Testimonials

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• Alaska Vocational Technical Center

  • "Elluminate Live! facilitates the connection we need to build a strong learning community and enhance the student experience. The integration between Elluminate and Moodle helps students by offering a single log-in, and it frees up instructors from setting up class links and entering attendance data, allowing them to spend more time on course development."

    Trish Hart

• Washington Virtual Academies

  • "I would highly recommend this course. I feel more confident that I can deliver a lesson without fumbling through the technology. I know my lessons will be more interactive and engaging for my students. A++"

    Wendy Moore

• Aventa Learning

  • "I had been using Elluminate for four years prior to this course, and in the first 1/2 hour I was already wowed!"

    Kimberly Taylor

• Insight School of Washington

  • "I absolutely adore Elluminate. It's a way for me to get to know my students and for them to get to know one another. Elluminate is a wonderful, integral part of our teaching, and it's clear that students who come to Elluminate sessions are almost always more successful."
    

    Shelli Strate – National Subject Area Specialist

• eLearning Guild

  • Elluminate has been great to work with. At the end of the day, we needed a company that would partner with us to ensure our members got effective support. Elluminate has really stepped up to the plate on this. That's one of the main reasons we're working with them.

    David Holcombe – President and CEO

• Center for Distance Learning and Innovation

  • "Traditionally, rural students in Canada are falling way behind urban students. Our provincial exams show our students are doing as well, if not better, than students experiencing face-to-face learning. While we do use a variety of tools, I can tell you that we would not be as successful without Elluminate Live! The feedback from our students is that they like the product and find it useful."

    Center for Distance Learning and Innovation Maurice Barry – Program Development Specialist

• San Jose State University

  • "Elluminate has become an integral tool in the culture of our graduate program. We rely on it for communication and collaboration between and among faculty, students, staff, administrators, and guest lecturers. Students tell us it helps them to feel like they are part of a community and they feel more connected with others in the program. In short, it is a tool that allows us to be more successful in meeting our educational objectives."

    San Jose State University Debbie Faires – Assistant Director for Distance Learning, School of Library and Information Science

• Penn State University World Campus

  • "After reviewing several collaboration software tools, we felt that Elluminate Live! was the most appropriate solution for the support of synchronous events in online distance education environments. In addition, it was the only product that had a well-developed voice over IP component."

    Rick Shearer – Assistant Director for Instructional Design and Delivery

• Penn State University World Campus

  • "One of my concerns with online learning has been the depersonalization of interaction when using threaded discussions and message boarding. With Elluminate Live! I can create a sense of community for remote students who go through the entire program together. When I first demonstrated the product, I could feel the participants' excitement about their ability to do the human things that draw us together, like sharing the whiteboard and raising hands. My graduate students are enamored with the potential of Elluminate Live! to shape the process by which we learn."

    Dr. Iris Striedieck – assistant professor and lead faculty member Masters in Education

• California State University, Northridge

  • "As a faculty member in the Department of Special Education at CSUN, I have been using Elluminate now for over two years for a variety of purposes. I've held a faculty meeting in Elluminate with ten faculty sharing their online experiences, conducted synchronous class sessions in a method class, offered prerecorded lectures of content for online asynchronous classes, and put on workshops for mentor teachers who support our students. I have found Elluminate to be highly engaging and interactive and feel confident that I can do 100% of what I do in an on-campus session in an Elluminate session."

    Ashley Skylar, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education

• Northampton Community College

  • "Many of my students develop a "block" to astronomy concepts simply because they found the math problems formidable. Now that we have Elluminate, I conduct weekly tutoring sessions to go over the problems and address any other issues or questions. I record each session and post a link to it on our course site so students can review at their convenience. Homework grades have improved substantially and the dropout rate has plummeted."

    Northampton Community College William Gibney – Astronomy Instructor

• LearningTimes, LLC

  • "We schedule a lot of events for one-time users as well as long-term participants. Even those who visit a community a single time for a specific event only have to spend a few minutes with Elluminate Live! in the beginning to feel comfortable using it. For intimate class discussions and relationship development, Elluminate Live! is the best of breed for building a relationship with our ongoing users. We really like it that students can enter a classroom early, using Elluminate Live! as a collaboration tool even before the moderator logs in."

    John Walber – CEO

• LearningTimes, LLC

  • "Elluminate Live! far and away exceeds what others can do. It's a very strong virtual classroom tool. Our users still "ooh and aah" over the product. Anyone who enjoys teaching in a face-to-face classroom can adapt easily to the Elluminate Live! environment."

    John Walber – CEO

• LearningTimes, LLC

  • "We wanted to go beyond the current standard of simply teaching a course via a virtual classroom to providing an environment for peer collaboration, with or without a moderator. Our goal is to integrate tools and build environments around them, providing the ability to create the magic of a live classroom that's easy to use from the beginning. Elluminate Live! allows us to do that."
    

    John Walber – CEO

• Aspen View Schools

  • "After 18 months of reviewing potential software solutions, we have chosen to work with Elluminate. The Elluminate Live! technology provides our division with the potential to enhance curricular offering to our small high schools, and to encourage and enhance professional collaboration between our teachers, administrators, and Trustees through the bridging of immense distances across our jurisdiction."
    

