Tutorials

At the Overview page of the provider you can determine your currently installed version of Flash Player. There you can also find a link to the download center where you can download the latest version of Flash Player for your operating system.

There are two ways to enter the virtual classroom with Internet Explorer 10 in a Windows 8 system.

You can start the Internet Explorer either in the desktop mode by clicking on the corresponding tile and subsequently open the Internet Explorer. Or you can open the Internet Explorer in the tile mode where you can select the setting "view on the desktop" under "settings" (symbol of a wrench) after entering the desired room.

Zusätzlich muss im Internet Explorer 10 die Kompatibilitätsansicht eingeschaltet werden. Klicken Sie dazu auf das Symbol des zerissenen Dokumentes in der Adresszeile.

Note: Der Kompatibilitätsmodus muss auch im Internet Explorer 10 unter Windows 7 aktiviert werden.

On the website of Adobe you will find another description of the procedure.

At the Overview page of the provider you can determine your currently installed version of Flash Player. There you can also find a link to the download center where you can download the latest version of Flash Player for your operating system.

There are some problems with the Adobe Flash Player in Mac OS X that also concern the virtual classroom.

When you enter the virtual classroom, you will be asked for your permission using camera and microphone (Flash). But the buttons do not react on your mouse clicks with the current Flash Version.

Hiding this note: Click the tab key until the close button is marked and press 'enter'. Now you can participate in the webinar, but you can't unlock your camera and you can not speak.

Please follow these steps to enable the virtual classroom to connect with your camera & microphone:

Search in the system settings for "Flash Player" and select the folder.

In the tab "camera and microphone" click "settings for camera and microphone for website ..."

This will open a window. In the lower left corner, click the plus sign to add a website that is enabled to have access to your camera and microphone.

In the line "website domain" enter api.edudip.com and select below the field "Allow". From then on you can use your camera and microphone in the virtual classroom.

At the Overview page of the provider you can determine your currently installed version of Flash Player. There you can also find a link to the download center where you can download the latest version of Flash Player for your operating system.

For Linux users: the Flash player from Adobe still has some issues in Linux that affect the virtual classroom.

To use the virtual classroom with Linux some manual adjustments in the settings are required. These changes have to be made on the website of Macromedia.

After entering the website you see the Website Privacy Settings. Select api.edudip.com in the list of websites and then click "always allow". You should then be able to participate in the webinars on edudip.com.

If the site api.edudip.com does not appear in your list, please open this demo room: http://www.edudip.com/demo . Thereafter, the site appears in the list of the Website Privacy Settings and you can change the settings as described above.

By clicking the "Participate" button in the detail view of a webinar, you can easily apply for a free webinar. If you want to register for a webinar for purchase, please use the "Book" button.

If the webinar is offered on several dates, please select the required date on the list at the left side and simply book it at this place.

If you are not a member of edudip yet, please use the following registration form to join edudip for free. Members can directly log in with this form.

For fee-based webinars, your billing address and payment information must be provided in the following step. Booking will be complete after you have checked your data in the summary. You can change your payment information in your profile "settings" at any time.

As soon as your booking has been confirmed by the presenter, you can join the virtual classroom by clicking the 'Enter' button on the detailed view of the webinar.

We recommend viewing our System Check before conducting a webinar.

Adobe Flash Player has to be enabled for your microphone and camera in order to enter the virtual classroom. Please check the appropriate field.

You will find yourself in the lobby prior to the start of a webinar. You can take the opportunity to test your camera and microphone. You can also contact other members via the chat utility.

All the participants are entered into the virtual classroom when the presenter begins the webinar. Please do not forget to connect your headset so you can listen to the presenter.

Questions you may have can be answered by using the chat function or the hand signal. Would you like to leave the webinar for a short time? - No problem! You can show your absence with the 'coffee cup'.

The presenter may give you the floor once he has acknowledged your question. The other participants are then also able to hear and see you if you have enabled your camera.

As soon as an attended webinar is finished, you'll find in the navigation the little flag with a number ("1" or bigger, if there are more ratings to do or you got an evaluation for you own course). Click the symbol to view the details.

Click the attended webinar to go to the event page and directly to the evaluation sheet. You can give 1 to 6 stars and write a detailed comment for the teacher. Just click the button "Evaluate" to post your rating.

After pushing the evaluation button, your rating is saved and shown on the event page and in the teacher's Academy.

With our RSS feeds you remain up to date without having to visit our site actively.

You only need a RSS reader to subscribe to these feeds and read them.

More information about RSS feeds...

You can subscribe to both the feed of all future webinars as well as a feed for a specific category.

In the marketplace overview you find a small RSS icon next to each category in the category list. When you click on it, in most cases your RSS-Reader opens (if you have already installed one) and shows you the selected feed.

In addition to the feed of upcoming webinars and the feeds to each category you have the possibility to subscribe to the feed of a particular trainer.

Please visit the academy page or profile of the trainer of your choice and click again on the little gray RSS icon, which is located in the box "Next seminars".

Some browsers already have an RSS reader integrated:

• Firefox
• Opera
• Internet Explorer (ab Version 7)
• Google Chrome

You can also use the following readers:

• FeedReader (Windows)
• Vienna (Mac)
• Pulp (iPad)
• Reeder (iPhone; requires Google account)
• Google Reader (Online service)
• Feedly.com (Online service)

List other RSS readers...

Click on the 'New Webinar' button to set up your own webinar. This takes you to the event manager.

You can enter information about your planned webinar in the event manager.

Your webinar is created when you first click 'Save'. You can then make further changes afterwards.

'Further information' provides an area where you can define the number of participants, name a co-presenter, among other things.

You can set your participant confirmations as automatic or manual. A participation list is also available to select confirmations.

An option is also available should you want to record your webinar, and you can specify a price for which you would like to sell the recording.

With edudip, you can split your webinar over several days. For example, if you'd like to hold a webinar over several days, simply click on the 'Add recurrent event' and enter the dates over which you would like to hold your webinar.

If you want to repeat a webinar at any other time, then click on "Repetition date / add event series". After entering and saving the date of the repetition, you have now opened a new series for new participants.

In the 'Presentations' menu item you can upload files that you wish to present in your webinar. You can also make them available for your participants to download. Additionally, you can use stored files from other webinars by checking the 'Active’ field on the corresponding line.

Currently supported formats are Microsoft Office documents (such as PowerPoint, Excel, Word), OpenOffice documents (such as Impress, Calc, Draw, Writer), Adobe PDF, images and graphics. Please note that animations in your presentation currently can not be displayed but are shown as fixed images. We will update this as soon as possible.

If you no longer intend to use an uploaded file, it can be easily removed by pressing the 'Delete' cross at the end of the relevant line.

In the menu item 'Invite', you can invite potential participants to your webinar. Contacts from facebook and Microsoft Outlook can be manually invited or you can use the CSV import. You can even find participants of your past webinars on "Former Members". To invite them, just select the past event and the fitting date.

Once you have listed your potential participants, you can create your individual invitation e-mail or use the standard text.

Your participants will receive an email or will be informed on their facebook wall about your webinar. A link takes the interested persons to the detail view of your webinar where they can apply directly for your webinar.

To invite contacts that do not have to register on edudip, edudip.pro members can send a direct link to the participants that leads directly in the virtual classroom. This link also works in the short term for participants who have not previously registered for the event. You can find this link on the details page of your webinar.

This link is valid for both webinars for free and webinars for purchase. Please note that the direct room link of a webinar for purchase takes the invited contact into the virtual classroom for free. He will neither pay the participation fee nor benefit of the other platform services as the reminder.

To push recommendations, we give you a landing page for every event, so you have a link that you can spread on different social networks like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Additionally, we offer a code that you can embed on your own website. With this code, you integrate a box that shows an links your next online courses on edudip.

