student council wants to host a movie night and stream a movie in a Wimba Classroom for 25 students to view simultaneously.

Has anyone tried doing this before? How well has it worked?

How can I stop students from accessing old recorded archives?

2009-10-09T14:18:01Z

Sometime we record the classes on Wimba for classroom Management. But the students keep watching them when they’re not supposed to in class. How can I configure Wimba to stop them from doing this?

Subscribing to Wimba podcasts

2009-10-08T14:13:39Z

With Wimba Voice 6.0 Podcaster, does the subscribe button bring in ALL of the threads of a podcast or just the first? What about with the RSS feed?

Hack to allow students to use lock talk when presenting a debate or presentation

2009-09-09T22:13:06Z

Increasingly students are being asked to do presentations using Wimba Classroom. Often the lecturer will promote the student to being a presenter by clicking the (-) next to their name in the right most column in the PEOPLE WINDOW.

Sometimes promoting a student to presenter status is not possible e.g. when doing a debate and keeping the teams in their own breakout rooms before the debate or in the preparation time between speakers.

A quick hack to allow participants to use lock talk without marking them a presenter is to get the student to rest the corner of a book on the CONTROL key to hold down the button. They have to remember to take the book off the button when they have finished their presentation (see attached picture). Presenters can also temporally promote students to being a presenter (so they have the LOCK TALK option by clicking the (-) in the right most column next to their name in the PEOPLE window.

Of course if students do this when they are not presenting there will be more background noise in the room. If the person does not remove their own personal LOCK TALK book, the presenter will quickly MUTE them by clicking (+) under the Mic column next to their name in the PEOPLE WINDOW.

Feel free to post other Wimba tips and hints to this forum ... we can all work together.

Peter Evans
http://community.baker-evans.com

Problem w/ file export from Diploma to Blackboard 8?

2009-09-07T20:19:48Z

I dont see an option to export files from Diploma into version 8. Export into version 7 doesn’t seem to work. Has anyone else had luck doing this? or when is a new version coming out of Diploma? Is Blackboard now in version 9? why the delay w/ Diploma?