What is Wimba Pronto?

Wimba Pronto is an instant messaging program that allows instructors and students to instantly chat with each other using text, audio, or video. Students and instructors can also share applications on their desktops with each other.

Registration and Installation

 Please to go to one of your courses in Blackboard to get your Pronto.
 
 You can find "Wimba Pronto" under "Course Tools".

Pronto Environment

  Classmates Tab:  Find all the Wimba users who are in your classes (p.5)

Contact Tab: Add the people you want to keep in touch with after the class ends (p.5)

Status Bar:   Show your availability – change your status


Modifying Your Profile

a.    Go “preferences” – “profile”
b.    Add your picture, email address, introduction, webpages


Text Chat

a. Type in text in the box

b. Use emoticons


Audio Call

a.    Click audio call button to make an audio call
b.    Press the Talk/Lock Button to speak (p.9)

Video Call

a.    Click video call button to make a video call
b.    Click broadcast video button: When the eye is open, your video is being transmitted. 
       (p.10)



AppShare (p.14)

a.    Click application share button
b.    Adjust the application sharing screen area frame to determine how much the screen is displayed
c.    Use the "AppShare host" to control which user’s screen is being shared
d.    Use the "Option" Menu to add text-based, voice-based, video-based chat or end application share.


Group Chat

a.    Click “Action”-“invite to group chat”-“new group chat”
b.    Other ways to start a new group chat (p.18)
c.    Delete someone from a group chat
d.    To invite a new user to an existing group, drag and drop the name of the user anywhere in the Group Chat window
e.    Please note:  
•  Pronto
video conference only works on one-to-one basis. That is, only one student can see you at a time.
•  Pronto allows for multiple users to have audio conference. The instructor and all the students should press “Talk”+"lock". If the instructor press “Talk”+"lock" but the students do not, the instructor cannot hear students’ voices, but students could still hear each other’s voices.

Queued Chat

Pronto- Queued Chat

Summary

Pronto is good for one-to-one communication. It is especially a good tool for online office hours, where you meet with individual students one by one. But when it comes to online lectures or online activities, Pronto might not be as great as Elluminate.

Resources

Wimba Pronto Tutorial by OIT at Montclair State University

A full version of Wimba Pronto User Guide is available at http://www.wimba.com/assets/resources/WP_21_User_Guide.pdf.

 
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