On Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms, the Activity Window always remains in front of the Elluminate Live! main window. On Solaris, if you click on the main Elluminate Live! window, the Activity Window will move behind the main window.The Activity Window is a stand-alone window in Elluminate Live! that reports various events that take place in Elluminate Live! through the duration of a session. The window has a simple design so you can use a screen reader to navigate through the user interface and read the events as they occur. The Activity Window also enables you to perform simple functions through a command line interface.
The window consists of the following main components:
The Tool Bar, at the top of the window, contains the Show/Hide Command Input Field button, the Audible Notifications Filter, the Module Event Filter and the Importance Event Filter. (These are described a little later.)
The Event Panel, in the middle of the window, reports the events that have occurred in the session.
The Command Input Field, at the bottom of the window, enables you to type commands to perform some basic tasks in Elluminate Live!
Opening and Closing the Activity Window
Opening and closing the Activity Window is simple so you can access it without your attention being diverted from the session in progress. If you move to a different window in Elluminate Live!, you easily can bring the Activity Window back into focus (activate it).
You also can move, resize or close the Activity Window so it is not obtrusive.
On Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms, the Activity Window always remains in front of the Elluminate Live! main window. On Solaris, if you click on the main Elluminate Live! window, the Activity Window will move behind the main window.
To open or activate (bring into focus) the Activity Window, do one of the following:
Enter the Accelerator key Control / (Command / on Mac)
Select Window > Activity using the mnemonic Alt W A (no Mac equivalent)
To close the Activity Window, do one of the following:
Enter the Accelerator key Control W (Command W on Mac)
Enter the Accelerator key Alt F4 (no Mac equivalent)
Notable events that occur in an Elluminate Live! session are displayed in the Event panel of the Activity Window. By default, events of all Elluminate Live! modules are displayed and the approximate time each event occurred is noted. Moderators can see all events and Participants can see only a subset of events.
When a new event is reported, keyboard focus stays at the last place you had it (the last cursor position is maintained and the window will not scroll to the new message at the bottom). You need to manually move focus to the new event using your arrow keys or scroll bar so you can read the new text.
The complete list of events is shown in the Event Filtering Preferences panel. (For details, refer to Event Filtering Preferences Panel.)
You can select which events you want displayed in your own Event panel through the Module Event Filter and the Importance Event Filter menus in the Activity Window or through the Event Filtering preferences panel.
The events you hide or display will affect what is displayed in your own Event panel only – it will not affect what others see in their own Event panels.
You can select which events for which you want to be audibly notified through the Audible Notifications Filter in the Activity Window or through the Audible Notifications Preferences panel.
Audible notifications are system messages sent by Elluminate Live! to notify users when certain important events occur within the session. These notifications are presented as sounds.
To open the Audible Notifications Filter menu, click on the Audible Notification Filter button in the tool bar. You can specify which set of audible notifications you would like to hear (all, basic or custom) from the Audible Notifications Filter. These are the same set of notifications you can configure in the Audible Notifications Preferences panel. See Audible Notifications for details.
Custom Audible Notifications are the set of individual notifications that you selected in the Audible Notifications Preferences panel, rather than selecting All or Basic.
The filtering options set in the Audible Notifications Filter are reflected in the Audible Notifications Preferences panel. Likewise, if you make a change to the options in the Audible Notifications Preferences panel, you will see these changes in the Audible Notifications Filter as well.
The Module Event Filter is used to include or exclude all events associated with a particular Elluminate Live! module. By default, all modules are included.
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To open the Module Event Filter menu, click on the Module Event Filter button in the tool bar. To exclude events of a module, de-select the module name from the menu: Activity,1 Application Sharing, Audio, Chair, Chat, File Transfer, Interaction, Multimedia, Participants, Quiz Manager, Recorder, Timer, Video and Whiteboard.
To turn display of a module’s events back on, select the module name again.
To display some but not all events associated with a module, use the Event Filtering Preferences panel. (For details, refer to Event Filtering Preferences Panel.)
