Interactive Web Based Delivery
Develop interactive programs through the Learning Management Web and
deliver them to a few participants or thousands over the
Internet/Intranet. The Electronic Instructor's Guide helps
facilitators control interactive delivery with rich, multimedia content
with live audio, and video.
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Conversational Audio Over the Network
The eTutor facilitator can call on any participant in the session or
respond to a call from a participant in the calling queue. All
participants can hear both the facilitator and the caller. Since CADE audio is transmitted at 1.6kb,
even dial-up participants will hear the instructor as clearly as those connected
to a high-speed network. All that is necessary is a connection to the network and a multimedia
PC.
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Push Rich Media Files to Participants
The eTutor Guide can cause a wide range of information to be displayed
on each participant's computer screen: Web pages, PowerPoint slides,
video animation, graphics, documents, spreadsheets... virtually anything
that can be displayed in a browser or Windows Media Player can be shown.
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Facilitator Led Web Tours
The eTutor Facilitator can open web pages from the Instructor's Guide
or simply by entering a URL and take all the participants on a web
tour. Wherever the Facilitator goes, the participants see the same
page.
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Issue More Types of Questions - Including Text, Graphics, and Audio
eTutor allows the eTutor Guide to issue the same types of questions as the
satellite based product: True/False, Yes/No, Multiple Choice, Multiple
selection, Numeric, Essay, or Graphic Image. In addition, participants can respond to questions
by typing sentences or paragraphs. A histogram of Participant
responses can be shown on all the eTutor Desktop screens.eTutor can
also allow the facilitator to record audio questions, solicit recorded
audio responses, or a combination of both! |
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Brainstorming with Virtual Post-It Notes
eTutor can open a brainstorming session in the Participant's Desktop
windows. Participants can post electronic ideas or suggestions and
discuss their reasoning with everyone in the session. Any number of
votes can be given to each participant to rank and assign points to the
various contributions. Results are stored in the database for
further analysis.
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Record an Audio Question
Participants can optionally choose to record and audio question if, for
any reason, the Facilitator can't answer their question live. The
question can be answered by the Facilitator or SME using the Learning
Management Web after the session.
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Bi-Directional Video via IP
Send the eTutor's video to all participants and allow participants with
webcams to send video to the facilitator and all other participants.
Highly compressed video only requires 7kb or bandwidth and even works with
dial-up connections.
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Alternate Full-Screen Video
Should high-quality, full-screen video be desired, eTutor will open a
full sized video window so Participants can see detailed images of what is
being presented. Broadcasts can be encoded in real-time at a variety
of data rates and used for live, interactive Sessions.
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Send an Instant Message or Chat
The Facilitator and Participants can open a chat window at any time to
instant message all people in the eTutor session, individuals, or selected
groups. However, only the Facilitator can open all Participant's
chat windows on command. Each chat session thread can be managed
individually.
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Send E-Mail
In addition to instant messaging, Participants may choose to send an
e-mail or send the message to the participant's Inbox in the Learning
Management Web. This type of message can be sent to all
Participants, individuals, or groups.
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Interactive Whiteboard
The eTutor Guide and Participants can share an interactive whiteboard
an mark up with colors, shapes, text, font sizes, etc. Graphic
images can be displayed behind the whiteboard so it can be marked up.
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Share Applications
The eTutor facilitator can share applications from PCs, Unix/Linux, or
Macs with the participants and each can take control and use the
application.
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Facilitator Peek
The eTutor facilitator can "peek" over the shoulder of any
participant and take control of their display, keyboard, and mouse to show
them how to perform a task if necessary.
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Session Specific Workspace
A Session specific workspace is automatically created for each Session
that can be used to transfer files, documents, or Session materials for
everyone in the Session to access. Both Participants and Hosts can
transfer files to the workspace.
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Team Delivery
An eTutor Session may be hosted by one or more people physically
located in different places anywhere in the world. This allows the
session to be shared by a presenter, instructor, or subject matter expert
and given by only the most knowledgeable people on the Session
topic. There is no limit to the number of hosts in an eTutor
Session.
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Breakout Sessions
The eTutor facilitator can create any number of breakout sessions and
either manually select participants for each session or allow the system
to distribute them randomly into the number of sessions desired.
Leaders can be selected either manually or randomly as well.
Breakout sessions can be focused on a single topic or each session on a
different topic.
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Activity Timer
The eTutor Guide can ask the Participants to engage in a timed
exercise. A countdown clock can be displayed on Participant's
screens so they know how much time remains for their activity. |
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Ad-Hoc Remote PC Controls
eTutor provides the Host with a wide range of capabilities outside of
the Instructor's Guide. They may wish to open a web page on all the
eTutor Desktops, play a rich media file, run a program, or open the audio
controls so the audio levels can be adjusted. The number of function
that can be performed by the Host is virtually unlimited.
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Audio via POTS
For those situations where IP audio is not desired, eTutor can
be connected to the telephone system (POTS). A non-modem device is used at
the facilitator's end that connects the phone system into eTutor.
Participants can call the facilitator with a standard phone and their audio is
incorporated into the session for all to hear.
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Scheduling via MS Outlook™ or the LMW
Developers have a choice when it comes to scheduling an eTutor
session. Sessions may be scheduled in Outlook or in the LMW.
Participants are notified automatically of any change in schedule or if
there is a cancellation.
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Customer Branding
Since eTutor is part of the CADE Learning Management Web, the logos,
colors, graphics, fonts, etc. can be customized to match any customer's appearance.
Different schemes can be applied for different groups or divisions based
on an individual's identification.
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Record Any Session
eTutor Sessions can be recorded and replayed at a later time. An
archive of eTutor sessions is accessible in the Learning Management
Web. Any of these sessions can be rerun so they can be reused over
and over.
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