Wimba Pronto is a chat client building block that can be installed into Blackboard that if allowed in the course you may add it to your list of courses in the program and it will allow you to chat with other students and instructors that are also using Wimba Pronto.

That said Wimba Pronto when installed does not retroactively apply itself to all courses in existence. It will only show up in newly created courses from the point of install.

Example:

Pre WP Install

Course 1, Course 2, Course 3 (Will not allow WP to work)

Post WP Install

Course 4, Course 5 (Will allow WP to work)

Also any course exports or archives of Course 1-3 created prior to WP install when imported or restored will not contain the WP tool option if settings are allowed to be part of said import.

There are a couple of ways to fix this.

One you can export or archive the current course then import or restore as needed and it will add to the settings the WP tool selection choice.

This is not always the best solution for the client as the course may be live etc.

A more direct and better way is to do this via the DB.

First obtain the Course PK1 value in whatever fashion you are used to obtaining this.

Be it through the gui of looking it up in the COURSE_MAIN table in the DB a couple such ways would be

select * from COURSE_MAIN where COURSE_ID = 'course id'
select * from COURSE_MAIN where COURSE_NAME = 'course name'

Once you have obtained this value you can verify the the Wimba Pronto application selection does not exist in the DB for said course. (More than likely you will already know it doesn't and have seen it not as an option in the gui but you want to make sure.)
Utilize the following code to check. (Modify code with and if you want to be more specific, but I like to see the list to make sure.)

select * from COURSE_APPLICATION where CRSMAIN_PK1=pk1

You're looking for "hw-com_pronto" in the APPLICATION column

If it's not there it needs to be added.

Next you will need to obtain the next pk1 value to be utilized in the COURSE_APPLICATION. There are a number of ways to do this mine is obviously not the best but it's the simplest.

First I run the code

select * from COURSE_APPLICATION

Once done put the PK1 column into numerical order

Go to the end and that last value +1 will be what you will use.

This list can be rather long. Once I get a better method I'll change the code above, but for now you may need to utilize such code to get closer to the end.

select * from COURSE_APPLICATION where PK1 > 8360000

Once that value is obtained to add the data need you will use the following code

insert into COURSE_APPLICATION values (CRSMAIN_PK1,'hw-com_pronto',(null),'N','N','Y',PK1,'Y')

Example

insert into COURSE_APPLICATION values (120488,'hw-com_pronto',(null),'N','N','Y',8360637,'Y')

Then you can check the gui and it will be in the course Tools area turned on.