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Web Conferencing

Engaging, multimedia experience

  • Redesigned user experience makes simple things easy, advanced things possible
  • Enhanced audio with increased clarity and reduced latency
  • Ability to optimize audio for headset or room microphone
  • Consistent live video with follow the speaker, multipoint
  • Tabbed chat, embedded HTML content in chat and web tour
  • Expanded Windows Media Video (WMV) file support for multimedia playback
  • Wider variety of content more easily incorporated
  • Modernized icons and more intuitive placement of polling response options

Easy-to-use, robust tools

  • Activity Window captures session activity
  • Graphical drag-and-drop screen explorer
  • Dynamic whiteboard content reusable across plarform
  • Redesigned whiteboard text editor
  • Application sharing configuration preferences
  • Recording reminder for moderators
  • Application clip art library
  • Enhanced recording playback
  • Ability to add/edit content on the fly
  • Easier-to-use recorded learning objects
  • Improved moderator control with more granular permissioning

Best-in-class breakout rooms

  • Drag and drop participants in/out of rooms
  • Copy content option
  • Grant/remove distribution control for participants
  • Easily distribute participants
  • Quickly copy whiteboard or breakout room content
  • Participants can move themselves from room to room for tutorials, academic fairs

Reach and engage more users worldwide

  • Extended client support for Ubuntu Linux
  • Streamlined, easy deployment of multiple locations and choice of language
  • Ability to use non-North-American-style telephone numbers for moderator and participant
  • Better support international users
  • Enable collaboration in user's preferred language
  • Display local number for users from non-North American teleconference provider

Support what happens before and after a live session

  • Organize, script, and package content and activities before live session (formerly Plan!)
  • Automate routine tasks to focus on facilitating real-time interaction
  • Create standalone recordings or industry-standard video files from session recordings and store on a computer, LMS, website, or CD ROM (formerly Publish!)
  • Play back video files on iPod or view standalone recordings even when not connected to Internet
 
 

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