    Dr. Dean Lindquist – Chief Deputy Superintendent

• Fanshawe College

  • "It was icing on the cake that Elluminate paired with Desire2Learn. It has enabled us to streamline our administration of students and courses. It is a huge, huge benefit."

    Bob Beatty – CIO

• University of Alaska Anchorage

  • "We have a very large state with geographically separated campuses, so we do a lot of virtual meetings and project management for IT and facilities projects, collaboration between institutions, research. Elluminate Live! is a basic communication tool that's used as an alternative to separate audio and video conferencing. We also looked at the extent to which we would be able to operate it as enterprise service. When we adopt a particular technology, we build it for high availability 24/7/365. Our basic philosophy is that if faculty can't count on a technology, they won't use it."

    Rich Whitney – CIO

• Northwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center

  • "County coalition meetings can mean hours of travel. We've had an amazing response from participants after only two meetings using Elluminate. There was an initial hesitation, but the groups now prefer meeting online. We can do the exact same things as in a face-to-face meeting, and because it's more convenient, we've been able to increase attendance. Plus, we can record meetings for those who couldn't attend."

    Tricia Korthanke – Community Prevention Consultant

• Sloan Consortium

  • "This year we decided that a blended environment of asynchronous and synchronous learning would help us open up our workshop to a wider audience, nationally and internationally. We looked at a number of synchronous solutions and determined that Elluminate Live! was the best fit. It doesn't require a phone and works with both PCs and Macs, so it's convenient and cost-effective. As part of the overall learning experience, we think workshop participants will enjoy combining synchronous with asynchronous methods."

    Keith Bourne – COO

• Stockton City Learning Centre

  • "For the past four years, the Stockton CLC has used Elluminate Live! for a variety of creative initiatives, including Rocks from Space, a project involving multiple schools where students investigate the solar system with the help of scientists. We are delighted that, after several years of being a hosted customer and receiving such excellent support from Elluminate, we have now taken the step of purchasing a perpetual license. Our experience and relationship with Elluminate has always been positive, and through their continued support, we have had the opportunity to expand and consolidate our usage through many exciting projects. The inclusion and appreciation of our views and suggestions in the development of Elluminate has been a privilege and we look forward to our relationship continuing in the future."

    Stockton City Learning Centre Val Brooks – Deputy Director

• Stockton City Learning Centre

  • "Elluminate Plan! is just what I have been waiting for to be able to organize my activities in a way that will make them easy for me to handle within an Elluminate Live! session. I had always found it cumbersome to have a series of actions that I had to remember to load at the appropriate times. Multitasking is not easy, so Elluminate Plan! will free me to make the overall learning experience smoother and even more valuable."

    Stockton City Learning Centre Val Brooks – Deputy Director

• University of Alaska Anchorage

  • "A lot of people at UAA using Elluminate Live! are not instructional technology users. While they use email and Internet, they are not early technology adopters or heavy users of technology. It was surprising and somewhat amazing to see mainstream faculty members embrace the use of Elluminate Live! It has a wide appeal, and they use the product as needed to help communication, keep connected, and share resources."

    Chris Sturm – Digital Media Consultant

• Stockton City Learning Center

  • "We want to change how technology is used for education. Rather than a regimented, formal situation, we want to promote the use of collaborative groups where kids help each other and teachers are facilitators, not power brokers. Virtual classroom technology will also help us further empower special needs children. We've had nothing but good experiences with Elluminate Live!"

    Steven Kirby – Director

• U. of Iowa Center for International Rural and Environmental Health (CIREH)

  • "This technology has been enthusiastically received by the Fogarty International Training program collaborators we work with in seven countries. Collaborators in Croatia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia are even planning to use Elluminate Live! to conduct their own seminars. The presentations we put together for our group of countries using Elluminate are applicable throughout the world."

    Thomas Cook – Director

• Insight Schools

  • "Insight teachers bring learning alive in their classroom sessions, iMentors "walk" students to class, students take part in extracurricular activities, and administrators assist their teachers, parents, and students, all through Elluminate technologies. More than anything else, Elluminate brings people together to make learning happen. Elluminate has made a great difference in the instruction of our students. Thank you for the difference you make."

    Insight Schools Kim Bonniksen – Director

• The California State University

  • "Elluminate's closed captioning functionality helps a larger group than just the hearing-impaired community. Those with learning disabilities or for whom English is a second language benefit as well. It's not just about making a better product for the disabled. It's about making a better product for everyone."

    Mark Turner – Director for the Center for Accessible Media

• The California State University

  • "While a number of campuses in the CSU system use Elluminate products, we also licensed Elluminate Live! at the Chancellor's Office. I was a big supporter of the purchase, and of course, Elluminate's accessibility played a significant role in our decision."

    Mark Turner – Director for the Center for Accessible Media, Office of the Chancellor

• Orange County Department of Education

  • "Elluminate Live! is a way of connecting in an intuitively friendly environment to create learning opportunities throughout our county and beyond."

    Mary Townsend – Director Instructional Services

• California State University, Sacramento

  • "Sacramento State began using iMEET powered by Elluminate Live! over a year ago, and has seen significant increase in adoption in the academic, student affairs, and business operations of the University. An increasing number of courses, including education, nursing, engineering, and computer science are now using iMEET/Elluminate to deliver lectures, offer virtual office hours, and have virtual group activity. This past fall, the University Human Resources Department undertook a pilot and offered six workshops using iMEET/Elluminate, some totally online, some in a hybrid (face-to-face and online) format. In addition, there are also a number of staff interviews being conducted on iMEET/Elluminate to reduce travel costs, and the Emergency, Health and Safety Officers across the CSU now meet monthly on the Sac State iMEET/Elluminate platform."

    Jean-Pierre R. Bayard, Ph.D. – Director of Academic Technology & Creative Services, Professor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

• California State University, Fresno

  • "We're finding Elluminate to be a valuable tool for online interaction, both for scheduled classes and for office hours. It's great hearing from faculty that students who might start as reluctant users of technology quickly find Elluminate to be a comfortable learning environment. We're looking forward to using Elluminate Plan! and Elluminate Publish! next semester."

    Brent Auernheimer – Director of Digital Campus

• Northampton Community College

  • "While Elluminate Live! enables us to enhance our instruction and student services, it also helps close a big communication gap with our distance learners to build a stronger sense of community. In addition, since 80% of our online instructors are adjunct faculty, we use Elluminate Live! to help them feel more connected to the college."

    Northampton Community College Kelvin Bentley, PhD – Director of Distance Learning

• University of Alaska Southeast

  • "If we want a tool adopted across our organization, it has to be something like email where you just start using it and eventually learn more capabilities. I was very confident that Elluminate was a tool that would succeed in our environment. Elluminate Live! is one of our most successful projects in recent years, with positive feedback from students, a high faculty adoption rate, the flexibility of SDK, and the success of our cross-institution collaboration."

    Michael Ciri – Director of IT Services

• Al-Quds Open University

  • "Because the university was already using Moodle and other web tools, adding Elluminate makes our environment more vital and effective."

    Dr. Majid Hamayil – Director of Open and Distance Learning Center

• University of Iowa Tippe School of Business

  • "Sometimes technology gets in the way of getting work done. Elluminate Live! doesn't waste time because it works. The technology is totally transparent and easy to use. It's an incredible tool for meeting and collaboration. Once we started using Elluminate Live! our meetings immediately became shorter and more productive."

    Margaret Jesse – Director of Stead Technology Services Group and Adjunct Lecturer

• University of Kansas Medical Center

  • "At Elluminate, everyone from sales to support has contributed to a very productive and positive experience. It's all about what you can do for the students. With Elluminate Live! the focus is on teaching and learning, not on the product. That makes a huge difference. We have groups of faculty already waiting in line to use it."

    University of Kansas Medical Center Darrin Cheney – Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies

• United Benefit Advisors

  • "Our biggest challenge was that we didn't want the medium, to be a distraction. With Elluminate Live! the user adaption time is incredibly quick, so members can concentrate on content during training, rather than the technology used to deliver it."

    Jeff Hill – Director of Technology Services

• Chicago State University

  • "Because of the success we had in collaborating with University of Illinois, Springfield, we pursued obtaining Elluminate Live! for our own campus, not only in the classroom but also for faculty and staff meetings for the university as a whole. We were aware of other products, but Elluminate Live! met our needs. We are now in the process of determining how to make the best use of the opportunities Elluminate Live! provides, alone and in combination with Blackboard."

    Julian Scheinbuks, PhD – Director of the Office of Distance Learning

• Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy/Illinois Virtual Academy

  • "At IVHS, we understand that you can't entirely plan learning. It happens at different times. Sometimes it's structured and other times it's spontaneous. With Elluminate Live! we have one more tool in place to ensure that learning will happen in a natural, organic way. We serve students throughout the state of Illinois, regardless of where they live. Every school is different. Elluminate Live! helps us level the playing field for our students, providing them with opportunities for learning that they can't always get in their own schools."

    Matthew Wicks – Director of Virtual Learning

• Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy/Illinois Virtual High School

  • "The implementation of Elluminate Live! was easy, even with the need to integrate the technology into the existing eCollege platform. Both Elluminate and eCollege listened to our needs and made sure that everything worked together. Now our students and teachers can simply log onto the IVHS site and with a single click, go to an Elluminate Live! environment."

    Matthew Wicks, – Director of Virtual Learning

• Alabama Department of Education

  • "Elluminate is now a standard method of delivery for professional development and virtual meetings held by the Alabama State Department of Education and ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) Distance Learning."

    Melinda Maddox – Director Technology Initiatives

• Alabama Department of Education

  • "In these tight economic times, we are finding that the use of Elluminate is crucial to meeting the needs of today's teachers and administrators."

    Melinda Maddox – Director Technology Initiatives

• University of Hertfordshire

  • "Elluminate Live! is very useful, useable, and effective, especially for capturing the problem solving process to help student understand the subject more thoroughly. I've found that students are actually more confident about contributing online than in the face-to-face classroom, and the virtual classroom environment makes teachers think about how to increase interactivity and reinforces good teaching practices."

    Peter Bullen – Director, Blended Learning Unit

• The California State University

  • "I've been impressed with Elluminate's responsiveness and willingness to actively pursue constructive criticism, solicit customer feedback, and work together to find ways to make its products better. The company also realizes the importance of bringing in the right people, providing access to the engineering team and administrators who have decision making power. This streamlines the process for everyone. Elluminate is not just along for the ride. They want to take things to a higher level."

