Working with Elluminate Plan!
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The process step by step
1. Constructing the materials for the class using the Elluminate Plan! software – we
produce the elpx file containing Power Point presentations which we would like to
use inside the class. Thus, we produce “Event Materials”.
2. Uploading the Materials to the campus – transferring the materials to the server.
3. Classifying the Materials – after uploading the materials we define the Materials
as “our own” inside the Teacher’s office.
4. assigning Materials to a certain class schedule.
Opening Elluminate Plan!
Start  All Programs  Elluminate Plan!  Elluminate Plan!
Creating new Materials
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Use the “Embed a content” button to start inserting files:
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Browse your computer and locate the file you wish to insert:
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Please note that you can only insert PPT files !
File conversion
Inserted files can be used in class in two ways:
1. Displayed on whiteboard (should be used as default)
2. Displayed on an external window, using the default application (for example PPT
files will open using PowerPoint)
If you wish to display the file on the whiteboard, click “Yes” when prompted:
File conversion
Next, you can change the size of the screen.
It is recommended to choose the default size
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Please note that PowerPoint cannot run at the background while conversion is in
progress !
Creating a plan
• After a conversion, files will be inserted in the
plan’s library as WBD files (WhiteBoarD).
Creating a plan
• Drag the wdb file into the plan
• Repeat this step to add more then one wbd
file.
Creating a plan
• Once finished, your plan should look like this:
Creating a plan
• If you wish to create a quiz, upload different
file types, create links to websites or other
plan features, please see slide 16 – “Advanced
plans”.
Uploading materials
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Save the Plan! file by choosing file Save As…
How to name your materials file?
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Prefix
Teacher’s initials
Class name
Lesson number
For example:
Heb_AK_UlpanB_12.elpx
* An appropriate Prefix can be found inside the teacher’s office under the “Content” tab.
Uploading materials
• Once you’ve saved your elpx file, log into the
teacher’s office and open Elluminate's content
page:
Uploading materials
• Use the “browse” button to find the elpx file
on your computer, and choose “Upload”.
Assigning materials
• In the “Content” section under “My lessons” list you
will see all scheduled events.
• Choose one of your uploaded content files from the
menu.
• Check one or more lessons and click “Update”.
Assigning materials
• By default, the materials window will show materials
uploaded in the past week.
– You can change the dates to find older materials.
– You can choose other teacher’s materials by using the drop
down menu
Advanced plans
• The Session Plan uses “Actions” whom you can
embed your plan.
• Following are some
examples.
Web Tour
• Click the “Add action” button
and choose “Web Tour”.
– By default you should use “Go to
web Tour URL” to open a website
on the screen.
– You can also use the action to
send all participants a link using
the chat (Publish Web Tour URL to
Chat)
Web Tour
• After creating the Web Tour action, you will need
to define the destination URL in the properties
panel (located on the right)
Add Multimedia
• You can use this option to upload files such as:
WMV, MPEG, MP3, QuickTime or Flash files
Add Multimedia
Steps:
– First upload the file into the library.
– In the Properties panel, choose the Browse button
– An additional window will pop which will enbale
you to choose a multimedia file from the library.
Polling
• Choose Add Action Polling  Set Poll Type
Use the Properties panel
to choose the poll type
(for example “Yes/No”)
Creating a quiz
The process:
• Creating a quiz
• Saving the quiz (vcq file)
• Uploading in to the library
• Creating an “action” to open the quiz
Creating quizzes
• Open the ”View” menu and choose “Show Tab
Bar”.
• Click the “Quiz” tab
• Choose “Create a new quiz”
Creating quizzes
• Name your quiz:
• Add questions to the quiz:
Creating quizzes
• Define answers for the question:
• If you are creating a multiple choice question
make sure to define the correct answer:
Creating quizzes
• Click the save quiz button:
• In the window that pops up, choose the quiz
or quizzes you wish to save from the list of
created quizzes and save it to
a location on your computer.
Embedding a quiz
• Import the quiz file into the library.
• Choose Add Action Quiz Load Quiz
Use the properties panel to
browse and define the quiz:
Organizing you plan
• You can control the order of actions (as well as
slides) by dragging them: