Expand Collaboration with Wimba Pronto
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Created on Thursday, 10/22/2009 3:14 PM by Candace Woodson
Updated on Thursday, 10/22/2009 3:15 PM by Candace Woodson
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Created on Thursday, 10/22/2009 3:14 PM by Candace Woodson
Updated on Thursday, 10/22/2009 3:15 PM by Candace Woodson
What is Wimba Pronto?
Wimba Pronto is a first of its kind, academic instant messaging platform designed to bring informal learning settings online. Pronto encourages student engagement and collaboration. Wimba Pronto specifically benefits students, teachers, and educational institutions due to its unique features.
Why use Wimba Pronto?
Wimba Pronto is a first of its kind, academic instant messaging platform designed to bring informal learning settings online. Pronto encourages student engagement and collaboration. Wimba Pronto specifically benefits students, teachers, and educational institutions due to its unique features.
Why use Wimba Pronto?
- Wimba Pronto is free and can be used inside and outside of Blackboard
- The beauty of Pronto is that it knows what Blackboard sites you belong to and it automatically aggregates the students and instructors associated with each of the given Blackboard course sites, making it extremely easy for them to communicate and hold one-on-one and group text/audio chats.
- Every teacher on campus should launch Pronto at least during Office Hours to give students another option to talk to instructors over the Internet. Face-to-face is best but it is not always possible or convenient.
- Students use Pronto to collaborate on class projects either via scheduled Pronto chat sessions or ad hoc.
- Some instructors (including Ed Garay) use Pronto to administer short real-time audio student assignments and quiz/interviews. Most of the students love it. IM and text messaging is their thing!
- The ITL staff runs Pronto all day long to stay connected and provide yet another option for instant consultation & information exchange within the ITL staff.
- The ITL and in particular the new Student Multimedia Lab (SML) plans to use Pronto Instant Messenger and Twitter to provide instant Tech Support and consulting whenever possible and as an alternate communication option to traditional email-based & phone methods.
How to download Wimba Pronto
After Wimba Pronto has been successfully installed on your machine, all you have to do is log into Pronto with your Pronto ID and password (UIC netID and general password).
If you have trouble downloading or using Wimba Pronto, please feel free to contact the Instructional Technology Lab either by email: itl@uic.edu or by phone: 312-996-9824.
- Log into Blackboard.
- Located under "Course Tools" click on "Pronto".
- Click on "Register and Download Wimba Pronto".
- A new window will open confirming that you want to download Pronto. From this screen you can choose which courses you want to appear in your Wimba Pronto client and as an instructor you can enable or disable Pronto for all participants in a specific course.
- Once you have verified that the settings are correct, you can download Wimba Pronto. Just make sure you choose the correct Operating System (Mac OS X or Windows Vista, XP Windows 2000).
- Choose run or save the file.
- That's it. Start communicating with your students and classmates today!
After Wimba Pronto has been successfully installed on your machine, all you have to do is log into Pronto with your Pronto ID and password (UIC netID and general password).
If you have trouble downloading or using Wimba Pronto, please feel free to contact the Instructional Technology Lab either by email: itl@uic.edu or by phone: 312-996-9824.
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