    Mark Turner – Director, Center for Accessible Media, Office of the Chancellor

• California Polytechnic State University

  • "Elluminate has saved us travel expenses and worked as well as traditional face-to-face research meetings between five CUS campuses. In addition, a Cal Poly engineering faculty member used Elluminate to solve examples problems for students. An overwhelming majority of the students liked using it. The sessions were recorded and will be published for student review."

    Walt Bremer, ASLA, ADE – Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

• California State University, Long Beach

  • "Elluminate has opened up exciting opportunities to enhance instruction at CSULB. Instructors and students meet from home, offices, computer labs, and locations from around the world to interact with their teaching and learning environments. Students benefit from recorded lectures reviewing course content as often as they wish. The variety of uses continues to grow!"

    Leslie Kennedy – Director, Instructional Technology Support Services

• NYIT

  • "The LearnCentral Private Community enables NYIT's Technology Based Learning Systems to provide a system of support for all of its programs. LearnCentral allows us to have the best of Web 2.0 but with the added security and resource sharing of a private community, all with the power of a direct integration with Elluminate."

    Stan Silvernan – Director, Technology Based Learning Systems

• The Open University

  • "Our selection process involved a procurement exercise where 14 applicants completed pre-qualification questionnaires, from which 3 shortlisted vendors were invited to tender proposals. We then conducted technical, accessibility, and cross-faculty stakeholder and user evaluations covering a range of essential and desirable criteria. Elluminate Live! scored most highly on user features and functionality and was also the strongest on technical requirements. The Elluminate tools have the potential to alter dramatically the learning experience for our nearly 200,000 distance learners, bringing them closer to each other and to their tutors."

    Niall Schlater – Director, VLE Programs

• Prairie Spirit School Division

  • "As a tool for professional development, Elluminate Live! has become a real strength for the division. I've been keeping track of mileage saved. I estimate that we save approximately $18K per year in time and mileage by eliminating some of the travel. Add to this several thousand dollars in savings for meals, substitute teachers, plus other intangible benefits, and we are at almost half of our ROI in a single year."

    Donald Girouard – Distance Education Coordinator

• Alaska Vocational Technical Center

  • This is the best tech support I have ever received. They go above and beyond the call of duty every time I have needed them.

    Debra Burdick – Distance Education Coordinator/Instructor

• Northern Arizona University

  • "Student-to student-interaction is an area that I think will be very important as we go forward. I believe that it will be the graduate students who will use Elluminate Live! most extensively, working on projects where they have to collaborate, even on a global level. Email does a lot, but it doesn't do it all. And phone calls are expensive. At NAU, we are trying to provide another alternative for collaboration. There's no reason they have to be in the same room to work together."

    Don Carter – E-Learning Center Director

• Northern Arizona University

  • "While technology like interactive TV and content management systems enhance distance learning, people still want human interaction. We recognized that the time was right to bring in technology that would allow faculty to control their interactions with each other and with students. Elluminate Live! enables us to offer a broader solution that can support all campus activities, not just online courses."

    Don Carter – E-Learning Center Director

• Maher & Maher

  • The company is wonderful. I know their tech support staff on a first-name basis. Their support is very strong, and I know I can call any time. It's really a great selling point. I think of the Elluminate support as part of the total user experience.

    Jane Haag – Education Consultant

• Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia

  • "Elluminate caters to different kinds of communication styles with multiple conversational inputs that can be packaged and presented to others. You can't do that with any other type of technology. Elluminate has enabled us to provide a customized approach to meet the needs of many."

    Janet Bell – Educational Technology Resource

• BCcampus

  • "BCcampus is a systemic support service to institutions, so whatever we do becomes a forum, showcase, and test bed for those institutions to try new and better ways of working. Through our communities of practice, we can demonstrate the utility of using tools such as Elluminate Live! for live eLearning and collaboration. The best way to do that is to involve as many educators as possible, which is a part of our mandate. We've had success with all our groups, in part because we pick technology that is easy to use and provides a real payoff for the users."

    David Porter – Executive Director

• Northwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center

  • "Elluminate is an affordable alternative for nonprofits. We pinch our pennies, so cost savings is important.It's really important for me in these economic times that we find a solution that would help us do training and meetings in a more efficient way. Elluminate vClass makes it easy to connect and collaborate."

    Sue Evans – Executive Director

• LINGOs

  • "LINGOs recently completed an online course for project managers that was attended by people in 15 countries, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Moldova, Tanzania, Tibet, and Vietnam. For two hours a day, three times a week over three weeks, students were able to share challenges of their projects and learn from each other and from the leading thinking of the sector about project management principles. This synchronous learning experience would have been impossible without Elluminate Live!"

    Eric Berg – Executive Director

• NETnet

  • "The latest Elluminate VCS release is exactly what we've been waiting for. High-quality video to the desktop with up to 25 sites in a session will allow a complete cohort of learners to work together in real-time in various areas across our region."

    Mickey Slimp – Executive Director

• NETnet

  • "The Elluminate VCS floating user license and the ability to interoperate with our existing H.323 investments really adds the icing to the cake. The applications are across the board - workforce education, graduate programs, K-16 partnerships - you name it!"

    Mickey Slimp – Executive Director

• Tennessee Tech University

  • "International Comparative Studies in Japanese and American Architecture was seen as a real innovation, using Elluminate Live! to enhance the learning experience for students from both cultures. The level of cooperation and interaction among the students surprised even me. Elluminate Live! was perfect for a visually based distance education model."

