Authentically Interactive:Empowering Real-time Collaboration

Who is Elluminate?

• Leading provider of live eLearning and Web conferencing solutions– Successful background in niche technology development

• Elluminate Live!• Norton 2000 (Symantec)

– Head Office in Calgary, Alberta – 400 + Client Base in North America and worldwide– Focus primarily (90%) on academic markets– Over 100% growth, year-over-year, for the past 4 ½ years– Aggressive growth plans moving

forward

What Elluminate Does!

• Elluminate provides a STABLE, ROBUST, and PEDAGOGICALLY FOCUSED web conferencing solution

• Elluminate will redefine how you share learning & knowledge within your organization

“We feel that developing relationships between students and teachers is critical to student success in an online environment. The synchronous environment provided by Elluminate Live! allows instructors and students to build these relationships through the use of highly interactive tools—about as close to the experience of being in a real classroom as you can get, and still be doing everything online.”

Jody Ouradnik,Technical Coordinator, Hopkins Online Academy

Sampling of Customers

Academic Applications• Direct Instruction

– One-to-one / One-to-many• Instructor Office Hours• Remote Guest Speakers• Cohort Groups• Research Initiatives• Faculty Meetings• Project Management Groups• Professional Development• Tutoring / Counseling• Blended Learning• Marketing Academic Programs• Learning Object Repository Development

– Pod Casts

Overview of Elluminate Live!

Technology Foundation

• Ease of use– Transparent technology

• Universal access – Low bandwidth– Multiple-platform (Windows, Mac, Sun Java Desk Top

(JDS/Linux)

• High Quality Experience– Collaborative Communication Framework (CCF)

• Ensures Participants are Always in Sync• Leading Edge Design• Moderator ESP

Communication Features

• Voice over the Internet– 2 way Audio accessible

even at low bandwidths

• Instant Messaging– Private and public

messages

• Live Video– Mac or PC– Compressed Video – Direct X Video Support– High End cameras such as

FireWire Sony Camcorders

Collaboration Features

• Whiteboard– Powerful and flexible

interactive content creation tools

• Web Tour– Synchronized web surfing

• Application Sharing– Share and give control of

quality images and animations

• Multimedia Playback– Load and playback multimedia

files

Small-Group CollaborationElluminate Live! Breakout Rooms

• Facilitate individual student group work, or to allow for breakout groups within a larger group

• Features– Private Audio, Whiteboard, App

Sharing– Move freely from room to room– Move content from room to room

Multimedia Playback• Ability to load Multimedia files into the library

– Mpeg, QuickTime, Flash

• Moderators can view the status of downloads of all files to all participants– Download managed by CCF in the background

• Moderators can initiate multimedia playback for all participants– Media is played back for all participants

Moderator ESP

Test Student UnderstandingElluminate Live! Quiz Manager

• Test student understanding – Formally (Unit Exams) or– Informally (end of lesson

check-up)

• Access quiz statistics as a class summary or individually

• Load and store quizzes or quiz results

Accessibility – Closed Captioning

• Incorporated Closed Captioning feature– Closed captions are available during the live session and

the recording

• Through privileges granted by the moderator, multiple attendees can provide closed captions during a session

Accessibility – Closed Captioning

• When viewing closed-captions, users can select which source and font

• At a glance, moderators can determine who is providing and viewing closed-captions

Creative uses of Closed Captioning

• The availability of multiple streams of closed captioning allow you to close caption the session in multiple languages

• The ability for users to select their “Preferred Source” allows them to watch other streams until their favorite source (or language, as in the previous bullet) becomes available

• Closed Captioning privileges can be given to all participants to allow them to “Blog” the session live – Each Blog is recorded and can be reviewed while

watching the recording– This is a great way to ensure involvement and

understanding of a session by individual students

Accessibility Features

• Screen Readers– Allows screen reader products such as JAWS, Narrator, etc. to

provide verbal cues in the Elluminate Live! interface

• Resize the font in the Direct Messaging window• Color and Contrast Settings

– Common colors – default colors for Elluminate Live!

