In Fall 2007, the University of South Florida (USF) moved from a hosted model of Elluminate to an installed model.

This means that USF now has Elluminate servers on campus. This increases the reliability and facilitates the management of the service.

Since Fall 2008, USF has an unlimited-seat license for Elluminate. This means that an unlimited number of USF faculty, students, and staff can be using Elluminate at one time under the license and faculty/moderators do not have to be concerned about whether they can get seats for their sessions.

This unlimited license has enabled the us to install the Blackboard Building Block for Elluminate so that USF faculty and staff can schedule Elluminate sessions from within Blackboard (myUSF - http://my.usf.edu) courses and organizations respectively whenever they want to.

We regularly upgrade and maintain Elluminate so that you can use all the latest features as soon as possible (usually 3 months after release). In Summer 2008, we upgraded from version 7.5 to version 8 of Elluminate and in Fall 2008, we upgraded to version 8.5 of Elluminate. Our most recent upgrade to version 9.1 was completed in June 2009 and we plan to move to version 9.5 (just released by Elluminate in July 2009), by the Fall 2009 semester if the release is found to be stable. To learn more about the new features available in version 9.1, visit: http://elluminate.blog.usf.edu/2009/06/16/elluminate-upgrade-to-version-91

The Elluminate system at USF is managed by the Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence (C²¹TE - http://www.c21te.usf.edu ).

We have prepared a few Web pages for you that will better explain the transition process.

Please visit the following:

1. In order to learn about the new process for requesting Virtual Classroom sessions, please visit: http://www.c21te.usf.edu/elluminate/process.htm
   
   
2. In order to faciliatate the use of Elluminate at USF, we will also offer users with some support resources. This is usually indicated next to the resource and when you visit these resources.
   To learn about the support resources, visit: http://www.c21te.usf.edu/elluminate/resources.htm
   

Contact email address:
Contact us at: elluminate@lists.acomp.usf.edu for any Elluminate issues, queries, and other information.

Thank you for using Elluminate. We hope that you enjoy the new, improved Elluminate system.

In order to learn about the process for requesting Virtual Classroom sessions, please visit: http://www.c21te.usf.edu/elluminate/process.htm

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