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Welcome to the Tablet Teaching Resource!

Preparing your tablet for teaching

Before you begin you need to connect the tablet to the internet and download the Classroom Presenter 3 (CP3) software, and practice uploading your files into CP3

Step 1: Download CP3

1. First, connect the 'blue chord' (internet) in your office to the Tablet;

2. Open a browser and navigate to: http://classroompresenter.cs.washington.edu/

3. Download the latest version of CP3 (currently 3.1)
4. Install as instructed

Step 2: In CP3

1. Open the CP3 application

2. In the first window, check the 'Instructor' in the 'Stand-alone' mode; and, 'Enable dual-monitor mode' and click 'Start a new presentation'. This screen is checking whether you want to run CP3 in its fully functional mode which is where every student in the theatre would have a laptop and they and you would be connected to the same network. The students are then able to submit elements (diagrams, drawings, responses) from their laptops to yours during the lecture. Obviously this sounds great, but it is impractical at the moment, since few of our students are bringing laptops to class (though many of them own them).

3. From the 'File' menu click 'Open Deck' (a 'deck' is what CP3 calls a set of presentation slides).
4. Navigate to your PPT slides and Open.

In the lecture theatre

You should practice this in your office before your first lecture. This can be achieved by connecting a standard monitor VGA cable from your office monitor to the tablet as if it were the projector/lectern cable. Note, many of the changes below need only be done once (the first time! so arrive a little early), after this, the settings should be remembered by the Tablet.

Step 1: Connect your laptop

• Find the VGA (laptop connector) cable at the lectern and attach to the back of your tablet;

Step 2: Extend the desktop

• We want the students just to see the 'slide' part, not the whole screen. The former is called 'extended' mode, the

latter is called 'clone' mode. To get the extended mode:

1. Locate the Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile task-bar icon (near the time at the very bottom of the screen on the right

hand side -- it looks like a blue parallelogram with a snow-flakes in the middle);

1. Click this, and with the monitor cable attached (important), choose

successive menus:

• Graphics Options > Output to > Extended Desktop > Notebook + Monitor

Step 3: Check the resolution of both screens

• It is possible that the resolution of the notebook, and/or the projector screen looks bad, to fix this:
  1. Go back to the Graphics Card icon (from 2/ above);
  2. Click 'Graphics Properties ...'.
  3. Choose 'Display Settings' from the LHS and find a Screen Resolution that works
  4. Hit 'Apply' when you are done (for each screen).

After the lecture

Unless you have video recording of your lectures, many students will want to see the 'scribbles' you made during lectures appear on Blackboard.

Step 1: In CP3

1. Choose: File > Export as HTML, Click 'Save'.

Step 2: In My Computer

1. Locate the HTML file you just made (where you saved it) -- it will have a folder associated with it. This folder has a set of picture files, one per slide for your scribbled on presentation.

2. Click on the HTML file once, and then CTRL+Click on the folder to make them both active;

3. Right-click on the selected files and choose Send To > Compressed (zipped) folder ... This will create one file for upload to Blackboard.

Step 3: In Blackboard

1. Choose the file manager
2. Upload the file
3. Unzip it
4. Navigate in Build mode to where you want the slides to be (e.g. in an area called "Lectures") use the 'Add file' feature to add the HTML file (only) (the folder of pics will be found automatically by this file.)

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