Student Online Sessions
Students can access virtual tutoring sessions from their Dashboard.
- Sign in.
- The next upcoming session appears on the left.
- Click Join Now.
The Littera Virtual Classroom
The Waiting Room
- From the individual waiting room, grant access to your Camera and Microphone. Click Next.
- Choose the specific devices to use for the session.
- Click I'm Ready.
- At the session start time, the student is brought into the virtual classroom.
Use the Whiteboard
- The classroom opens. Your tutor's video is in the top right. Student video(s) appear below.
- The Control Bar appears at the bottom of your screen. You can:
- Chat: Click to open a text chat between you and the student(s) in the session.
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Share Screen: Choose to share your entire browser, a specific tab, or your screen. Currently, screen sharing is not supported on iPads or mobile devices.
- To share audio, ensure you choose to share your browser tab and check the Share audio box at the bottom.
Note: You aren't able to interact/control your screen share on the whiteboard, but you can annotate on top.
- To share audio, ensure you choose to share your browser tab and check the Share audio box at the bottom.
- Microphone: Click to mute/unmute.
- Camera: Turn your camera off/on.
- Speaker: Turn classroom audio on/off.
- You can click on Tools or right-click on the whiteboard to access the Tool Wheel. Each tool can be used on the whiteboard or on top of screen shares and uploads. Hover over a tool to see additional options:
- Pen: Annotate the screen in different colors.
- Laser: A laser pointer to highlight areas of the whiteboard
- Shape: Add shapes to the screen in different colors
- Line: Add lines in different colors to underline areas of the whiteboard
- Text: Add a text box. There are 4 different height options. The text box resizes after text has been entered.
- Select: Select and move or edit an object on the whiteboard.
- Eraser: Erase specific objects from the whiteboard.
- Clear: Clear the entire whiteboard.
Lessonspace
The Lobby
- From the individual virtual lobby, grant access to your Camera and Microphone.
- Choose the specific devices to use for the session.
- Click Join.
- At the session start time, the student is brought into the virtual classroom.
Use the Whiteboard
- The top toolbar contains all the tools you'll need:
- Color Picker
- Select Tool
- Move Canvas
- Draw/Pen Tool
- Highlighter
- Erase Tool
- Shapes & Lines
- Add Text
- Equation Tool
- Upload File
- Take video snapshot
- Change Whiteboard Background
- Undo
- Redo
- Whiteboard Zoom
- Some settings and more are in the bottom right, including:
- Settings: Change or test your devices, turn on advanced noise cancellation, blur your background, and troubleshoot technology issues
- Share Screen: Share either a specific browser tab, window, or your entire computer screen
- Mute Microphone
- Stop Video
- Emojis
- Chat: Choose to send a chat to the entire class or just to your tutor
At the end of each session, students are asked to rate the session overall