Virtual Classroom
For Online Courses

Menu Bar
Used by the instructor to record sessions, manage participation, manage breakout sessions.

Chat
Conversation area of the classroom. Students can send private messages or discuss the current topic with their fellow classmates and instructor.
Chat is the same as is in the Virtual Whiteboard, but is used alone without the Classroom Toolbox, or the Menu Bar.

Classroom Toolbox
Students can ask questions in an orderly fashion, search for other web sites to view, utilize the whiteboard and access the course map.

While the other features are fairly intuitive, the classroom toolbox requires a little explanation. The classroom toolbox contains the following....

Course map
Allows users to browse the course menu while in the Virtual Classroom.

Whiteboard
Is used much like a whiteboard in a traditional classroom. Pictures, diagrams, equations and any other items a person can think of can be drawn here. The instructor has the ability to grant or take away access to these tools so you may not have access to use them.

Group Browser
Allows the class to collaboratively browse the web.

Ask Question
Allows the students to ask questions without them being immediately viewed in the chat area.

Question Inbox
Allows users to answer questions that have been posted in the Ask Question area. Once the question is answered it is posted to the chat area with the answer, unless of course the answer was marked “private”.