To access a webinar session:

To participate, go to www.forestrywebinars.net on the day of the webinar and following the instructions below:

PLEASE NOTE – In order to receive Continuing Education Credits for this webinar, you MUST successfully complete all steps below. Failure to complete a step will make you ineligible to receive any CEU credits.  Your computer must be configured in advance, read "First time webinar attendeeds section" below.

1. To find the webinar, click on Upcoming Webinars button at the top of the page. When you find this webinar, click on the webinar name and you will be directed to the webinar page.
2. To join the live webinar, click the orange join button at the top of the webinar page. If the webinar has been archived, you can take this webinar by clicking the orange view button at the top of the webinar page.
3. Completely fill out the registration form and click submit.
4. You will be presented with a short pre-survey to take before being directed to the webinar.
5. After completing the pre-survey you will be redirected to the Elluminate live manager "Join Session" page.
6. On the "Join Session" page select guest and enter your FULL name and email to login (no password is needed)
7. Click "Log In" to join the session. The webinar will then load on your computer (This may take a couple minutes to complete). Once you are in the session please follow the information on audio setup.

Note: If the webinar does not load on your computer and you are redirected to the sessions page repeat the steps above, but do not wait for the session to load automatically. click on "manually start the session"

If there are any presentation handouts from the speaker, the webinar software will prompt you to download and save them to your computer. Please make sure that you select to download and save these file(s).

To register for continuing education credit:

To receive continuing education credit for participating in the webinar you MUST:

1. Log in with full name and email address when logging into Elluminate live manager "Join Session" page.
2. At the end of the webinar, the webinar software will automatically redirect you to the satisfaction survey and a short quiz. You must complete this survey and quiz if you want to continue to the Continuing Education Credit form.
3. After taking the satisfaction survey, you will be directed to the Continuing Education Credit Form if educational credits are available for this webinar. To receive credits for this webinar, you MUST fill out this form and click submit.

If you do not complete these three steps above we cannot ensure that you will receive your continuing education credits because we will not be able to verify your participation to the organization that awards the credits. Certificates will be emailed to you within a few days of the webinar.

Please join the webinar 15 minutes early as we cannot take phone calls or help with technical issues once the webinar begins.
Hardware or software issues can be directed to Elluminate Support at 1-866-388-8674, or www.elluminate.com/support.
Technical questions or problems should be addressed to Bob Bardon (rebardon@ncsu.edu, 919-515-5575) or Eric Taylor (eric-taylor@tamu.edu, 903-834-6191).
CFE questions, program questions, or to suggest future webinars, please contact Bill Hubbard (whubbard@uga.edu, 706-340-5070).

To configure your computer (for first time webinar attendees):

This Webinar uses Elluminate to facilitate the webinar.
If you have not yet participated in a Elluminate webinar then please go to www.elluminate.com/support for instructions on setting up your computer. You should do this at least 72 hours in advance of a live webinar in case you have any problems that need to be resolved. For those with firewall blocking, you may require help from your IT support prior to the event in order to connect. If you have any hardware or software issues you can call Elluminate Support at 1-866-388-8674.
You will be prompted to download some software which may take anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes depending upon your Internet connection speed. The steps you will complete are as follows:

1. Check that you have Java installed. If you do not the screen will tell you how to download the latest version of Java.
2. Make sure your speakers and/or microphone are set up correctly. You will need to enter the "Configuration Room" in order to test your audio setup.
3. Do the "Recorded Introduction" to get an overview of how to use Elluminate as a participant. This takes about 5-10 minutes to complete

Once you have completed the steps to set up Elluminate on your computer you will need to verify that you can connect with the Elluminate server at NC State University. To verify that you can connect to the NCSU server visit the following link http://go.ncsu.edu/test_webinar_connection. Once the session is loaded you will see a slide indicating you succeeded. If you are unable to connect to the Elluminate Server at NC State University please contact LearnTech at (919) 513-7094.