Such kind of embedding is also possible on facebook. Get the details in our "Integrating your webinars on facebook" tutorial.

Your scheduled webinars are shown on your personal home page. Here, you can edit them using the event manager or access the detail view of your webinar.

Within the detailed view of your webinar, you can access the virtual classroom by clickin the 'Enter' button.

The virtual classroom has separate sections for the presenter, the whiteboard, the chat area, and for the participants.

You are displayed in the upper right corner as the presenter, along with the co-presenter you specified. Audio is enabled by clicking the 'Microphone' button, and is indicated by the green audio level which indicates the level of sound being transmitted.

You have the option of making yourself visible to the participants by clicking the 'Camera' button, otherwise your profile image will be displayed.

Your participants are shown in the lower part of the virtual classroom with their individual profile images. Drag your mouse over a participant's image to display their name and to have other functions available.

By clicking the 'ON' button, you can give a certain participant the floor. By using the 'Crown', you can even convert a participant into your co-presenter. The 'X' button serves to throw out participants if needed.
Attention: If you remove a participant from the room he/she can never enter this virtual classroom again!

You have two options to activate a co-presenter: You can use the event manager in 'Advanced Options' to appoint a co-presenter directly. Your co-presenter can enter the virtual classroom before the webinar starts and has the rights of a presenter from the start.

As another option, you can appoint a co-presenter spontaneously while you hold the webinar. Simply drag the mouse over the participant's image under the whiteboard and click the 'Crown'. Your new co-presenter will appear in the upper right corner next to you.

To embed YouTube videos in your online course, just push the "YouTube" button in the upper right corner in the virtual classroom.

This will open the "YouTube Video Player Setup" window with a free field for the link of the YouTube video that you want to show your participants. Insert the Youtube link or the video ID. The video ID consists of the last chars in the video link after the equal sign.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1PM8oW1zI

You can load the video now.

Hint: If you want to use selfmade videos in your webinar but you do not want to offer it on YouTube for the public, you can upload the video on YouTube and set it as "not listed".

Now you get the second view. Here you can see the title, a preview image and the description of the video. On the progress bar, you can see if the video has loaded completely. As soon as the bar is fully green, all participants are ready and the video can be started for every participant without any loading problems. Only the moderator can start the video by clicking the "Video Start" button.

Push the "Finish"-Button to go back to the first view of the YouTube video player setup. Now you can insert another video link again.

After clicking on the button "Start video" the video is started for all participants and the moderators on the whiteboard. Moderators can see the timeline on which they can spool the video, they have all control and decide when the video shall pause, be muted, be enlarged and when it shall play again. They can even set the resolution. Participant can only watch what is happening.

Under the video is the option to synchronize the video. Short delays can occur depending on the Internet connection and computer environment. The synchronization takes all participants to the same point of the video to make sure that you all discuss the same moment. This feature is also available for your participants so they can synchronize with the moderator autonomously.

You can conduct pollings during your online course. Just push the "Poll" button in the upper right corner of the whiteboard in the virtual classroom.

Now a window "Polling" appears. Click "Create new polling".

Another window will open. Here you can enter the title of the poll, the question and the answers. You have the option to allow your participants multiple answers. Now you can save the poll, delete or start it.

To start the polling, agree by clicking 'yes'. Now, your participants see a box with your poll and the answers to select. You can stop the polling when enough participants have answered. Now, you can start the polling again or you can present the results.

Every event page contains a participant list with the registered users. Pro members can download the list as a CSV file. This file will be also available when there aren't any registration, if you had only participants via the direct link into the virtual classroom.

The CSV file lists all participants in the virtual classroom, also the ones who came per direct room link. You will see the difference to registered participants in the column "last name" where the full name appears whereas the column "first name" is empty.

For every participant, the list offers some information about the time when the room has been entered and the total duration of attending without the breaks in which the room has been left. If these columns are empty, the registered participant did not attend the course.

This is how you get information about your participants that makes it easier to organize a follow up, because now you can contact only the specific participants who have really attended.