    Tennessee Tech University Jeff Plant – Full Professor

• Liberty Christian School

  • "Because of Elluminate, we can build a successful school and create learning environments that will ensure our students' success. We knew our eLearning program would be successful in achieving our goals when we discovered Elluminate Live! We anticipate a return on our investment by the second year."

    Rob Shiflet – Headmaster

• Argyll Centre

  • "We can use Elluminate Live! to remotely take over students' computers to solve problems, rather than making home visits or having them bring in their machines. Prior to classes, we also work with the online students to help them get them familiar with the tool. We have a number of students in other countries, like China, and Elluminate Live! enabled us to get them up and running a lot quicker than in previous years."

    Argyll Centre Cheryl Radons – Help Desk Technician

• Penn State University World Campus

  • "A key capability that we find very valuable is the record and playback feature. It allows students who can't attend the original session to watch the recording asynchronously. It has been a real benefit for the students, many of whom work full-time and require some flexibility to keep current with their studies."

    Dr. Bob Crum – iMBA Program Instructor

• Pan American Health Organization

  • "Our users are in communities trying to confront the local health needs. We have significantly reduced the amount of face-to-face meetings required and replaced them with virtual sessions. In fact, within a single year, the organization has had almost 1,500 videoconferencing sessions. When we started, there was a degree of hesitation. But now we can say conferencing has been a great experience for all of us."

    Dr. Richard Van West-Charles – Information and Knowledge Management Area Director

• Penn State University

  • This has to be one of the fastest response times in the industry. We work with several technical support teams through out several categories from hardware to software. Your fast response allows us to respond back to our students in a timely manner. So let me pass along some of the thanks that we receive from our students for our fast response to their issues. For without your fast and helpful responses we would not be able to do our jobs they way they should be done.

    James E. Sechrengost – Information Systems Support Consultant

• Calgary Board of Education

  • "I have always been very appreciative of what Elluminate offered in terms of tool sets, ease of use, and efficiency and effectiveness of the tools. I did try a variety of synchronous tools, but there was nothing that replicated the clarity, effectiveness, and reach of Elluminate Live!"

    Cathy Faber – Innovative Learning Services Director

• Calgary Board of Education

  • "We work with a range of learning skills and abilities and find that Elluminate Live! can be easily adjusted to meet learner needs and preferences. It has become a natural sounding board and meeting place where students can drive whole agendas on their own. Elluminate Live! can also be enhanced with layers of learning from other devices and environment."

    Cathy Faber – Innovative Learning Services Director

• Babson College

  • "The company has been fabulous to work with from day one. Not only is the support staff completely available, but the documentation is great. You can reach high-level technicians within a couple of minutes. It's not like that with other collaboration tools. I was pleasantly surprised and am very happy with everything. I can't say enough about Elluminate. They are just great!"

    Tova Garcia Duby – Instructional Technologist, Curriculum Innovation & Technology Group

• Harris County Department of Education

  • "As time went by, we started using Elluminate not just for synchronous interaction but also for tutorial projects, and we always provide a sandbox where they can pop in any point to learn the environment a little bit better. Our participants discover little things we didn't know Elluminate could do, which they share with everybody to create a true learning community."

    David McGeary – Instructional Technology Specialist

• elearning Broward

  • "Online education for adults is important because it reaches those who would not be learning otherwise. Almost every student has no other options because of work schedules, transportation needs, and family issues. It serves as a valuable resource for the community. With Elluminate, students don't have to struggle with the technology. They can just absorb the information. If students are low-level learners or at a higher level, no one knows. Elluminate allows students to come together without fear."

    Kimberly Gates – Instructor

• K12 Inc.

  • "In 2005, K12 began using Elluminate Live! as part of a pilot aimed at understanding the applications of this online collaboration tool to the learning environments of our students. Since then we have expanded the program and witnessed usage increases that translate into additional instruction hours provided to our students. The added effect has also been the improved quality of the relationship with students and families. We are preparing students with 21st century skills by providing them with a world-class K12 curriculum, building on their reservoirs of technology knowledge through the use of Elluminate Live! and through direct instructional support by our teachers."

    Guadalupe VanDerPloeg – Instructor Effectiveness Division

• K12 Inc.

  • "Elluminate brings the entire instructional cycle into the picture. Plan! allows our instructional designers and more experienced teachers to create content and present it to novice Elluminate Live! users. In addition, we use Publish! to deliver recorded lesson content to students in a variety of ways. I see applicability for students who need some review not just with audio but with video as well. This changes the entire concept of education in that it doesn't necessarily happen in a single environment, which fits in with the K12 concept of anytime, anywhere education."

    Guadalupe VanDerPloeg – Instructor Effectiveness Division

• EBUS Academy

  • "The amount of experimentation we do with Elluminate Live! is really cool, and we are always open to trying new things. I have a grade 8 special needs student working at a grade 3 or 4 level who participates online with the younger students. Elluminate Live! enables me to group students according to ability rather than by age or grade. It's also more convenient to do diagnostic testing for the province with Elluminate Live! rather than over the phone or traveling to a student's home.

    Jenny Morrison – K-7 Instructor

• EBUS Academy

  • "We use Elluminate Live! every day in one way or another. It's a superior product that encourages students to share work with others, promotes class attendance, provides opportunities to socialize, and motivates students to do their best work. At the same time, we are creating Internet and computer-savvy students and a forward-thinking population. This technology will have far-reaching effects. I believe that what we do now at this level will continue to show benefit in the later grades."

