This tutorial is composed of OHL
images and text explanation of its functions.
A. General Instructions
By choosing to use Office Hours
Live, faculty can communicate with up to 14 students via 2-way
audio.
By choosing to use Lecture Hall,
faculty can broadcast (audio) a lecture to up to 19 students, but
students participate in the session via text.
Both, OHL and Lecture Hall allow
the professor to speak throughout the session, type text messages,
show any computer applications such as Microsoft Power Point or Excel,
poll students, share files, and show Internet sites.
OHL requires that faculty and
students have microphone and speakers in their computers.
Lecture Hall requires that the
instructor has a microphone and speakers, but students only need
speakers.
Before using OHL or Lecture Hall
for the first time, instructors and students need to perform the
Horizon Live Inc. Wizzard (available at
http://officehourslive.com)
B. Starting Office Hours Live
After having run the Wizzard
described above, it is important that faculty members and students
close their browsers and re-start them again.
The login process is different
for faculty and for students.
As seen in the picture above,
there is an icon for faculty to logon into OHL on the left hand side
of the OHL website (http://www.officehourslive.com)
As faculty click on the
INSTRUCTOR login button, the following screen is displayed:
The
instructor username is: oll0203 (for the 2002-03 Academic Year).
Please contact the OLL Program (215) 204-3943 to receive the
instructor's password to enter OHL.
C. Class Management Options
Via
the Class Management, the instructor can save Microsoft Power Point
presentations for easy access
during the OHL session;
The
instructors' picture or any other GIF or JPG image (135 pixels wide x
150 pixels tall) can also be uploaded and selected to be
displayed in the lower right OHl window;
The
instructor can choose to enter the Office or Lecture Hall areas (by
click on JOIN LOBBY) and to publish a Lecture Hall session to be
archived (by clicking on the Eye icon); and
An
archived session can be deleted.
D. OHL Lobby area
After
clicking on the Class Management Screen's JOIN LOBBY, instructors then
see the OHL lobby area and can then choose if they are entering the LIVE
SESSIONS: Office Hours Live session or the Lecture Hall one. In addition,
if the previous Lecture Hall sessions were archived, they will be
available in the SESSION ARCHIVES area. Sometimes instructors and students
get confused and when they reach this screen, they think that they have
reached the OHL class area. This is not true, they need to click on one of
the 2 live sessions in order to really join the class session.
E. OHL classroom
LEFT
IMAGE
If microphone/speakers are connected, as soon as the classroom screen is
accessed, a screen with the Audio Console will pop up on top of it. This
screen can later be minimized, but it is a good indicator of the audio
capabilities of your computer. The Talk Status box displays a green light
when you speak. The Floor box, shows you who has the floor and is
speaking.
RIGHT
IMAGE
This is how the OHL classroom looks like. In the next session, all its
functions will be explained.
F. OHL classroom (cont.)
1. Text Features
This
is how the classroom screen looks like.
The
blue control panel (located on the right hand side of the screen
is not seen by the students). Therefore, the students
content/slide/URL display area is a little larger than the
instructor's one.
The
lower part of the screens are used for text communication
(chat), where instructors and students have to type a message at
the SEND A MESSAGE bar and click on the ENTER keyboard button to
have it posted to the class.
The
OHL classroom also has polling features, which allow students to
click on YES, NO, or ? buttons to answer to a question made by
the instructor.
In
addition, by clicking on the TELL icon, students and instructors
can also send private messages to each other.
2. Blue
Control Panel Features
For
the OHL officelive session, there is no use for the Session recording
icons, located on the top are of the Blue control panel.
The
Detach icon allows you
to detach the control panel and located in a different area of your
desktop computer.
The
WEB
icon allows you to type a new URL to be showed in the session.
The
eBoard
brings up the whiteboard (which will be seen in the next session) and
to activate the Live Application features.
Finally,
all the pre-entered URLs needed for the session will also be displayed
in the lower part of the Blue Control Panel screen.
G. OHL E-Board
When
the e-Board is active, drawing and writing tools can be displayed, in
additon to any computer applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power
Point, SPSS files or others.
The
WIPE icon will allow you to clear any text or arrows included on top
of a computer application screen, without deleting the image of the
computer application that being displayed.
The
CLEAR icon will clear the whiteboard, including the image of the
computer application that is being displayed.
The
IMPORT icon will allow a JPG file to be imported into the e-Board
The
APP (activates the Live Application - showed in the next session)
And
the ENABLE icon will allow any student to take control of the e-Board
tools, except for the Live Application tools.
H. OHL Live Application
To
learn that the APP function works in your computer, when you click on it
you should be able to see the following two images.
Image
on the LEFT:
In
order to select and display any computer application, the following 5
steps are needed:
1. In the LiveApp Controls: Select
Screen Area
2. Then select Manual
to control when to change each image
3. Open the application to be displayed
4. Resize the APP scren area to fit the image to be displayed
5. Click on the SEND button
in the APP box.
Image
on the RIGHT:
As
you can see, the image on the right has dots than can be dragged for image
size adjustments. You can open any application in your computer and
send a snap shot of it to your students (via the Eboard), as long as you
insert the image to be sent within the dotted Live APP lines. You will
also need to see in your desktop the LiveAPP screen, in order to click on
its SEND button. This tool is good to share Excel, SPSS, and other
computer aplications. However, Power Point Presentations can be shared via
the Carousel tool, which will be described in detail in the next section.
I. Using the Carousel tool to upload
a Power Point slide show
After
having selected the OHL or the Lecture Hall office, click on the New
Carousel Icon.
You
will then be prompt to the following screen:
Enter a Title for your PPT
Presentation and click on the CREATE icon.
You will be back at the Session's Slides list, where you will
see the presentation title that you had just created. Click on it
to upload your Power Point Slides file.
After that, enter the LOBBY area and you will see your
presentation within the pull down menu area. Select your
presentation and click on the GO icon and you will see all your
Power Point slides listed for you to view and share.
