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Pooling sounds good to me. There doesnąt seem to be nearly as much of that going on here as there used to be. Wonder whatąs happened goodwill dried up.... or been drowned? Happy to share experience once we can get the Collab Tool working. Didnąt spot that the firewall ports had changed from v5 to v6. Could have been more prominent in the migration notes..... -- 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 60 > > From: John Green <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: John Green <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:55:51 +0100 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Bb6 Virtual Classroom > > 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 >