General information for hosts

IHETS Interactive Meeting is a Web-conferencing system with robust tools for real-time communication and collaboration, including two-way video and audio, text chat, application sharing, electronic whiteboard, annotated PowerPoint presentations, polling, and quizzing. It is built using one Meeting, of five products in Adobe's Breeze suite.

Hosts are typically those faculty and instructional staff at IHETS member institutions teaching an academic (for-credit) course. They may also be meeting conveners or faculty, staff, and administrators using the system for collaborating with colleagues and conducting meetings with those from across the state or around the nation.

Documentation, training and reference material, and self-testing

Note: All documents are in Adobe's portable document format (PDF) except where noted.

• Installing and Configuring IHETS Interactive
• Quick Start Guide for Hosts
• Quick Start Guide for Hosts: Share Pod
• Quick Start Guide for Hosts: Camera & Voice, Attendee List, and Chat Pod
• Host Menubar Quick Reference Guide
• Workflow and Checklist for Hosts
• Host Guide to IHETS Interactive Recordings
• Host Manual for IHETS Interactive
• Best practices for using IHETS Interactive audio (requires Macromedia Flash; 3:35)
• IHETS Interactive video demo (requires Macromedia Flash; 5:05)

Host perspectives

This is what two Ball State University (BSU) faculty members said about their experiences using IHETS Interactive (these short clips were recorded during the fall 2006 semester):

• Dr. Jim Flowers (1:32). Professor and director of online education for BSU's Department of Technology, Flowers has been actively engaged in testing IHETS Interactive as it was being tested and fully developed. He taught two courses—Technology Use & Assessment and the History & Philosophy of Technology—noting, "[IHETS Interactive] is a very powerful tool...that can be used in so many ways that extend beyond the classroom."

• Professor George Elvin (1:37). An associate professor in BSU's College of Architecture & Planning, Elvin used IHETS Interactive to teach a 300-level architecture course pairing his students with those at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. "The students completed assignments, shared files, and discussed their drawings directly from their laptops, " he reported.
  
  
• Ken Sauer (1:22). ICHE’s associate commissioner for research and academic affairs discusses using IHETS Interactive to deliver training on the Course Applicability System (CAS).