Background
The telephone activity allows students to make phone calls to each other's computers (audio only).
Procedure
Proceed as follows to create a Telephone activity:
Under Activities, select Telephone.
Set the activity to your needs in Options for this activity..., add instructions and/or add an attachment.
Once all students are ready click Start activity
.
Result: The dialog box below opens up on the student's screen.
Students need to click Phone
to call one of their classmates who then has to click Answer phone
.
As soon as one of them clicks Hang up
, the call is ended.
Once in a call, students appear in the caller - callee list.Select Monitor
to listen in on a call.
Select Intercom
to talk to a pair.
Select Microphone to talk to all students at once.
Click Stop activity
when the activity is over.