Elluminate Live! (ELive)
Monash University Trial
Associate Professor Sally Joy
Associate Dean Teaching (Innovation and Quality)
Faculty of Business & Economics
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Introduction
• Elluminate Live! (ELive) is a synchronous web tool
suitable for online collaboration, classrooms,
demonstrations, meetings, web conferences, seminars
and IT deployment, training and support.
• Moderators control interaction through a set of tools
allowing control over participant’s ability to use the
microphone, edit the whiteboard, import presentations or
documents, message the group, use their webcam and
interact with shared applications. Elluminate’s unique
‘Communication Collaboration Framework’ also permits
full oversight and management of the performance of
each participant’s connection and devices in each
session.
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Tools
Online classrooms and collaboration:
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Full-duplex VoIP with individual audio buffering of lagging connections
Text chat and direct messaging
Video on demand (one-to-many)
Object-oriented, interactive whiteboard with text box capability and PPT/PDF
import;
Application sharing, including full PC access
Private breakout rooms with separate VoIP and Whiteboard
Polling and quizzes (prepared or ‘on-the-fly’)
Guided web tours and URL pushes
Multimedia playback (up to 100MB)
File transfer (up to 100MB)
Interactive recordings with URL links that can be indexed
Individual notepad pop-up that synchronises with recordings
Session timer/stopwatch
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Other general features
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Auto Internet reconnection and individual
bandwidth management
Free Session Administration System (SAS)
software for session permissions, set-up,
scheduling, invitations, recording and
reporting of usage
Highly secure connectivity (SSL Protocol
Version 3.0)
Foreign language versions in 8 languages
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Accessibility and Usability
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Adheres to Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Web Accessibility Initiative and two US acts;
the Americans Disability Act (ADA) and the
Rehabilitation Act, Section 508.
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The system is cross-platform compatible
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Some related features include closed captioning,
screen-reader support, user controlled interface
layout and application sharing magnifier
Windows, MAC, Solaris or Linux
The system provides individual bandwidth
management (accepts 28.8k connections) and
participant status indicators to the moderator
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Integration
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Blackboard Building Blocks
Blackboard PowerLinks (WebCT)
eCollege Course Management System
Moodle Course Management System
Sakai Collaborative Learning
Environment
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Vendor Supported Trial
• Elluminate has agreed in writing to a free, no obligation
ASP hosted trial for Monash University during Semester 2
2007
• Unlimited general use for meetings and collaboration will
also be allowed, this will be available prior to the
commencement of Semester 2 2007
• The trial will be facilitated through Yellow Edge,
Elluminate Global’s partner in Australia and New Zealand
• Elluminate will host the technology required for the trial
from Calgary, Canada, including their Session
Administration System (SAS) for user management. It will
provide assistance to the University for web-based
access through Monash systems.
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Elluminate Live could be trialed in some of
the following areas:
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Online teaching
Collaboration and meetings with staff at
remote/overseas campuses
Teacher-to-student and student-to-student
collaboration
Allowing Distance Education students to
participate remotely in on-campus lectures
Meetings or seminars
Demonstrations and training
Remote IT support
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Trial - Timeline
• June - Asked Faculties for nomination of
a contact person (Educational
Technology Committee)
• Mid/Late June - Formalising pilot
participants
• July - Moderator Training
• July to November - Trial
• December – Evaluation report available
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