    Stacey Soffel – K-7 Instructor

• Harris County Department of Education

  • "We've had almost 40 districts in our online instructors' training, and they all use Elluminate."

    Jeanie Cole – Manager of Digital Learning and Instructional Technology

• Nova Scotia Community College

  • "Elluminate Live! works beautifully, even in areas where connectivity isn't the best. We've done several presentations with Elluminate Live! and see a significant amount of interest in using it for different purposes. I'm sure we'll come up with a lot of clever ideas, with demand for the product expanding rapidly."

    Mike Kidney – Manager of Educational Technology

• Ohio State University

  • "The instructors for the workshops just love Elluminate Live! and are impressed with the interaction and survey instruments. You could say that some of them are not the most technically savvy, but they are comfortable using the virtual classroom. Overall, using Elluminate Live! has been very positive experience for the instructors as well as the students. Elluminate Live! has enabled us to move from simple online chat to providing a true virtual classroom."
    

    Anand Khurma – Manager of Educational Technology, College of Pharmacy

• African Virtual University

  • "A single-room Elluminate vOffice was perfect for our Dakar office. It's flexible and easy to use, and the participants are very enthusiastic. Our teachers and students love it! We estimate that using Elluminate technology has saved us around USD $9K over our previous platform. In the future, we anticipate upgrading to a multi-room Elluminate Live! virtual classroom."

    Sidiki Traore – Manager, Dakar Regional Office

• eLearn Australia

  • "Elluminate makes us more effective as an organisation, more cohesive as a team, and more accessible to our clients and potential clients. At the same time, it gives us the freedom to travel and be away from the office environment when necessary."

    Chris Sutton – Managing Director

• The Princeton Review

  • "My teachers are so happy, especially those who used to use Wimba. Elluminate facilitates the transition to online teaching and provides the tools and collaborative environment instructors need to be effective online. And our students excel on this platform. It's like meeting face-to-face without going anywhere. Elluminate has blown everyone away."

    Andrea Williams – Online Course Manager

• Baylor University

  • "We determined that Elluminate Live! was the best way to go, especially when faced with the possibility of rolling it out campus-wide. In addition, cost was pretty important to us. When you look at the features versus the cost of Elluminate Live! it's hard to be convinced that there's anything out there better to use."

    Sandy Bennett – Online Teaching and Support Program Manager

• Hopkins Online Academy

  • "When I saw Elluminate Live! in operation I knew this was going to be something our teachers would want to use and that would benefit our students. We just finished a very intensive comparison of 5 different chat/whiteboard environments involving a large group of district technical staff, administrators, and teachers. Elluminate Live! turned out to be the hands-down favorite of everyone involved in the evaluation process."

    Jody Ouradnik – Online Technical Coordinator

• Hopkins Online Academy

  • "We feel that developing relationships between students and teachers are 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 – Online Technical Coordinator

• iSucceed Virtual High School

  • "The biggest joy I get from my job is using Elluminate. It connects me with my students, so I'm not just a teacher out there in cyberspace. Plus, it puts more learning responsibility on the student rather than being teacher directed. Students can tap into their experience and share with others. In general, students who use Elluminate do well in class."

    Carmell Van Patten – Physical/Earth Science Instructor

• iSucceed Virtual High School

  • "Of all the tools available in Elluminate, I think breakout rooms are the most powerful. That's where the kids really get involved with their learning. Breakout rooms change everything from instructor-centered to putting the students in control to work through things on their own."

    Carmell Van Patten – Physical/Earth Science Instructor

• College of Court Reporting

  • "We love Elluminate Publish! It is the perfect tool to provide our students greater access to our class content 24/7. You can't get any better than that!"

    Jeffrey T. Moody – President

• Florida Virtual School

  • "Using Elluminate's technology, our teachers are connecting students from all corners of the state for special guest appearances by industry experts. Students are engaging in collaborative learning exercises on group projects through the virtual classrooms FLVS teachers create with Elluminate's dynamic interactive system. Our vision and goal is to ensure students receive a high-quality education. The big difference for students taking course with FLVS is that they are building a strong set of information and communication literacy skills so essential for greater personal and professional opportunities.

    Florida Virtual School Julie Young – President and CEO

• The Virtual High School

  • "Only Elluminate Live! offered a total solution that met our needs. Because 12% of our teachers use Macs, multiplatform support was particularly important, as was the ability to record classes to accommodate international time zones. This semester, we are conducting an Elluminate Live! pilot for four diverse courses: social studies, computer science, anatomy, and digital geography. The course instructors are located in three different states as well as in Peru, with students participating from around the globe."

    Liz Pape – President and CEO

• Rocky View Virtual School

  • "As Elluminate's first customer, RVVS has been a pioneer in integrating synchronous content into online learning. I don' teach too much any more, but I remember Elluminate LLive! as the high point. Adding real-time interaction to asynchronous online learning brought back the joy of being a teacher again."

    Rocky View Virtual School Todd Keirnan – Principal

• Credenda Virtual High School

  • "As much as possible, I want to replicate a face-to-face experience for these kids because our foremost concern should be about student achievement and outcomes. That regular communication every day is building a network of kids who are feeling engaged. I am one of Elluminate's biggest fans. We would be lost without it in our world. It's absolutely the best thing out there. At CVHS, daily real-time interaction with Elluminate Live! ensures an impressive student completion rate of 83%!"

