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Elluminate Live! Academic Edition V8 is the real-time eLearning and web collaboration environment that...

  • Engages more people in more ways
  • Offers rapid return on your technology investment
  • Expands the boundaries of the traditional classroom
  • Adds live interaction to asynchronous distance learning
  • Promotes active learning and improves student performance
  • Fosters social networking and the creation of online communities
  • Ensures a superior user experience, regardless of connection speed
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And that's just the beginning...

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 campus or around the world. So you can enhance learning opportunities for all students, while increasing your reach and your enrollment. You can even develop online communities and add virtual or blended online/onsite events like workshops, seminars, and conferences.

What’s more, Elluminate Live! can also help you create the classroom of tomorrow—today. Expand the boundaries of your physical classroom with remote guest speakers, connect students from other classrooms for combined lessons, and record content for students who miss a class or need help preparing for exams. Present from a tablet PC, load a presentation template in the whiteboard, engage today’s “digital generation” who are used to multitasking, and much more.

With Elluminate Live! you can attract and retain qualified instructors and leverage limited teaching resources. Your instructors can offer virtual office hours for students and enable real-time tutoring and mentoring. Provide professional development to teachers and administrative staff without costly travel or teleconferencing. And you can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your faculty and staff meetings.

Install Elluminate Live! on your server or have it hosted by us. Either way, it's easy to set up, easy to use, and easy to customize with your own courseware. What's more, Elluminate Live! is just as easy to roll out across the enterprise with easy integration into your portal, student system, or LMS/CMS, like Blackboard, eCollege, or Moodle. Our unique flat-rate pricing makes it extremely affordable. So you really can do more for less.
Benefits at a glance
  • Engage more people in more ways
  • Add live, real-time interaction to existing distance learning
  • Extend the boundaries of the physical classroom
  • Provide superior experience, with no learner left behind
  • Increase student participation and improve performance
  • Facilitate small-group interaction
  • Simplify large-group management
  • Foster social networking
  • Connect participants in blended environment
  • Leverage limited teaching resources
  • Attract and retain qualified instructors
  • Reduce travel and teleconferencing costs
  • Facilitate information exchange with online meetings
  • Improve communication and increase productivity
  • Provide professional development for faculty and staff
  • Create interactive content that’s accessible 24/7
  • Conduct large-scale webcasts to reach wide audiences
  • Collaborate in real time, regardless of Internet speed
  • Ensure safe, secure access anywhere, anytime
  • Realize rapid return on investment


Experience the difference
Thousands of students and teachers 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.

Our Collaborative Communications Framework (CCF) ensures all participants are in sync, regardless of Internet connection speed. Our No User Left Behind™ technology means ALL students, even those with disabilities, get a richer, more interactive learning experience, with no lag time or garbled communication. And Elluminate Live! works on multiple platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Solaris, and Linux.

Take the essence of face-to-face learning and apply it to your distance education program. Enjoy real-time, online collaboration tools like full-duplex audio, chat, high-resolution webcam, synchronized notes, application sharing, file transfer, interactive whiteboards, and breakout rooms. Our ESP (Elluminate Sensory Perception) moderator tools make it easy for instructors to create content, conduct presentations, and track and control participation more effectively.

Our academic customers, like Babson College, Broward County Public Schools, DeVry University, Illinois Virtual High School, Johns Hopkins University, Penn State University, and University of California College Prep, tell us they are extremely pleased 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.
Features at a glance
Classroom/Conference Room
  • Superior technical foundation
  • Crystal-clear, full-duplex voice over the Internet
  • Best-in-class experience , with No user left behind™
  • Shared, interactive whiteboard
  • Instant messaging
  • Application sharing
  • Breakout rooms
  • Synchronized notes
  • 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
  • File Transfer, even during recorded sessions
  • Indexed recording and playback
  • Graphing Calculator
  • Math Symbol Library
Rich Media Content Support
  • Live video via high-resolution webcam
  • Multimedia playback
  • Web tour
Management and Usability
  • Advanced, yet easy-to-use, moderator tools
  • Individual bandwidth management
  • Native look and feel for PC and Mac users
  • User profile for each attendee
  • Automatic participant sort
  • Activity timer
  • Announcements
  • Participant status indicators
  • Clickable URLs in chat, whiteboard
  • Centralized user preferences
  • Instant polling
  • Emotion and activity indicators
  • Accelerator keys for easy navigation without a mouse
  • Multiple language translations
  • Single-click session access
  • Easy session creation with email invitations
Accessibility and Security
  • Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris compatible
  • All-bandwidth connectivity
  • Closed Captioning, screen-reader support
  • Automatic reconnection to Internet
  • Maximum security with SSL
Applications at a glance
Teaching
  • Instructor-led courses
  • Student projects, collaboration
  • Recorded sessions
  • Pre-recorded content
  • LMS/CMS integration
  • Live demos/labs via webcam
  • Remote guest lecturers
  • Multiple/multimedia learning activities
  • Combined online and onsite students
  • Home schooling
  • Special education
  • Online communities
Tutoring and Mentoring
  • Virtual office hours
  • One-on-one instructor or peer-based tutoring
  • Mentoring from peers or professionals
Meetings
  • Faculty/staff
  • Administration/operations
  • Parent/teacher
  • Idea sharing/brainstorming
  • Course content review/update
  • Team/project collaboration
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
  • Policies, procedures dissemination
  • Opportunities for teacher communication, discussion, collaboration
Technical Support/Customer Service
  • Internal/external help desk services
  • Remote system/application configuration
  • Application training
  • Troubleshooting/problem diagnosis
Elluminate Live! Academic Edition Features and Key Benefits
Superior technical foundation
  • Data stream optimized to each user's connection speed
  • Communicate, collaborate, educate in real time, regardless of Internet connection speeds, with everyone seeing and hearing the same thing at the same time.

