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Elluminate Live! Academic Edition™s. . .

. . . is the interactive, real-time live Web-based tool that. . .

Ensures a superior user experience, regardless of connection speed
Adds live interaction to asynchronous distance learning
Promotes real understanding and active learning
Improves student performance
Offers rapid return on your technology investment

Need help deciding? Ask about FutureU's consulting for decision makers: Choosing Virtual Collaboration Software.

And that's just the beginning...

Screen shot of Academic Edition Add live eLearning to your asynchronous distance education programs, with opportunities for real-time discussion and dynamic interaction. Only Elluminate Live!™ Academic Edition offers an affordable instruction delivery solution that easily duplicates any learning activity—from lectures and presentations to small group discussions and debates.

Elluminate Live!™ is powerful but flexible, providing a customized online experience for every student. Reach hundreds of students simultaneously—across town or around the world. So you can enhance learning opportunities for all your students, while increasing your reach and your enrollment. You can even develop online communities and add virtual events, like workshops, seminars, and conferences.

With Elluminate Live!™, you can attract and retain qualified instructors, leverage limited teaching resources, and provide professional development. Your instructors can offer virtual office hours for students and enable real-time tutoring and mentoring. And you can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your faculty and staff meetings.

Benefits at a glance

Add live, real-time interaction to existing distance learning
Provide superior experience, with no user left behind
Increase student participation and improve performance
Leverage limited teaching resources
Attract and retain qualified instructors
Reduce travel and teleconferencing costs
Improve information exchange with online meetings
Collaborate in real time, regardless of Internet speed
Ensure safe, secure access anywhere, anytime
Realize rapid return on investment

Install Elluminate Live! on your own server or we'll set you up with a hosted account. Either way, it’s easy to get started, easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to integrate with your own courseware. What’s more, Elluminate Live! can run smoothly from inside existing learning management systems, such s Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege or Moodle. And Elluminate Live! is the most cost-effective live online tools on the market. It's truly usable, useful, and affordable. That's why we recommend it.

Take your online education to the next level. Make the move from text-based content to live interaction, where teaching is more effective, learning more enjoyable, and meeting more productive.

Elluminate Live!™ is powerful enough to reach hundreds of users simultaneously—across town or around the world. And it even works with multiple platforms. So you can meet with colleagues, regardless of where they are located, and train more people in less time to reduce costs and meet your training objectives.

Experience the difference

Thousands of students at hundreds of academic institutions have experienced the Elluminate difference—technology that empowers learning, deepens understanding, and brings education to remote students, who would otherwise be deprived.

Elluminate Live!™ uses a proprietary Collaborative Communications Framework (CCF) to ensure all participants are in sync, regardless of their Internet connection speed. This means that you can always tell which page each of your participants is on and it makes it easy to avoid getting ahead of those with slower connections. And Elluminate Live!™ works on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, Solaris, and Linux.

With Elluminate Live!™, you can take the essence of face-to-face learning and apply it to distance learning. Enjoy real-time, online collaboration tools like two-way audio, direct messaging, live Webcam, application sharing, interactive whiteboards, and breakout rooms. The Elluminate Moderator Tools make it easy for instructors to create content, conduct presentations, and track and control participation more effectively.

Academic customers, like Illinois Virtual High School, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, are happy with their results. By implementing Elluminate Live!™, they're realizing a significant ROI in money saved and productivity gained. Elluminate Live! Academic Edition™ has proven to be ultimately more effective than traditional distance learning, increasing student participation and performance.

Read the Elluminate Live! Academic Edition Data Sheet for more details.
Learn which edition of Elluminate Live! is right for you.
Hear what customers say about Elluminate Live!
Make Elluminate Live! part of your communication and learning toolbox! contact us now to learn how.

Need help deciding? We have a product independent evaluation method that will help you make the best choice for your own unique web conferencing needs. So while we recommend Elluminate for a wide variety of circumstances, we may recommend something else for you! Ask about FutureU's consulting for decision makers: Choosing Virtual Collaboration Software.