    Vince Hill – Principal and Director

• Credenda Virtual High School

  • "It boggles my mind how some online schools focus on asynchronous delivery and think Elluminate Live! is just for supplemental use. For example, the Saskatchewan Government Correspondence School is paper-based, asynchronous, and self paced. The current student completion rate is just 23%, a staggeringly low number. In comparison, our student completion rate at CVHS is 83%. We attribute that largely to doing everything synchronously with scheduled classes every day."

    Vince Hill – Principal and Director

• Custom Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia

  • "I think the sky's the limit with Elluminate. We are beginning to draw students from the college environment to the virtual world, and we can also attract the best facilitators from wherever they are located throughout Australia. If we keep investing and growing the course and delivering a quality product, we have the potential to one day become the major provider of this course within Australia."

    Bill Murphy – Professional Development and Training Manager

• Mount Saint Vincent University

  • "At the end of our pilot Women in Technology project using the live virtual classroom, we conducted a student survey. Over 90% of students surveyed said they would take another course using the product, and 100% of IT students agreed that the Elluminate Live! interface is very intuitive, making it easy to use during online classes. In addition, the WIT project was nominated for The Learning Partnership National Technology Innovation Award, one of only eleven nominated in the University/college Division across Canada."

    Robert Farmer – Professor

• Mount Saint Vincent University

  • "In today's changing academic environment, we want to keep current students involved and bring former students back to education. So we are always looking for ways to upgrade and expand the education experience, especially for those who are at a time in life when they can't go back to school full time. Our goal is to provide what we call multi-mode facilitation tools like teleconferencing, television, and Elluminate Live! to enable students to move forward in their careers and in life."

    Robert Farmer – Professor

• University of West Florida

  • "Based on our data, we can clearly state there is no statistical evidence that distance learning students do differently than face-to-face students."

    Raid Amin – Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

• University of Hawaii Manoa College of Education

  • "As someone who has been in the counseling field for 30 years, I feel using cutting edge technology like Elluminate Live! to relate to students in new ways has reinvigorated my career. It's been particularly important for one of my disabled students who lives on Owahu. With Elluminate, he can simply stay in his office to participate, eliminating the need to fly in each Tuesday for class."

    Michael D'Andrea – Professor, Department of Counselor Education

• San Francisco State University

  • "I have used Elluminate for four semesters and currently am using it for three classes. I find Elluminate is really important in the two classes where I am showing a lot of visuals. In my Instructional Graphics class, we are showing, critiquing, and editing images. I am beginning to have a student take over as a moderator because there are so many things going on. In another course, about half the class attends online and are able to follow, contribute, and interact. I definitely recommend Elluminate for those who have hybrid in-class and online participation."

    Dr. Peggy Benton – Professor, Instructional Technologies Department (ITEC)

• Administrator 2.0

  • "With our Admin 2.0 LearnCentral portal, we can provide the interactive tools needed to foster dialogue and discussion, easily share resources, and connect globally with peers and colleagues."

    Jason Borgen – Program Coordinator

• Center for Distance Learning and Innovation

  • "We have been a bit of an aggressive customer for Elluminate, relentless in our demands for the development of additional functionality. The company has implemented many of the ideas contributed by CDLI teachers. I find Elluminate quite forward thinking."

    Maurice Barry – Program Development Specialist

• Nova Scotia Community College

  • "Elluminate Live! does what they say and does it well. Although you'd like to think everyone has high-speed connectivity, many people still use 56K and even 28.8K modems. During our testing, we found that with Elluminate Live! the audio was pristine, regardless of connection speed. Once I completed the installation, we immediately began scheduling sessions. We've used Elluminate Live! locally and even outside of the country. During a session, you wouldn't know if you were next door or 3,000 miles away."

    Jim Simpson – Programmer Analyst

• CCC Confer

  • "I continue to be excited about our relationship with Elluminate and the many tools they bring to the table. It is Elluminate's people, products, and spirit of partnership in providing a cost-effective solution in this time of economic downturn that makes the difference. We've seen tremendous growth in the use of e-conferencing throughout our system, and we are able to accommodate that growth with robust tools, a flexible approach to service and support, and the same high standards that have already made CCC Confer so successful."

    Blaine Morrow – Project Director

• CCC Confer

  • "When we make an education technology decision for an entire system, we almost never know whether it's going to work. Elluminate Live! turned out to be one technology investment that does. It saves an incredible amount of money and time, it's used, and it grows faster than bread mold. No single college could experience the same benefit doing it alone. If you are a community college it's a great investment. If you are a system of colleges, this is a tremendous investment. It's the one to make."

    Blaine Morrow – Project Director

• Universidad de Valencia

  • "The teachers were very satisfied with Elluminate, and the students were delighted. It's a good pedagogical tool that's easy to access, use, and support."

    Maria Dolores Sancerni – Psychology Department Director

• Sunchild E-Learning Community

  • "We were forward looking enough to realize that people on the reserves have an average of a grade 4 education. So at that point, the community made a decision that the education of its people would be apriority. Since we implemented our eLearning model with Elluminate Live! we have graduated more students in the last 3 years than in the last 40."

