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Wimba Classroom

Wimba Classroom is the main tool for synchronous distance learning supported by CSU Chico. This software is generally used by faculty who are teaching from a distance education origination room on campus to students at a distance as well as those in the physical classroom. It is also now available to other faculty who need to conduct online course meetings or lectures. Contat TLP about using Wimba Classroom if you do not teach a synchronous distance education class.

Wimba Classroom gives instructors the ability to teach and meet with students live online. These live virtual classrooms support audio, video, application sharing, and content display, enabling instructors to add vitally important elements of interaction that otherwise cannot be done in a text-based course.

This synchronous teaching software also enables instructors to hold classes, virtual office hours, guest lectures, webcasts, and meetings.  Other important aspects of this software include: voice, video, application sharing, polling, and whiteboarding. Faculty and students can talk to each other and feel as if they're part of a single community.

Frequenty Asked Questions

Wimba Classroom Information 
Wimba Classroom Demonstrations
Wimba and Accessibility

Tutorials

Getting Ready

Adding Content

Audio, Video and Archives

Running the Setup Wizard

Setup Wizard with the Guest Link

Telephone Simulcast

Creating a PowerPoint for Wimba

Adding Content Using the File Manager:
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Adding Content Using Add and Manage Content:
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Using Audio in WImba Classroom:
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Using Video in Wimba Classroom

Making An Archive

Using Wimba for Lecture Capture

Showing Content

Interaction and Assessment

Additional Resources

Showing Content Slide

Enable a Student to Show a Slide

Showing a Web Site

Using the eBoard

Enable Students to use the eBoard

Best Practices for Application Sharing

Overview of the Participant Area

Creating a Poll in Wimba Classroom

Attendance Tracking and Chat Log:
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Presentation for Wimba, Dec. 8, 2008:
Lecture Capture with Wimba Classroom - The Chico Experience