Virtual Classroom

What is the Virtual Classroom tool?

The Virtual Classroom meeting space allows instructors, trainers, and learners to engage each other with livestream video. Instructors can engage a large audience and connect up to 7 simultaneous webcams.

Use Cases:

office hours
training sessions
live lectures

Accessing the Virtual Classroom Tool

The Virtual Classroom is not one of the default links in the navigation bar of your CourseLink course site, therefore you will need to add it your navigation bar. To do so please follow the instructions provided in the Customize Navbar section.

For Distance Education (DE) courses, the link appears under the drop-down menu of the Tools link on the navigation bar (provided that the course is using Dropbox).

Location of the Dropbox link on a DE course site

Using the Virtual Classroom tool?

Click Virtual Classroom. This will take you to the Virtual Classroom page.

Within the menu, select Scheduled Meetings.

SCHEDULE

Once you are on the Scheduled Meetings page, you can add a new Virtual Classroom session (Click the Plus icon in the lower right corner).

Name the meeting, then enter the date and time. If you would like the meeting to start immediately, select Now. Moderators can also enter meetings 10 minutes early to get started before others arrive.

Note: Depending on your organization’s membership, your maximum number of users may vary. You can also share up to 7 simultaneous webcams.

schedule meeting settings. It has title, timing options, cancel and save at the bottom.

Depending on your organization’s setup, you may or may not have the options highlighted in gray in the image above. If you do have these options, expand the button below to learn more.

When you are ready, click Save.

Once the meeting is scheduled, you can invite others – as well as edit or cancel the meeting. When the meeting time arrives, you will launch the Virtual Classroom meeting.