    Martin Sacher – School Director and Principal

• Sunchild E-Learning Community

  • "Traditional school systems are extremely rigid and automatically spell failure for most First Nation kids. Elluminate Live! allows for flexibility in the delivery of education that a tradition school does not. The archiving allows students to listen to recordings if they can't attend the scheduled class, multiple white boards enable us to handle different levels of students at the same time, and the private chat is important because, in general, First Nation students are shy and hesitate to ask questions in front of the entire class."

    Martin Sacher – School Director and Principal

• Babson College

  • "Elluminate enables faculty to use Elluminate Live! without ever leaving their Blackboard course site. The ease of use in terms of creating a session has grown our faculty self-service use by leaps and bounds! Having the Elluminate session links right in the Blackboard course space also answers the 'Where do I go?' question for students, which helps Babson support a seamless student experience."

    Tova Garcia Duby – Senior Manager, Blended learning Implementation

• Elluminate

  • "Private Community users can incorporate any and all content from the general purpose LearnCentral, define who has access to their content, and decide what, if any, content can be used universally. This is a tremendous advantage for those who want to maintain control over proprietary content and valuable intellectual property."

    Steve Hargadon – Social Learning Consultant

• NYC Special Education District 75

  • "What tends to happen with special education students is that they are often placed in a more passive role in the classroom. This was one of the few times we gave the children an active role to embrace. All three rounds of the debates are held using Elluminate Live! This enables the students to become familiar with the debate format in the non-threatening environment of their own classrooms, providing the confidence they need for the final debate, which also includes an in-person audience and judges."

    Cara Coffina, – Social Studies Literacy Coach

• K12 Inc.

  • "Both the Elluminate Plan! and Publish! Boot Camp and the Professional Development Series received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the teachers.

    Guadalupe Vander Ploeg – Sr. Manager, Teacher Effectiveness

• Tricentia Academy

  • "Using the Elluminate Live! program, we have ability to interact with all the other students and the teachers in class. You're not actually sitting in a room with your peers, so you don't have to feel nervous about speaking French. Our teacher will often put us in breakout rooms to talk over questions and go over subject matter. We help and evaluate each other, becoming better together."

    Aaron – Student

• Governors State University

  • "While I was on active duty in the Army, I enrolled in an online computer technology course at GSU. The difference between this online course and others was that the instructor, Edna Fry, used Elluminate Live! rather than a simple chat room to better interact with the students. The ability to integrate real-time visual aids with interactive audio was extremely helpful in adding depth to the learning experience. Seeing and hearing what the instructor or fellow student was communicating added character and persona to an otherwise distant and indistinctive digital experience."

    Carl Landriault – Student

• Chester County Intermediate Unit

  • We had our hands full with running the events and using the new software. Elluminate's support staff helped with the Webinars, teaching us how to use the tool and coming online during the events to log in attendees, check microphones, and troubleshoot for individual participants. It would have been difficult to handle that many participants our first time out. Our experience with the company has been very positive. They helped us get started so we could have a successful event.

    Gail Kennedy – Supervisor of Education Technology

• K12 Inc.

  • "Learning verification is a struggle for all online education providers, and for K12 it's a necessity. Elluminate Live! is an invaluable tool for online assessment, enabling us to make sure the students are not only learning but are capable of mastering the concepts they have been taught. Today, usage of Elluminate Live! is an integral aspect to the role our teachers play and is a vital tool for real-time instruction and learning verification based on state standardized testing."

    Teresa Scavulli – Teacher Effectiveness Division

• New York State Teacher Centers

  • "Elluminate Publish! V2 brings the power of our Elluminate presentations to all our users on any type of device. This capacity significantly magnifies the effectiveness of our professional development sessions by allowing teachers and staff to review content at the moment of need, effectively creating a just-in-time and just-enough training system. The combination of Elluminate Live! and Elluminate Publish! provides the power of synchronous connections with the advantages of anytime anywhere delivery."

    New York State Teacher Centers Stan Silverman – Technology Chair

• Argyll Centre

  • "Some of our teachers had already experienced Elluminate Live!, so we had a look at it, running the two applications side by side. Once we had a comprehensive demo with several people participating, it became clear that Elluminate Live! was superior in terms of technology, and the reliability was much better. When you set up a session, it just happens, without any technical issues getting in the way. That's when we decided to go with Elluminate Live!"

    Argyll Centre Ray Lautt – Technology Department Head

• Chester County Intermediate Unit

  • "Each of our Webinars has between 30 and 40 attendees from around the state, and we had presenters from other states as well. With Elluminate Live! there were no travel costs for attendees or presenters. So it's very cost-effective to use. This was first time some of our speakers had presented in this medium. One presenter was so impressed that he looked into demonstrating the product to one of his classes at Harvard as another way that technology is used across the world."
    

    Chester County Intermediate Unit Diane Thomson – Technology Support Specialist

• United Benefit Advisors

  • "With Elluminate Live! the demos worked well, there was no mouse latency, and the graphics looked good. With all our tests, including voice over IP at different connection speeds, Elluminate Live! was the most consistent. In short, it worked!"

    Rene Michaels – Vice President of Marketing and Technology Services

• Custom Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia

  • "Elluminate Live! has allowed us to open up our training to a much wider audience. We currently accommodate not only students from all over Australia but also international students who can log into sessions no matter where they are and be a part of our educational process."

    John Park – Western Australia Regional Manager