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We have held a number of practice sessions and none of them have been entirely smooth. It is difficult though to pin down problems though because of the large variety of workstations scattered around College. We have got the Java working properly and we can connect from home and mostly things are working as they should but we find that, after a while in the session, the contributions some of the participants make do not appear on screen and then the only solution is to close the tool and reopen it. We suspect that this gets worse when we are recording a session but need to do some more testing to verify this suspicion. I also find that once a session degenerates like this, it is impossible to turn off the recording without exiting. It's an ambiguous signal when the moderator leaves! We have reported to Blackboard that the users all enter the Virtual Classroom as Active Users although the manual says they should be passive. BB have acknowledged this as a fault and kicked it back to the software engineers. We find it irritating that the VC screen is designed for 1024 display settings, all our PCs are locked down to 800x600 and this means that the compose box and some important tools are off the screen! What is irritating is that there is actually a resizing tool in the bottom right corner of the panel that does not work. We have reported this but there is no intention to fix it. I am glad you have asked about the collaboration tools, Mark. It is difficult in one institution to get sufficient practice/evidence to build up a clear picture of the performance of these tools. Perhaps we should continue to pool and compare our findings regularly? John Green -----Original Message----- From: Mark Gamble [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 26 June 2003 09:50 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Bb6 Virtual Classroom Anybody using Bb6 Basic had trouble with Virtual Classroom and Chat Lite? -- Regards Mark Mark Gamble Head of Learning Technology Support University of Luton, Park Square, Luton, LU1 3JU Tel (+44)1582 489260 Fax (+44)1582 489259 Mob 07720 068605