Overview

Welcome to lesson 10 of 13 in the Educator's Course. In this lesson you'll learn how teachers and trainers can share their computer screen with students using the Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant.

Lesson objectives

After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

• Correctly report the steps to obtain the Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant and its supporting documentation.
• Correctly explain the steps a teacher follows to share their screen using the Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant.
• Correctly state the methods teachers have to restrict access to their screen when using the Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant.
• Correctly state the steps students using SuperNova follow to connect to and view the teacher’s shared screen.

This lesson should take no more than fifteen minutes to complete.

This lesson applies to:

• SuperNova Magnifier.
• SuperNova Magnifier & Speech.
• SuperNova Magnifier & ScreenReader.

Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant

The Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant works in conjunction with SuperNova to enable students to connect to and view a secondary computer screen such as a teacher's smartboard or interactive whiteboard.

This enables students to view a presentation in a way they find accessible. Students can:

• Magnify the presentation.
• Apply a colour scheme to the presentation.
• Copy images from the presentation.
• And sit anywhere in the classroom to view the presentation without obstacles blocking the line of sight.

This is achievable through a secure Internet relay server or, where students and presenters are sharing the same network, through virtual network computing (VNC).

However, as most educational setups have students and presenters on different networks, this lesson focuses solely on the Internet relay server method.

Obtaining the Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant

We recommend teachers and support staff wishing to use the Whiteboard Assistant contact their IT Team for assistance. The IT Administrator will be able to obtain the program by visiting https://yourdolphin.com/whiteboard-assistant.

The program is free-of-charge and includes guides for IT administrators, teachers, and student support staff. The guides help you get up and running and answer any questions you may have about the process.

How teachers use Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant

Remember:

• Teachers control who has access to the presentation.
• Teachers control what students can view, for example, a specific application window or the full screen.
• Teachers control how long students can view the presentation.
  
  

How Students Connect To The Teacher's Presentation

Remember:

• Students view the presentation using the magnification and colours that make following the presentation a comfortable experience.
• Students can copy and save images of important parts of a presentation, for example, a slide showing questions to answer for homework.
• Students can convert copied images to text and ask questions about the image using AI technology.

In fact, the options available to the student mirror the options available when using a camera (see previous lesson). This ensures consistency with a simple learning curve for students.

Tip: Students may find it helpful to follow the movement of the teacher’s mouse pointer on their screen. To do this, students select the "Show Mouse" checkbox in the SuperNova Whiteboard Device Settings.

Before drawing this lesson to a close, it is worth mentioning the "Lock image" option, which was documented in the previous lesson. This option comes to the forefront when viewing a presentation. Here, students can pause the current slide for closer inspection.

However, students must also be aware that when they do unfreeze the screen, the image will change to show the current output on the teacher’s screen. Thus, in some cases, students may find it more beneficial to take a copy of the screen they want to inspect in more detail for later review rather than pausing the current output.

Summary

This lesson introduced the Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant. This free-to-use application enables teachers to share their presentation with Students who use SuperNova. This enables students to view the presentation using the magnification and colours they prefer.

If you would like to learn more about the benefits students can gain from using SuperNova in a classroom, visit SuperNova Education Kit.

To download and review the Whiteboard Assistant Guides, select: Whiteboard Assistant Guides Zip Package.

In the next lesson you will be discovering the purpose, benefits, and role the EasyReader App can play in an educational environment.

Quiz

Below are three sample quiz questions based on this lesson. Please spend no more than five minutes considering the answers to these questions.

1. The Dolphin Whiteboard Assistant includes the ability for teachers to set the sharing of their screen to a limited time. Is this statement true?
2. Students who connect to a teacher's presentation can also control the presentation. Is this statement true?
   
3. Students can copy the presenter's screen, such as a slide showing homework tasks, using SuperNova. Is this statement true? 

End of lesson

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