Getting Started for Instructors

Logging in JMU WebEx Training Center at jmu.webex.com with your JMU eID.

Creating the online virtual learning environment for your class by scheduling a WebEx
Training session and sending a copy of the invitation to yourself.

Libraries and Educational Technologies (LET), LET Support: 540-568-5312, letsupport@jmu.edu

While WebEx Training Center is being integrated to
Canvas, it is recommended to copy/post the class meeting
invitation from your email to the Canvas Announcement for
class.
Libraries and Educational Technologies (LET), LET Support: 540-568-5312, letsupport@jmu.edu
To prepare for the class meeting, make sure connect your
headset with microphone and webcam to your computer or
laptop. Using a headset will minimize unnecessary
background sound and optimize the audio effect of a
class meeting.
Right after the meeting session starts, make sure select
Call Using Computer if you use a web browser (vs. an App)
to join a WebEx class meeting, and Test
speaker/microphone.
Make sure select Call
Using Computer &
Test
speaker/microphone
Managing a WebEx online virtual classroom with the Session Info and Participation Panels

Toggle between Participation and Chat windows

Participant
Window

Toggle
Video/Mute
Audio

Session Participant Reaction

Info Bar View Chat
window

Enter Chat
window

Libraries and Educational Technologies (LET), LET Support: 540-568-5312, letsupport@jmu.edu

Presenting in a WebEx online virtual classroom with presentation function

Annotation & Navigation

Various views of presentation

Check and Clear

Participation
feedback
feedback status

Toggle between participants, chat, recording, and

polling results

Libraries and Educational Technologies (LET), LET Support: 540-568-5312, letsupport@jmu.edu

Video Tutorials from Lynda
Logging in http://sites.jmu.edu/lynda/ with your JMU eID, and looking for the following
course:

Up and Running with WebEx Training Center

The following segments from the course highlight the core functions for teaching with
WebEx Training Center with step-by-step directions:

Scheduling and setting up a training session (1m 36s)

Understanding the Participant panel features (3m 21s)
Uploading files and polls to share (6m 10s)
Displaying slides and animations (3m 3s)
Annotating slides and whiteboards (6m 48s)
Presenting audio and video files (2m 12s)
Sharing a live application (8m 56s)
Setting up breakout sessions (1m 12s)
Sharing a website (55s)
Sharing web content (1m 29s)
Recording sessions (5m 28s)

For further support and information about WebEx for teaching and learning, please
contact LET Support: 540-568-5312, letsupport@jmu.edu.

Image references:
WebEx

Wikimedia Commons

Siim Sepp, 2006 Igneous rock gabbro. Photomicrograph with crossed polars.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Gabbro_pmg_ss_2006.jpg

Thin sections of limestone rocks under an optical microscope

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thin_sections.JPG

Libraries and Educational Technologies (LET), LET Support: 540-568-5312, letsupport@jmu.edu