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Help: VMT Tutorials

In this page you can find a series of animated tutorials demonstrating how to operate the basic functions of the VMT environment.
(If you need Flash you can download it from Macromedia)

How to Login and Use the VMT Lobby
Quick overview on how to login to the VMT lobby and what its main components are: the user information panel, the chat tool, and the room tabs. Understand the functions of the different lobby components, how to enter rooms and how to use the "Sandbox" room to explore the VMT environment.

Special VMT Chat Features
Learn how to use the VMT chat tool including how to load old messages, how to turn message colors off, and how to change otehr visual aspects of the chat.

Understanding the Room Tabs
Learn how to use the different tabs on the lobby: Welcome, My Rooms, Open Rooms, and Limited Access. Explore how to locate and view the math problems available, how to locate the room that you want to use.

Adding Teammates and Creating Rooms
Learn how to add users who are online into your list of teammates. Learn how to create a new room for a group to work on a particular math problem. Understand the basics of "Open," "Limited Access," and "Private" rooms.

The shared whiteboard
Learn how to used basic drawing tools available in the shared whiteboard of all VMT chat rooms.

Making references from a chat message to another
Learn how to link your chat messages to other messages so that your team members can understand what you are talking about more easily. Two additional tutorial movies explain how to make references to a specific part of a message and how to reference multiple messages at the same time.

Making references from a chat message to the whiteboard
Learn how to connect your chat messages to an area of the whiteboard so that your team members can better understand the part of the whiteboard that you are refering to. Additional tutorial movies show you how to make a reference to multiple areas of the whitebaord and how to combine references to messages and to the whiteboard.