Elluminate

Michelle Taramasco, Catherine McKenzie, Blaine Morrow

CCC Confer

Catherine McKenzie, Project Monitor, Chancellor's Office
Blaine Morrow, Project Director
Michelle Taramasco, Client Services Manager

How do you provide a common web portal and support system to 2.5 million students, more than 50,000 faculty and staff, and 109 campuses? CCC Confer is unique in its delivery of free e-conferencing services to the world's largest higher education system—California Community Colleges—through a common, automated interface and a highly efficient human support organization.

In 2007, CCC Confer replaced its existing web conferencing tool with Elluminate Live! to take advantage of the virtual classroom's high-quality participant experience, ease of use, ADA compliance, session archiving, and audio capabilities that include VoIP as well as support for a phone bridge and teleconferencing.

Seamlessly integrated into the CCC Confer portal, Elluminate Live! is used to:

Facilitate virtual meeting, training, and tutoring
Provide online student services and library services
Add synchronous content to a wide variety of online classes

"When we make an education technology decision for an entire system, we almost never know whether it's going to work. This is 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 one college could experience the same benefit doing it alone. If you are a college it's a great investment. If you are a system of colleges, this is a tremendous investment."

Elluminate Hero Blaine Morrow

>> View Elluminate Live! recording with Blaine Morrow and Michelle Taramasco.
>> Read Community College Week article about CCC Confer.