Welcome to UAL Short Courses

4.1. The Basics

My Status and Settings: This feature allows you to react to the lesson by changing your status or give a reaction. You can change your status to ‘Available’ or ‘Away’. You can quickly ‘agree’ or ‘disagree’,  or let your tutor know you’re ‘happy’ or ‘confused’. 

This is a useful way to briefly show your tutor how you’re feeling.

Your tutor will give more guidance on how best to use these features in the classroom.

Microphone Toggle On/Off: Press the microphone button to unmute or mute yourself. When you first login you may want to test this is working, and then we recommend keeping your microphone on mute until needed, to avoid any feedback or background noise.

Camera Toggle On/Off: Press the camera button to switch your computer’s camera on or off. Your tutor will guide you on when might be a good time to have your camera on such as during introductions. You may find it helps a slower internet connection to turn cameras off at certain points.

Raise Hand: Your tutor will let you know how best to interact with these tools during lessons. The raise hand button will allow you to notify your tutor if you have a question that requires answering.

Open Collaborate Panel: This will open the collaborate panel allowing you to access the chat box and classroom settings.