Crystal Clear, full-duplex voice over the Internet
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  • Replace cumbersome teleconferencing and high phone bills.
  • Enable up to 6 participants to talk simultaneously for small group discussions and speaker panels.

Accessibility
  • Multiple streams of closed captioning
  • Screen reader support
  • Scalability of visual content
  • Auditory notifications
  • Native look and feel for PC, Mac users
  • User-controlled interface layout
  • Customized content selection
  • Import of platform colors
  • Enlarged, easier-to-see video
  • Accelerator keys for easy navigation without the mouse
  • Application sharing magnifier
  • Provide access for all students, regardless of location.
  • Enable students with disabilities to participate fully.
  • Save closed captioning transcript along with session recording.
  • Support Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
  • Comply with section 508 of Rehabilitation Act.
  • Conform to World Wide Web (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

User Profiles
  • Create locally stored user profiles that enable each student to share information with others in session.
  • Import/export vCard data.

Shared, Interactive Whiteboard
  • Private and Backup slides
  • Laser pointer
  • Text editor that wraps
  • Clickable URLs
  • Ability to cut/paste graphics
  • Resizable whiteboards
  • Ability to manipulate objects
  • Ability to rearrange/insert slides
  • Server-based
  • Create dynamic content to enhance your courses and meetings.
  • Enable detailed analysis, sharing, collaboration, and discussion.
  • Cut/paste/resize text.
  • Insert live links to websites.
  • Drag/drop images from file folder
  • Import protected files for use in public environment.
  • Import high-resolution presentation slides and animated images.
  • Publish polling results to whiteboard screen for all to view.
  • Save and reload content for later use.
  • Load images faster and easier for more students to make more efficient use of training time.

Application sharing
  • Easy, one-click desktop sharing
  • Preview window so presenters can track what's being shared
  • Conduct hands-on teaching or share lessons with all students.
  • Check students' work with "over-the-shoulder" coaching.
  • Choose between high quality for image sharing and high speed for animation sharing.
  • Share full-screen application while continuing to monitor all session activity.
  • Place snapshot of shared application on whiteboard for discussion and markup.
  • Send keystrokes to remote machines for virtual lab training.

AppSnap™
  • Capture screens from shared applications, and live or recorded video.

File Transfer
  • Transfer files to students, even during recorded playback.

High-resolution webcam video
  • Show live video in four different modes based on quality or frame rate.
  • Change size of video window.
  • Preview/transmit with single click.
  • Give video privilege to one or more selected students or all students.

Multimedia content delivery
  • Play multimedia files for all students
  • Load multimedia files into library.
  • Monitor download to participant and initiate playback.

Synchronized Web Tour
  • Push students to multiple URLs via embedded window.
  • Allow students to interact independently with content in fully functional window.
  • Redirect students to any link—all at the same time.
  • Publish clickable URLs to chat.

Breakout rooms
  • complete with private audio, whiteboard, and application sharing.
  • Focus discussions and presentations among smaller groups.
  • Allow random or assigned distribution of students to breakout groups.
  • Move from room to room to observe.
  • Make select whiteboards available to certain groups or move them around among groups.
  • Conduct polls in individual rooms.

Record and Playback
  • Automatically indexed
  • Easy-to-use playback controls
  • Make sessions available to those who want to review content or missed the live session.
  • Create tutorials, reusable content.
  • Search for specific content.
  • Add manual index, if needed.
  • Suppress duplicate entries.

Clip Art
  • Create shareable clip art collections.

Audio Wizard
  • Test speakers and microphone settings.
  • Allow students to properly adjust speaker and microphone volume.

Multiple Language Translation
  • Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Brazilian Portuguese and Arabic
  • Additional language support as it becomes available
  • Automatically inherit language settings of operating system.
  • Display menus and dialogs in local language.

ESP (Elluminate Sensory Perception) Moderator Tools
  • Attendee list
  • Permission granting
  • Sequenced hand raising
  • Automatic participant sort
  • Participant status indicators
  • Emoticons, activity indicators
  • Activity timer
  • Announcements
  • Instant polling
  • Full-screen presentation mode
  • Slide number tracking
  • Put moderator in control.
  • Receive auditory notification of student entry to session.
  • Know if students are seeing content they should, on slow speed connection, or experiencing Internet delays, so instructor can adjust presentation with minimal disruption.
  • Simplify management of large groups.
  • Control student's microphone volume.
  • Enable/disable audible notification of hand raising.
  • View/share dynamic polling summary results.
  • See who has "stepped out" of a session or who is typing a direct message with activity indicators.
  • Monitor students' understanding and moods during a session with emotion indicators.
  • Focus attention on content.

Cross-platform support
  • Import files onto whiteboard and share applications from PC, Mac, and Sun platforms, including StarOffice and OpenOffice.