Telephone

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:

1. Under Activities, select Telephone.
2. Set the activity to your needs in Options for this activity..., add instructions and/or add an attachment.
3. Once all students are ready click Start activity .
   Result: The dialog box below opens up on the student's screen.
   
4. 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.
5. Click Stop activity  when the activity is over.