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Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences

eLive Guide: Preparing for and running eLivesessions

Introduction

Elluminate Live is a program that facilitates online interaction in real time, allowing usto run tutorials, learning activities, project work, student supervision and meetingsonline with students and colleagues. The program has many features such as theability to run Powerpoint presentations and visit websites with participants, pollingtools to survey participants, check their understanding or obtain feedback, the facilityto share and send documents in real time, whiteboard and chat functions, breakoutrooms for small group work, and many other features that allow us to createinteractive, participatory and collaborative learning activities.Universities are using Elluminate Live for many purposes including:–Interactive Tutorials–Small group work

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Inquiry and Blended Learning (link)

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Student collaborative space for project work–Delivery of course material

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Student contact ‘Office hours’

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Research meetings (link)–Supervision of students

Preparation for using eLive

Schedule an eLive orientation session with Dr. Ian Story or an experienced staff member.

Plan what you will do in the session. A 30-40min eLive session is recommendedas a maximum for the first session - teaching in eLive initially takes a great dealof concentration.

Create a Powerpoint presentation to structure the session. On the first slidewrite Set Up instructions for students (example attached).

Consider the pedagogical purpose of your teaching in eLive. eLive sessions inwhich the lecturer answers questions may encourage passivity in students.Many staff report that the use of and learning activities and challengingquestions enhances engagement and achieves higher learning outcomes.

Communicate to students in your unit guide and on DSO to prepare them: seePost 1 and Post 2 onpages 10 and 11 of this document.Some of the important information to tell students includes:

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Students need a headset, or speakers and a mike. The headset in theDeakin bookshop is not recommended as the sound quality is poor.

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Announce the dates and times of sessions with plenty of notice or, evenbetter, publish the eLive timetable in the Unit Guide – this may encouragehigher levels of participation.

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Students need to log in

not with their Deakin login

as staff do, but withtheir full name and the password “hmnbs” as indicated on the eLive link.

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Inform students that downloading and setting up eLive initially may takesome time, and that they should test eLive the day prior to the first sessionso they can obtain technical support if required.

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Provide students with links to Deakin eLive support web pages and ITSDphone numbers

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The first eLive Session

1.Before launching eLive, plug in your speakers, microphone or headset.

Log in to the session 15 mins before the session start time so when the studentslog in they will see your name and know they are in the right place. Staff log inusing Deakin login, and students log in with their name so you are able toidentify who they are.

When you first launch eLive, when asked, set the connection speed (LAN if atDeakin University).

Test your audio: Tools > Audio > Audio Set Up Wizard.

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If sound is not working, close your eLive session, go to Start > ControlPanel > Sounds and Audio devices, set default device to

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yourheadset, launch eLive. Test Audio. (It may not work at this stage). Thenclose eLive, open Control Panel, go to Sounds and Audio devices, changethe default device back to your headset, then launch eLive. It should worknow. If not, repeat, or restart your computer. (Or get help from ITSD)5.Change Audio Settings so more than one person can speak at once:

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Tools > Audio > Allow Simultaneous Talkers > then set it at 6.

On the Whiteboard, upload a welcoming PowerPoint slide or type “Welcome toUnitName” or other welcoming statement. You may also wish to upload a(small) photo of yourself so there is a sense of people being in the space, ratherthan just the software.

It is also useful to suggest students conduct an Audio check (see attachedPowerpoint slide)8.Welcome each participant by name as they arrive, and tell the group when youstart recording the session that the session is being recorded.9.In the first session, allow students to talk or type if they don’t have headsets,test out the Polling tools, draw on the whiteboard etc. Your goal here shouldmainly be to familiarise students with the software, and the environment.

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