The directions below demonstrate how to schedule and launch a Virtual Classroom Bongo session for your students in D2L.
To watch a recorded webinar on using Virtual Classroom, visit this site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjFULR9KNvA.
To attend a live online webinar, visit the Training Calendar above to register for a Virtual Classroom session.
Setting up a meeting:
1. Click on Virtual Classroom in the header of your D2L course home screen.
2. Click on the Plus sign located in the lower right corner of the screen.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Plus.png)
3. This brings up a new window where you will enter your meeting information.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Schedule-Meeting-1-3.png)
4. You can select “Repeat weekly for” in order to create multiple meetings for the semester
5. Further down in that window you have other options to select such as
- Publish recorded meeting
- Makes meeting recordings visible in the Virtual Classroom.
- Allow external participants
- Creates a link you can share with those outside the class.
- Invite entire class
- Will allow all students to see the meeting in the Virtual Classroom.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Schedule-Meeting-2-2.png)
6. Select “SAVE”. Your scheduled meetings will now appear under “Active Meetings”.
Starting a Scheduled Meeting
1. Find the meeting in the “Active Meetings” of the Virtual Classroom.
2. Click on the three dots under Actions and select “Launch”.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Launch.png)
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Launch-1.png)
3. On the next screen select “JOIN”.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Join.png)
4. Select how you want to join the audio.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Audio1.png)
5. Make sure to allow BONGO to use your microphone.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Audio2.png)
6. Here is what the active meeting screen will look like.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Active-Meeting-1024x472.png)
Sharing Your Webcam
1. At the bottom of the active meeting screen, click on to share webcam.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/webcam1.png)
2. Allow BONGO to use your camera.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Webcam2.png)
3. Select the camera and click “Start Sharing”.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Webcam3.png)
Sharing Your Screen
1. At the bottom of the active meeting screen, click the small screen icon to share your screen.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Share-Screen-1.png)
2. Next, choose what you want to share.
- Entire Screen
- Your full desktop
- Window
- A program such as Word or PowerPoint
- Web Browser Tab
- An open browser tab (Chrome in the example below)
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Sharescreen-2.png)
3. To stop sharing click on the screen button.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Sharescreen-3.png)
Participant List and Chat Tool
1. Access the participants by selecting the Participants tab.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Participant-1.png)
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Participant-2.png)
2. Access the chat tool by selecting this tab.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Chat-2.png)
Adjusting Settings and Ending a Meeting
1. Click on the three dots located in the top right corner of the meeting screen.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Settings-1.png)
2. Several options are available as shown below.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Settings-2.png)
3. Click on “Settings” to adjust items such as….
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Settings-3.png)
OR
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/Settings-4.png)
4. Click the End Meeting icon to end the class session for everyone.
![](https://tl.ssc.edu/public/2021/08/End-Meeting.png)