You can contribute a text
message to the others.
1.
Type your message in the
the textfield at the bottom right.
2.
Text is automatically
wrapped in the textfield. If you want a forced line feed use Ctrl-Return.
3.
To submit the message,
click on the envelope icon at the right of the text field or press Return.
If your contribution refers
to another message, e.g. you answer a question that has been raised in a
previous message, you can set a reference marker. A reference is visualized as
a line with an arrowhead pointing to the message you refer to.
1.
Double-click (left mouse
button) on the message, you want to refer to. (Now you should see a blue line
with an arrow pointing from the text field to the message you selected.)
2.
Enter your message in
the text field.
3.
Submit the message by
clicking the envelope icon or pressing Return.
You can also use your
keyboard to refer to messages.
1.
Press Crtl-Space. (Now
you see a popup containing all messages, newest contributions first.)
2.
Select the message you
want to refer to and press Return. (Now you see a blue line with an arrow
pointing from the text field to the message you selected.)
3.
Enter your message in
the text field.
4.
Submit the message by
pressing Return.
Note: If you refer to a
message, that in turn has references itself, these will be visible, too.
To be precise, you can set
the reference before, while or after you wrote your message in the textfield,
but you have to do this before submission.
In the list of messages you
can see whether a message has a reference. Messeages with references start with
a small arrow symbol. To see what a message refers to, click on the message.
By default, the newest
message is selected and its references are visible.
Instead of refering to a
whole message, you may also refer to just a part of a message, e.g. one word or
a phrase.
1.
Select the part you want
to refer to. (Now you see a blue line with an arrow pointing from the text
field to the part of the message you selected.)
2.
Enter your message in
the text field.
3.
Submit by clicking on
the envelope icon or pressing Return.
You can set a reference to
the shared whiteboard (in the left part of the application window).
1.
Click on the Reference
Button in the whiteboard menue
2.
Mark a rectangle with
the mouse. (Now you see a blue line with an arrow pointing from the text field
to the selection in the material.)
3.
Enter your message in
the text field.
4.
Submit the message by
clicking the envelope icon or pressing Return.
You can remove the
reference you set.
1. Press Esc. (Note that the focus
needs to be in the textfield.)
or
2. Set a new reference.
Note: You can only remove
references for your current message, not for previous messages.
It is possible to add more
than one reference to your contribution. For example, you can refer to a
question in a previous message and point to the whiteboard or you can point to
a couple of messages to sum up these messages.
1.
Press and hold Ctrl.
2.
Set all references (to
messages and/or the whiteboard).
3.
Release Ctrl.
4.
Enter your message in
the text field.
5.
Submit the message by
clicking the envelope icon or pressing Return.
You can add a screenshot to
the shared whiteboard.
1.
Adjust the windows, so
both the icon with the camera (on top of the material window) and the
application you want to take a screenshot of are visible on the screen.
2.
Click on the icon with
the camera.
3.
Select the part of the
screen you want to add to the whiteboard.
4.
Click on the whiteboard
to add the screenshot
This this is a persistant
chatroom, you can read messages that were contributed while you were offline.
Click on the icon with the
two arrows (above the messages) to read previous contributions. The number
behind “Chat:” (above the messages) tells you how many previous contributions
exist.
By default you see the
messages in the order they were contributed. This is also called a
"listview". You can also view the messages separated into threads
("treeview").
1.
Click on the icon with
four horizontal lines (above the messages) to switch to the treeview.
2.
Make contributions of
the thread visible by clicking on the plus-sign. To hide a thread, click on the minus-sign.
To switch back to the
listview, click on the icon with the clock.