The Importance Event Filter is a menu that enables you to filter events based on what is important or relevant. It also has an option to turn off/on the time stamps that appear in the Event panel.
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You can pick only one of All Events, Common Events or Important Events.
To open the Importance Event Filter menu, click on the Importance Event Filter button in the tool bar. The menu has the following options:
Show Notifications − Notifications are system messages sent by Elluminate Live! to alert users when certain events occur: user joined or left the session, Moderator privileges granted, Timer expired and Chat announcement sent or received. By default, notifications will be displayed in your Event panel. If you don’t want Notifications displayed in your Event panel, select Hide Notifications. The menu item will change to Show Notifications; select this to turn display of Notifications back on.
The Hide/Show Notifications option affects what is displayed in your Event panel only. It will not affect whether or not a Visual Notification is shown in its own floating window; that is set in the Visual Notifications Preferences panel (see Visual Notifications). Conversely, what is set in the Visual Notifications Preferences panel will not affect what is displayed in the Event panel.
Show My Events − By default, the events that you triggered (e.g., raise your hand or turn on your microphone) will not be displayed in your Event panel. (They may, however, be displayed in the event panel of others, depending on the event.) If you want to display these events in your own Event panel, select Show My Events. The menu item will change to Hide My Events; select this to turn display of your events back off.
All Events − By default, events of all importance are displayed in the Event panel. If you don’t want to see all events, select either Common Events or Important Events.
Common Events − Select this option to display all events except the interaction events: Raise Hand/Lower Hand, Stepped Away/Came Back buttons and the emoticons Laughter, Applause, Confusion and Disapproval.
Important Events − Select this option to display only a small subset of events, such as when a user has joined a session, when you have been granted the Moderator privilege or when you have received a Chat message.
Hide Times − Select this option to turn off/on the time stamps that appear in the Event panel. For further details, see Showing/Hiding Time Stamps.
Event Filtering Preferences Panel
If you want to filter events at a greater level of granularity than is offered by the Module Event Filter, you can do so in the Event Filtering Preferences panel. Here you can pick and choose which individual events in a particular module you want to be displayed in the Event panel.
1. Open the Preferences dialog in one of the following ways:
From the Tools menu, select Preferences… or use the mnemonic Alt TF (Windows, Linux & Solaris)
From the Elluminate Live! (Apple) menu, select Preferences (Mac OS X)
Enter Control Comma (Windows, Linux & Solaris)
Enter Command Comma (Mac OS X)
2. In the left pane of the Preferences dialog, select Activity > Event Filtering. The Event Filtering preferences panel appears. The events are listed according to the module to which they belong. Each event has a drop-down menu from which you can select the option to display the event Normally, Always or Never.
3. Select the desired option for each of the events listed under the module names. Normally is the default option.
The filtering set in the Event Filtering Preferences panel always overrides the filtering set in the Activity Window menus. For example, if you turn off the Audio module events in the Activity Window but have Microphone turned on set to display Always in the Preferences panel, whenever you turn on your microphone in the session, the event will be reported in the Events panel.
Normally – Select this option if you would like to use the filtering defined by the Activity Window’s Module and Importance Event Filters.
Always – Select this option if you would like to always display this event, even if it has been excluded from display by the Activity Window’s Module and Importance Event Filters.
Never – Select this option if you would like to never display this event, even if it has been included for display by the Activity Window’s Module and Importance Event Filters
4. Click on OK to save your preferences and close the Preferences dialog, Apply to save your preferences and leave the Preferences dialog open or Cancel to close the Preference dialog without saving any of your changes.
When you configure the Event Filtering preferences, Elluminate Live! will remember these settings each time you join another session from the same computer.
To restore the default settings, select Restore Panel “Event Filtering” or Restore Module “Activity” from the Restore Defaults menu in the lower-left corner of the Preferences window.
By default, the text in the Activity Window is determined by your operating system (typically 10 or 11 points).