Screen sharing with Flash

Click on the button for the screen sharing. Afterwards you can select the area that you want to share. You have the options "Desktop", "Window" and "Application" to select. Then you just need to click on the button "Transfer" and the screen sharing starts.

Screen sharing with ManyCam

The screen sharing with ManyCam is an alternative to the screen sharing with Flash. You need to download the software and start the program first.

You can change the resolution of the screen sharing. After opening ManyCam you will find the resolution settings in the category 'Sources' . Three different resolutions are available: 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x960. Now you can open your virtual classroom.

Note: Make sure that you first start ManyCam before you share your screen in the webinar. Hint: Put this application into your startup list - data are NOT transferred beyond your webinar.

Download the software:

• Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/2003
• MacOS X 10.5 or higher

It’s super easy to integrate your webinary into your facebook fanpage. Edit your webinar on edudip and click the "market" menu item. You can then integrate your webinar onto facebook, or your own personal website. Simply click "Install app".

Then, log onto facebook, select your fanpage, and 'Add Page Tab' – all done!

Now there is a 'Webinars' menu item added to your fanpage where you'll find your webinars from edudip. Participants are now able to attend your webinars without leaving your facebook fanpage. Pretty cool isn't it?

Note: For paid webinars, participants will still be linked to your event page on edudip for payment arrangements.

To design your Academy, just click on your Academy page in the right upper corner "Edit design settings".

You can specifiy a title for your Academy by typing some text in the field "Academy Title". After saving, the name appears left-aligned at the top of your Academy.

Hint: You can keep this field empty and save some text for your Academy title in your background image. Then you can even design the text, e.g. with your favourite font.

Under the umbrella term "Structure" you can edit the colors of the single page panels. You can change the background color of the whole page and the Academy. Additionally, you can set the color of the boxes in the Academy as well as the frames.

To change the color of an item, click on the color field. A window will appear and the current color will be shown in a white framed circle.

You can move the circle with your mouse to select the desired color. Next to the color field is a color bar with arrows at the right and the left side. If you move there arrow controllers, you can choose a color gamut (e.g. blue tones). Within the color area you select the color with the circle. Of course, you can also enter the color value (RGB, HSB or as hexadecimal code).

And the umbrella term "Text", you can set the colors for different text items. You can select different colors for headlines, links and the text within the boxes. How you select the colors is like in the fourth point.

In addition to the color settings, you have the possibility to save a background image on your academy. To do so, click on "Browse" and select an image, which is stored on your computer. The image size should be 990 pixels high in order to fill in the complete background. Small images are going to be centered in on the top of your academy, and images that are more than 990 pixels high are only going to be shown partially.

At last, save your settings by clicking the "Save" button on the lower right.

For automated reading and processing of RSS feeds, the two tools RSS Graffiti and Twitterfeed.com are highly recommended:

The former is larger, but is limited to Facebook. Since it is easier to set up, we present Twitterfeed in more detail.

1. Visit www.twitterfeed.com and go to registration form
2. Fill out the registration form
3. Label the first feed, for example "My webinars on edudip"
4. Copy the link to your RSS feed by going to your own academy, make a right click on the RSS icon and select the menu item "copy target address" (sometimes called "Copy link")
5. Paste the link of your RSS feed in the form of Twitterfeed in the box "Blog URL or RSS Feed URL" and click "Continue to Step 2"
6. Click on the link "Advanced Settings" and choose "Every 24 hours" in the first drop-down menu of "Update Frequency" in order to maximize the advertising effect (otherwise on the first day all previously registered seminars on Facebook will be posted) and then click on "Continue to Step 2"
7. Now click on the link "Facebook" and subsequently authorize the app by clicking "Connect with Facebook" and follow the instructions
8. At the bottom of the page click "Create Service"
9. That's it! If you create new seminars, they are automatically linked to your Facebook profile within 24 hours. In the so-called "dashboard" of Twitterfeed you can also set up automatic posting on Twitter.

We wish you much success!