Wimba Live Classroom is a fully featured, virtual live classroom that is integrated into your Blackboard course site to help you make the most of your online courses. Wimba Live Classroom supports audio, video, application sharing, and content display. This enables 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.
Wimba Live Classroom is available to all WSU students and faculty who use the Blackboard Learning System at Wayne State. You access Wimba the same way you would access any other tool within Blackboard.
No additional software is needed to use Wimba Live Classroom. Wimba is integrated into your Blackboard course site.
The first time you use Wimba, however, the system runs you through a wizard that checks to see whether your computer is configured to optimize all the Wimba features. You then may be referred to Websites where you can get the required plug-ins for your Web browser.
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 students
For documentation, in the form of a Participant/User Guide you can download in PDF and also for Wimba Basics resources, such as quick start PowerPoint presentations and videos.For a link to the Wimba Support Center, which includes technical support directly from Wimba, via a toll-free line and e-mail, a technical knowledgebase, and user forums. (Also see link below.)
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
NOTE: 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.