To make the text larger, right-click (Control Click on Mac) anywhere in the Activity Window to open the context menu and select Make Text Bigger.
To make the text smaller, right-click (Control Click on Mac) anywhere in the Activity Window to open the context menu and select Make Text Smaller.
To return the text to the default size, right-click (Control Click on Mac) anywhere in the Activity Window to open the context menu and select Default Size.
By default, the Event panel displays a time stamp every 5 minutes. Any events that occur in the next five minute period will appear beneath that time stamp in the Event panel. For example, a time stamp will be reported at 1:00 PM and any events that occur between 1:00 PM and 1:05 PM will be listed beneath the 1:00 PM time stamp. If there is no activity in a 5 minute period, (for example, between 1:05 PM and 1:10 PM), no time stamp will be reported for that period (for example, 1:05 PM will not be reported). The next time stamp displayed will be for the next five minute period in which events occurred.
If you want to hide the time stamps in the Event panel, select Hide Time from the Importance Event Filter. The menu item will change to Show Times; select this to turn the display of times back on.
Reading Events with a Screen Reader
A screen reader will not automatically read an event as it appears in the Activity Window. To be notified that an event has just been added to the Activity Window, turn on the Audible Notification Activity Event Occurred. (For instructions, see Audible Notifications.)
When a new event is reported, keyboard focus stays at the place you last had it (the last cursor position is maintained and the window will not scroll to the new message at the bottom). You need to manually move focus to the new event using your arrow keys so your screen reader can read the new text.
The Activity Window enables you to perform simple functions through the Command Input field. This field is normally hidden.
To enter a command, do the following:
1. Open the Command Input field in one of the following ways:
Click on the Show/Hide Command Input field button in the tool bar.
The field will remain open until you click on the Show/Hide Command Input field button again.
Type / (forward slash). The /, which is the first character required to enter a command, will be entered into the Command Input field.
The field will close after you have entered your command and pressed Enter or Return.
2. Enter a / (if not already there) followed by your command. For a list of the commands and their syntax, refer to Live Session Commands and Recording Playback Command below.
3. Press Enter or Return to process the command.
If the command is unknown, has an unknown or invalid parameter or an error occurs while processing the command, a message to that effect will be displayed in the Event panel. If the command is successful, nothing is displayed.
After the command has been processed, focus returns to the Event panel.
These commands can be used only in a live session, not while listening to a recording.
Each command starts with a / (forward slash) and is followed by parameters. Where there is more than one available parameter, they are listed together and separated by a | (pipe). Enter only one parameter.
Syntax: /hand up|down
Syntax: /audio computer|phone
Syntax: /talk on|off
Syntax: /chat @<recipient> <message>
where
<recipient> is one of the options in Chat’s To menu: “This Room”, Moderators, “Selected Participants” or the name of a current session attendee (which will appear in the menu). These options are not case-sensitive.
“This Room” is the default so, if you want to send to “This Room” you don’t need to enter @<recipient>. Example:
/chat This is my message.
Enclose <recipient> in quotation marks if it contains an ambiguous term. For example, let’s say there are two Participants, one named Mary and one named Mary Hansen. If you want to send Mary Hansen the message “Hello Mary”, enclose her name in quotation marks:
/chat @“Mary Hansen” Hello Mary
If you enter
/chat @Mary Hansen Hello Mary
you will send the other Mary the message “Hansen Hello Mary”.
<message> is the text of your message.
Syntax: /video preview|on|off
Syntax: /react laughter|applause|confusion|disapproval
Syntax: /answer none|yes|no|a|b|c|d|e|faster|slower
Syntax: /status away|back
This command can be used only while listening to a recording. It starts with a / and is followed by one of three parameters, listed together and separated by a | (pipe). Enter only one parameter.
Syntax: /playback start|pause|stop
1. These are messages related to the commands you enter in Command input field, such as usage tips and error messages. (Back to main text.)