– Platform colors – use your desktop settings/theme (eg. High Contrast)

• Additional hot key for terminating the sharing of applications or regions

Additional Instructional Features

• Online graphing calculator– Moderator Controlled – Shared Versus Private Mode

• Sessions can be recorded for later playback– Moderator controls recording (record / pause / delete recording)– Create a library of learning objects that include the instructor’s “voice”– Students can revisit sessions for improved understanding– Absent students never miss a session

• Publish Pod Casts easily and effectively– Edit and index recorded sessions with Camtasia– Leverage Elluminate’s Strategic Partnership to make SCORM compliant

learning objects

• Multiple language support– Spanish in version 6.5– French in version 7.0

Case Study:Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC)

• A world leader in the delivery of distance education, ADLC facilitates over 20,000 students worldwide

• ADLC received an Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) Grant to study the impact of adding a synchronous modality within their asynchronous courses– Compared student results from 3 years of

asynchronous delivery only against their first year of including a synchronous component

http://www.adlc.ab.ca

ADLC Case Study Results

* “30” level subjects are 12th Grade, Academic courses* Applied Math10 is a General level, 10th Grade Math

Subject

Delivery Mode

Completion Rate Asynchronous

Model

Completion Rate Synchronous

Model

Chemistry 30 42% 87.5%

Math 31 48% 85%

Physics 30 41% 94%

Applied Math 10 57% 87.5%

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Elluminate Live!Version 7.0

New Features and Enhancements

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Full Duplex Audio

• Multiple talkers– Ability for multiple people (up to

4) to talk simultaneously– Allows easy interaction

• Click on Talk button just once to start conversation

– Allows speaker panels • Ability to easily transition

from one speaker to another– Shows Audio on/off key

sequence on Talk button• Caution: Should only be used with

headsets or with echo-cancellation microphones when using external speakers

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• Users are prompted with option to save when files are transferred

• Files are also transferred during recording playback

File Transfer• Ability to transfer files (all file types) to users

• Transfer privilege can be given to participants

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User Profiles

• Users can create a profile to be locally stored and shared with others in the session

• Import / Export vCard data

• Permission based– Moderator control:

Show to All, Moderators only or no one

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Accelerator Keys

• Keyboard shortcut and mnemonics for easy navigation without the need of a mouse– Accelerator keys for the emoticons and polling

– Accelerator keys for commonly used actions• Hand Raise:

– Ctrl-R (Windows) or Meta-R (Apple)

• Entering a text message: – Ctrl-M (Windows) or Meta-M (Apple)

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User Interface• Updated look and feel for all platforms

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Application Sharing

• Preview– Visual feedback to host of what’s being shared with others

• Markup– Places a snapshot of the application being shared onto the whiteboard for

annotation, retention and discussion• Mini-Controller

– Ability to share an application running full screen application while still monitoring the session activity (hand raise, direct messaging, etc.)

– Enables continuous session awareness

• Key Strokes– Ability to send keystroke combinations to remote machine – especially

useful for Virtual Lab Training (Eg. Sending Alt+F4 to a remote windows application to close that application)

• Entire Desktop Sharing– Easy one-click Entire Desktop Sharing bypasses other menus and dialogs

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Whiteboard

• Larger Resolution Presentation Slides– Import higher resolution

presentations• Animated Images

– Load animated GIFs– Animated Laser pointer

• Participant Whiteboard Screen Viewing– Track whiteboards being

viewed by participants (when “Follow Moderator” is off)

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Breakout Rooms

• Allow automatic random or assigned distribution of attendees into breakout groups– Randomize by number of

rooms or number of participants per room

• Rename breakout groups

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Polling

• Publish polling results to a new whiteboard screen for all attendees to view

• Lock poll responses – Participants cannot change their responses

• Individual polls can be conducted per breakout room

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Direct Messaging

• Ability to send graphical emoticons

• Ability to increase size of “send message” area

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Additional Enhancements

• Additional hot keys– Application share snapshot to whiteboard– Show/hide mini-controller– Start/stop video transmission

• Closed Captioning– New “save” button

• New window layout – Only the Whiteboard

• Disable audible hand raise notification

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Elluminate Live! Server Scalability

• Elluminate Live! can be used in 2 ways– Hosted by Elluminate– Installed on your own server behind your firewall

• Elluminate Live! Server scalability has improved tremendously with v7– Scales to 16+ processors– Provides improved per-processor performance and

scalability– Benchmarked to 10,000 simultaneous users on a

SunFire E15K and to 4,000 simultaneous users on a SunFire T2000 server

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Questions Contact:

Roger Hanley 866-388-8674 Opt 4 / Ext 2 RogerH@elluminate.com http://www.elluminate.com