This module explains how to use the Collaboration Tools to participate in real-time lessons and discussions with your instructor and/or others students.
The Collaboration Tools allow the instructor and students to participate in synchronous (at the same time) lessons and discussions. Examples of these sessions include real-time, online classroom discussions, office hour type question/answer forums, and group project discussions. Archives of previous sessions are also available for review. Guest speakers and subject-matter experts can also lead sessions using the collaboration tools. One of the tools available is the Virtual Classroom or chat room. This can be used when several students and/or the instructor all join the same session at the same time.
Most chats are text based and you type what you would normally say and everyone else in the chat room can see what you have written. Other students will then comment and you can read what they are saying. In the Virtual Classsroom you also have access to a shared whiteboard where you can draw things and a group web browser, where all participants can view the same web page at the same time. |
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