Link: http://my.uen.org

UEN has made a great resource available to all Utah teachers, and all they need to access it is a premium MyUEN account. You have a premium account if you have validated your school email address with UEN!

Wimba is a new online classroom and meeting environment that will allow you to have a meeting with anyone, anytime, anywhere. All they need to know is how to access your MyUEN public page. All you need to do to get it ready to go is to follow a few easy steps. Here you can learn more about Wimba in Utah.

UEN has also put together instructions on how to get ready to use Wimba.

To learn how to access your new Wimba Classroom, click the Read More! link below:

Follow up:

First of all, you need to log into your MyUEN Personal Page. If you are in the SEDC region of schools and have forgotten your MyUEN access information, email me with your first and last name and what school you are at and I will look it up for you.

You already have access to your Wimba Room Management page if you have the Services/Tools portlet on your Personal Page. You may have to scroll a bit, but just look for the Wimba link in the same place as the links for your CACTUS info and Adobe PDF creator links are:

Now, you should add the Wimba Classroom portlet to your personal page. This will give you a little more information about Wimba. To do this, click on the "Add Page Content" link at the top right of the page:

Once that window opens up, click the triangle next to Wimba to open up the options, and then click Add for Wimba Classroom:

The portlet will be added to the bottom of your Personal Page. Feel free to drag the window to any new position on your Personal Page and drop it. Your page will be redesigned just like that!

We need to add this portlet to your Public Page. This will allow anyone to enter your Wimba Classroom for meetings, and will give access to the Wimba Setup Wizard that will walk your participants (and you) through a one-time setup process to enable the best experience possible with Wimba. Follow the Edit my Public Page link as shown in the above picture.

You should now see Editing Public Page at the top of the window. We need to add the Wimba Classroom portlet on this page as well. To do this, click on the Add Page Content link on the top right of the page:

Again, click the triangle next to Wimba to show the Wimba Classroom Add button. Please, if you will, click that Add button!

Almost home! If you want, reorder the Wimba Classroom portlet window by dragging it into a new position and then dropping it. When you are in the Editing Public Page mode, the portlet is identical to your Personal Page portlet:

However... when people visit your public page or when you click the link to preview your public page...

...they will be able to enter a name for the meeting (no spaces!) and enter your Wimba Classroom and can always access the Wimba Setup Wizard if they have not used Wimba on their computer before:

How do you get your classroom all set up and ready to go? You can enter your Wimba Classroom from your Personal Page or while editing your Public Page and experiment there. For a full explanation, you will need to set up a training for your school. Email me if you are in the SEDC region and we can get a training set up for your school!