NCSU Elluminate Live upgraded

Over the weekend (10/10/2009) NCSU DELTA upgraded the version of Elluminate Live! installed and used by NCSU. There are several improvements and bug fixes.

A new and more powerful Elluminate Live Manager (session scheduler)

• A recover/reset your password button
• A search box to find sessions easier (not working at this moment)
• A new "create session" window that is reorganized
• You can search for participants/moderators by name rather than just by unity ID
• Invite guests from the create session window
• The ability to delete your preloaded whiteboard file
• Use of Elluminate Plan!
  

• View a tutorial of the new ELM at http://delta.ncsu.edu/docs/learn/courses/teaching/elluminate/elluminate_session/

• View a handout of the new ELM at http://delta.ncsu.edu/docs/learn/courses/teaching/elluminate/elluminate_live_meeting_creation.pdf

A new way to log in to an Elluminate session after clicking on the session URL

• Moderators will click on "User Authentication -> Elluminate Live! Manager User" and enter your Elluminate username and password if prompted. Also, if prompted enter the meeting password.

• Participants will click on "User Authentication -> Guest" then type in their email address and name. If there is a password for the meeting, they need to enter it here as well. Participants cannot user their Unity ID and password to join a session.

We recommend making your participants aware of the new login screen they will see.

The first time you join a session with the new version it will take a few minutes longer because the new software is being downloaded. When it starts, the first thing you'll notice are the new icons and the polling buttons (green check and red "X") have been moved off the toolbar to the participant box. But those seem to be the biggest changes I've noticed for the participant and moderator.

This upgrade also included changes to

• provide a more robust web server to reduce the number of incidents of the main Elluminate page not working
• provide a more robust and flexible database which will allow DELTA to more easily maintain the server and provide more detailed statistics to users on their meetings

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