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What’s New in Elluminate Live! 7.0

1) The session will begin at:

2) While you are waiting test your audio using the Audio Setup Wizard

3) If you’d like to share your profile with others while using Elluminate, go to Tools Profile Edit Profile…To view the profile of another user, just hover over their name in the Participants window.

Elluminate Live! Version 7.0

New Features and Enhancements

eLive’s Product Design

Core Philosophy - No User Left Behind– Any platform, any bandwidth, any where

Expand eLive for use in new ways– Small group collaboration– Blended sessions (face-to-face & online)

• Steve Colt, ISER

Allow Social Networking– eLive enables community to develop among online students– Unique features, User Profiles and Interactive Recordings

eLive 7.0 Overview

New Features– Full duplex audio– File transfer– User profiles– Accelerator keys

Enhancements– User interface– Application sharing– Whiteboard– Breakout rooms– Direct messaging– Polling– Hot keys

Audio Enhancements

Full Duplex– Ability for multiple (up to 4) to talk

simultaneously• Default is 1 speaker

– Allows easy interaction• Click on Talk button just once to

start conversation

– Great for small group collaboration and speaker panels

– Should be used with headsets or echo-canceling microphones

Shows Audio on/off key sequence on Talk button

Improved Audio Wizard

File Transfer Upload a file to the server

to share– Use

Files are pushed to students for download– Students must choose to

save– Prompt recipients optional

Transfer available in recordings

User Profiles

Users can create a profile to be locally stored and shared with others in the session

Tools Profile Permission based

Attendees can save each others profiles and can send an email from within the session

Available during recording playback as well

Allows communities to develop naturally

Enhancing Accessibility Keyboard shortcut and mnemonics for easy

navigation without the need of a mouse– Accelerator keys for commonly used

actions• Entering text message (CTRL-M or

OpenApple-M)• Hand raise (CTRL-R or OpenApple-R)• Emoticons• Polling

– Additional hot keys• Snapshot of shared application to

whiteboard• Show/Hide controller• Start/Stop video transmission

Closed captioning– Ability to save session transcript

User Interface

Updated look and feel for all platforms

Application Sharing - Controls

New controls when you are sharing an application

Start & Stop

Pause & Resume

Minimize & Mini-Controller

Preview

Application Sharing - Preview Window

Preview a thumbnail of the hosted application sharing session

Visual feedback to the host about what is being shared

Application Sharing - Mini-Controller

While application sharing, minimize eLive into the bottom right corner

Share a full screen application while still monitoring the session activity (Hand raise, direct messaging, video, etc.)

StopMaximizeWindow

Application Sharing - Snapshot

Places a snapshot of the application being shared placed onto the whiteboard– Pauses application sharing– Returns everyone to the whiteboard– Inserts the image on the whiteboard automatically after

the current screen

Click the resume button to return to application sharing

Whiteboard

Import larger resolution PowerPoint presentations

Animated images– Load animated GIFs– Animated laser pointer

Participant whiteboard screen viewing– Moderators can track whiteboards

being viewed by participants

Breakout Rooms

Allow automatic random or assigned distribution of attendees into breakout groups– Randomize by number of

rooms or number of participants per room

– Easily return users to the same rooms

Rename breakout groups

Direct Messaging

Ability to send graphical emoticons

Ability to increase size of “send message” area

Polling

Publish polling results to a new whiteboard screen for all attendees to view

Lock polling responses– Participants cannot change their responses

Individual polls can be conducted per breakout room

Additional Hot Keys

Accessible from Tools Hot Key Configuration…

Resource Materials

Additional Resource Materials– User guides– Quick reference guides– Recorded training sessions– Register for live training sessions

Available from http://www.elluminate.com, click on Training on the left-hand side

Question Period