Wimba Live Classroom is a fully featured, virtual live classroom that is integrated into your Blackboard course site. Wimba Live Classroom supports audio, video, application sharing, and content display, enabling faculty and instructors to add vitally important elements of interaction that simply cannot be provided in a text-based course. Uses for Wimba Live Classroom include live online classes, office hours, guest lectures, Webcasts, and meetings.
Enable Wimba in your Blackboard course
To enable Wimba Live Classroom in your Blackboard course site, send an e-mail to the Blackboard Support Team in Computing & Information Technology at bbadmin@wayne.edu. The request must include faculty member’s name, AccessID, term, course ID, and three-digit section number (e.g., 001).
NOTE: There is a two-business day turnaround to enable a course site as WSU's Blackboard system administrator currently accomplishes this manually.
Obtain Wimba consultation and training
WSU faculty and instructors interested in exploring Wimba Live Classroom for instructional use are encouraged to contact Anne-Marie Armstrong in WSU's Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL), via e-mail at dv3709@wayne.edu or by phone at (313) 577-5605.
You can take advantage of the Wimba workshops through the OTL or schedule a one-on-one consultation.
For additional information about Wimba Live Classroom, faculty may also wish to explore the Wimba Website.
Monday through Friday:
–8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (fall, winter)
–8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (spring/summer)
- Contact the WSU Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) Help Desk:
Phone: (313) 577-4778
E-mail: helpdesk@wayne.edu
Note: WSU E-mail support from the C&IT Help Desk is available every day except major holidays. Turn-around time is two days or less.
- Access Wimba online resources:
Support and services for instructors
For Quick Start Training using:
- PDF guides that will empower interaction and best practices in your courses,
- PowerPoint presentations, and
- a growing list of Flash videos that will visually show you how to use Wimba products in your courses.
For documentation, in the form of a Presenter/User Guide, Accessibility Best Practices, and a Blackboard 6.3-8.0 User Guide, all of which you can download in PDF.
Support and services for students
For documentation, in the form of a Participant/User Guide that students can download in PDF and also for Wimba Basics resources, such as quick start PowerPoint presentations and videos.
Outside C&IT Help Desk business hours:
–Monday through Friday, 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.
–Saturday and Sunday
- Contact the Wimba Technical Support Center:
Toll-Free Phone: (866) 350-4978
E-mail: technicalsupport@wimba.com
Live Chat: access at http://www.wimba.com/technicalsupport
- Access Wimba online resources:
Support and services for instructors
Support and services for studentsNOTE: WSU E-mail support from the C&IT Help Desk is available every day except major holidays at helpdesk@wayne.edu. Turn-around time is two days or less.