Features at a glance

Classroom / Conference Room

Superior technical foundation
Crystal-clear, two-way voice over the Internet
Provide superior experience, with no user left behind
Shared, interactive whiteboard
Instant messaging
Application sharing
Breakout rooms
Interactive quiz and survey manager

Content Development

PowerPoint import
Private and backup slides
Dynamic content creation and editing tools
AppSnap™ copy and paste from desktop
Record and playback
Graphing Calculator
Math Symbol Library

Rich Media Content Support

Live video via Webcam
Multimedia playback
Web Tour

Management and Usability

Advanced, yet easy-to-use moderator tools
Individual bandwidth management
Participant status indicators
Instant polling
Emotion and activity indicators
Easy session creation with email invitations

Accessibility and Security

Windows, MacOS, Java Desktop System, Solaris compatible
Low bandwidth
Automatic reconnection to Internet
Maximum security with SSL

Applications at a glance

Teaching

Instructor-led courses
Student projects, collaboration
Recorded sessions
LMS integration
Live demos/labs via Webcam

Tutoring and Mentoring

Virtual office hours
One-on-one instructor or peer-based tutoring
Mentoring, from peers or professionals

Meetings

Faculty and staff
Administration and operations
Idea sharing, brainstorming
Course content review and update

Events

Web-based or blended onsite/online
Conferences
Seminars
Workshops

Professional Development

Faculty and staff training
New instruction methodologies, best practices
New tools and technology updates and training
Polices, procedures dissemination
Opportunities for teacher communication, discussion, collaboration

And Much More

Home schooling
Special education
Online clubs, communities
Parent/teacher conferences

Elluminate Live! Academic Edition™ Features and Key Benefits

Superior technical foundation

Data stream optimized to each user's connection speed
Collaborate in real time, regardless of Internet connection speeds,with everyone seeing and hearing the same thing at the same time.

Crystal Clear, two-way voice over the Internet

Drastically reduce expensive teleconferencing bills.
Gain better control over audio interactions by participants.

Shared, Interactive Whiteboard

Private and Backup slides
Laser pointer
Resize whiteboards
Edit / group / layer /align / resize objects
Rearrange and insert slides
Create dynamic content to enhance your meetings and training sessions.
Enable detailed analysis, sharing, collaboration, and discussion.
Import protected files for use in public environment.
Save and reload content for later use.

Application sharing

Conduct hands-on training or share the latest sales projections with all session participants.
Check participants'work with “over-the-shoulder” coaching.
Choose between high quality for image-sharing or high speed for animation sharing.

AppSnap™

Capture screens from shared applications and live or recorded video.

Live Webcam Video

Show live video in four different modes based on quality or frame rate.
Give video privilege to one or more selected participants or all participants.

Multimedia content delivery

Play multimedia files for all participants.
Load multimedia files into library.
Monitor download to participants and initiate playback.

Synchronized Web Tour

Push participants to multiple URLs via embedded window.
Allow participants to interact independently with content in fully functional window.
Redirect participants to any link—all at the same time.

Breakout Rooms

complete with private audio, whiteboard, and application sharing.
Focus discussions and presentations among smaller groups.
Instructor can move from room to room to observe.
Make select whiteboards available to certain groups, or move them around among the groups.

Server-based whiteboard

Load images faster and easier for more participants to make more efficient use of training time.

Record and Playback

Make sessions available to those who want to review the content or missed the live session.

Clip Art

Create shareable clip art collections.

Audio Wizard

Test speakers and microphone.
Allow participants to properly set speaker and microphone volume.

Moderator Tools

Moderators know if participants are seeing the content they should at all times. Participant Status Indicators show if users are on a slow speed connection or experiencing Internet delays, so moderator can adjust the presentation accordingly with minimal disruption.
Gain control of sessions with permission granting, attendee list, and sequenced hand-raising features.
Control participant's microphone volume.
View and sharedynamic pollingg summary results.
Activity indicators allow instructors to see who has "stepped out"of a session or who is typing a direct message.
Emotion indicators alert moderators of participants' understanding and moods during a session.

Cross-platform support

Import files onto whiteboard and share applications from PC, Mac, Linux and Sun platforms, including StarOfficeand OpenOfficee.

Session administration for hosted customers

Schedule and access sessions via customized email invitations.
Set up one-time or recurring meetings and permanent virtual rooms.
Provide open attendance or require enrollment.
Make recorded sessions available to all or specific users.
Users can automatically click on a link to add the meeting to their email calendar.

Need help deciding? We have a product independent evaluation method that will help you make the best choice for your own unique web conferencing needs. So while we recommend Elluminate for a wide variety of circumstances, we may recommend something else for you! Ask about FutureU's consulting for decision makers: Choosing Virtual Collaboration Software.