Videoconferences with WOW@Home

Checking Your Camera and Mic Settings

Chrome settings instructions

You must use Chrome

1. Accessing Your Class
Click on the link provided to open up Faculty Wall Main. Click the Enter icon next to your class.
Click Start Class (students won’t be able to enter the class until you do)

2. Navigation + Controls
You can access different views and features by clicking the tabs in the navigation bar at the top. Wall - see a gallery view of your students Share (default view) - see your slides (or any other material you are sharing), with a scrollable view of your students on the left Whiteboard - [needs further testing] Breakouts - break students into different groups [needs further testing] Create Poll - create and share a poll during class and see and share results Chat - text chat window Raised Hands - see who has raised their hand during your presentation
Control bar at the bottom of the screen: Lower Hands - lowers all raised hands Mute All - mutes all students Auto Mute On - mutes students after they haven’t spoken for 20 seconds. (This is on by default) Rate Off - ? End Class - ends the session

3. Sharing Slides
Open up your slides If using Google slides (or you just want to share a webpage), open them in a new browser tab or window If using Powerpoint: Open your slides in Powerpoint. From the top menu, go to Slide Show > Set Up Show Check “Browsed by an individual (window)”, then OK Start your slide show - it will now open in a separate window.
Go back to the WOW interface, and the (default) Share view. Click “Share screen.”
Find your slides in the pop-up window. If using Powerpoint, go to Application Window and select your Powerpoint slides. Alternately, you can share any other browser window or application you have open (e.g. Google slides). Click Share. Please do not select “Your Entire Screen” when sharing. (This is not an optimal view for students.)
Your slides will now be visible to students in the WOW interface. You can return to Powerpoint and advance your slides as normal. (This will be reflected in the WOW interface). Hide the sharing notification at the bottom of the screen (so that it doesn’t obscure slides - students can see this too unless you hide it).

In order to advance your slides AND see the WOW interface, you will need to position and resize your Powerpoint window so that it sits on top of the WOW interface. If you click back to the WOW interface during your class, (e.g. to switch to gallery view or view the chat window), remember that you will need to bring the Powerpoint application back to the front in order to advance slides - to do this, click the Powerpoint icon in the dock.)

4. Annotating Your Slides
In the Share view, click the pencil icon in the lower right. You can choose different annotation tools and adjust settings from the menu at the top. Clicking the Trash icon will erase all annotations.

Note: When annotating with text, you need to click out of the pencil tool after typing your text in order for the text to become visible to students.

All annotations will be erased when you stop sharing your slides.

5. Student Gallery
To see your students in a full-screen gallery, you will need to stop sharing your slides. Click the Wall icon in the top navigation.

6. Sharing a YouTube Video
From the Share window, click the YouTube icon
Copy the video ID from the YouTube link (sequence of letters/numbers after the = sign in the URL)
Paste the video ID in the Video ID field and click Share YouTube.
Your video will now appear in the share window and be visible to students. Click the video play button.
To share another video, click “Stop sharing YouTube”, and then enter a new Video ID.

7. Sharing a PDF
From the Share window, click the PDF icon
Select “Click or drag file to upload”
Choose a PDF to upload. Once it has finished uploading (takes a few seconds), click Share PDF.
Your PDF will appear in the window and be visible to students. You can either scroll through the PDF or advance pages by using the right or left arrow keys.
Alternately, you can send the PDFs to IE beforehand, and they will have them uploaded to your session before it starts. In that case, click “Choose uploaded file” (instead of “Click or drag file to upload”).

8. Polls
Click the “Create Poll” tab from the top navigation menu.
Click “New Poll” and enter your prompt and answer choices.
Click Start poll. Once everyone has responded, click Stop poll.
You then have the options to Save Poll, Save Results, Show Results, or Start (a new) poll.

9. Ending the Class
Click the “End Class” button from the bottom control panel.
Click “Leave” call.
Once you leave the call a CSV file will automatically be downloaded to your computer. Please email the downloaded file to your instructional designer. The file provides information about attendance and participation.