Since we are limited in our ability to congregate in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, we will be collecting and presenting our SMP posters and oral presentations through this website. Its contents are best viewed on a computer.

To view students' posters (available after May 3) or slideshow videos (available after May 4) asynchronously, just click on the pages for Posters and Oral Presentations and then student's sub-pages.

Rules for Attending Live Sessions:

• • For Oral and Poster Presentations: If you are not the presenter or mentor, begin with your microphone muted*. When you enter the room, please verify that your microphone is muted. It should be by default. To check, put the mouse in the Blackboard Collaborate window and look at the microphone icon. If there is a slash through it and lines of the image are not colored, the microphone is muted. If the icon is green, please click on the microphone image to mute your microphone.

  • For Oral Presentations: If you have a question, type the question in the "chat" feature with an audience of "everyone". If you put your mouse in the Blackboard Collaborate session window, you should see a purple tab to the bottom right. Click on that and a horizontal panel of icons at the bottom right of the screen. Click on the speech bubble "Chat" icon, then type in your question. Be sure the drop-down audience menu in the chat window says "everyone". At the conclusion of the planned remarks in an oral presentation, the faculty mentor will begin asking questions of the student from the chat window in the order they appeared. *Time permitting, you can use the "raise hand" icon and then ask questions with an un-muted microphone if/when the presenter indicates it is allowed and calls on you.

  • For Poster Presentations: You may find it useful to open the presenter's Psychology SMP Portal Google Site Sub-Page in separate window from the one you in which you have the Blackboard Collaborate window/session open (e.g., https://sites.google.com/a/smcm.edu/spring-2020-psychology-smp-portal/home/posters/sean-murphy). That way you can hear/see the poster elevator talk and be able to look at the poster most clearly. At the conclusion of the planned remarks in a poster presentation, the student will respond to questions from the chat window in the order they appeared. *Time permitting, you can use the "raise hand" icon and then ask questions with an un-muted microphone if/when the presenter indicates it is allowed and calls on you.