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Steve Hargadon

07/09/2009 - 7:28am

Instructions for Using the Free LearnCentral Elluminate Room for Events

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This is an exciting day for us! We have our initial set of
procedures for you to hold your own public web meetings in the
LearnCentral Elluminate room. Wahoo!
The current instructions can be accessed by clicking on the "Announcements" tab above!
Steve

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Lorna Costantini

02/01/2010 - 4:47pm

Gay you have not booked a space on the Learn Central Elluminate Room. You need to book an event in this group. Go to Events section of this group and create a new event. Make sure that you have the correct access link showing in your event information as indicated in the instructions. When you set up your event, the link to access your event defaults to your vroom access link. Choose the time using the 24 hour clock. The time will be posted in your time zone and adjusted in other people's calendar. Book the room for your hour session and be sure to leave the room no more than 30 min after your booked time in the event another group is scheduled after you. You need to do that so you can get the recording for just your session. The first time I lead a meeting we ended up with 4 hours of recording to edit. I was confused about all of this. Thanks to Kim and Peggy and Steve I muddled through. Be sure to email Steve for your moderator link to your session. It is not the same as the link that you give to participants. Hope that helps. Some one correct me, if I missed something.

Steve Hargadon

07/13/2009 - 12:40pm

Thanks, Tammy. Forwarding on.

Gay Stephenson

02/01/2010 - 3:12pm

I have scheduled an event in the free room for Feb 16th - the purpose is to teach parents how to use free online e-newsletter tools to communicate with parents in their school communities.

I followed the instructions above and I have 10 people to invite so far...

I have a few questions... have I booked the correct room?

And how can I make sure the invitation is for the correct time when I have reserved the room half an hour prior to start time. (The one I sent myself had the wrong start time) Any help appreciated,

Gay

Tammy Moore

07/12/2009 - 8:27am

Ok, I have set up 9 session of Moodle for Teachers into the Jully and August calendar on Mondays and Fridays.

I had a little problem with the Friday times though. The scheduler would not let me enter 13:00 pm so that the event time would be 1pm Central. (Note that Mondays are 10am and the am times entered fine). Right now all the times are incorrectly showing as 1am Central for the Friday ones. What do we need to do next to get the pm time instead of am?

Thanks to you Steve and to the rest of the Elluminate staff for offering LearnCentral and the meeting room. It will give those "grass roots and up" types a way to share as well as those who are well established on the scene of educational training and webinars. :0)

Tammy Moore

07/12/2009 - 9:05am

Update to that pm time problem. I discovered that if you type in the time it will let you do the pm times. It is the drop down menu that is not working to select the times. I am manually updating my Friday times now, so they will not need to be corrected. Programmers may need to take a look at the drop down's functionality. I am using Firefox and Vista 64 if it may matter.

Steve Hargadon

07/13/2009 - 8:38am

I'm using Firefox and Chrome, and I haven't had a problem with this. It does use a 24-hour clock format--was 13:00 not showing up in the drop down for you?

Tammy Moore

07/13/2009 - 10:18am

I thought it would be helpful if I did a screen recording so that you and the team could see exactly what it was (or in this case, 'was not') doing.

See the recording at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn5MNhEWSuo

Oddly, yesterday, it would take am times perfectly, just not the pm times. Today it wouldn't take the am times either. I am not sure what is up with that. lol. Manual entry of the time via text entry is fine, so it is not as though I don't have a work around. Though, I have to admit to not thinking to check for manual entry capability at first. It was not until I came back in with the time set to 1am that I thought to see if I could just type in the time.

I just wanted to give the programmers a heads up that something was amiss. I don't envy their job with trying to figure out all the odd things that can happen in software. :0)

Hardware/software: Vista 64, Firefox, Wacom Intuous 3.

Steve Hargadon

07/16/2009 - 11:26am

OK, now I'm the one having technical difficulties! Your YouTube video isn't pulling up for me, even though other ones are. Ugh! :(

I haven't encountered this issue, and I've been using Chrome and Firefox on Windows XP. I'm going to wait for Gailene to chime in!

Tammy Moore

07/13/2009 - 6:25pm

Oh, a bit more detail that may e of help. Yesterday I was entering the data in the morning so the default time listed was already an am time. Today, when I made the screen recording, it was about 1pm. Notice in the recording that that current pm time had prepopulated the field. Maybe that has something to do with why yesterday it would do am times but today it would not. Not sure if that will help, but you never know what bit of detail may hold the key. :0)

Tammy Moore

07/11/2009 - 5:49am

Sounds great! I have posted in the Moodle group. let's see if we can get a schedule worked up a bit there in which we all can all attend and then we will coordinate with the openings for the Learn Central Elluminate room. :0)