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Easy to use: Whether you're an instructor leading a live, online course or a student attending an on-line class, Communicator™ is easy to learn and utilize and is very affordable. Corporations use WebTrain to provide online instruction internally and externally to increase effectiveness, improve revenue and to reduce costs and overhead. |
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Affordable and Timely: Reduce or eliminate travel and entertainment costs, facilities and course materials. Conduct training at the instructors' and participants' convenience. Evidence is that learning, comprehension and retention is higher with online courses compared to traditional classroom training. |
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Built in course calendar, listings & enrollment: Students can electronically enroll from anywhere in the world, 24x7 on a pay or no pay basis with event and class management automatically looked after by Communicator™. |
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Multiple Language Sessions: With Version 4, participants will be able to join a learning session in the language of their choice (up to 4 concurrent streams at this time) seeing and hearing the course simultaneously with the other participants. |
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Highly interactive and synchronous: Students can speak, ask text questions, raise their hands, answer Yes or No, and request a private chat with the teacher. The teachers can present images, slideshows, web tours, and even multimedia. VoIP can be used at no additional charge to reduce costs. |
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Private sessions: Instructors can privately communicate one-on-one with students or teachers assistants can monitor and assist instructors during the online courses utilizing private chat and private VoIP. |
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Learn, learn, learn: View PowerPoint slide shows, see any document or software application live, take tests via the MessageBoard, run Java applications for on-line tests, watch the WhiteBoard as it emulates a blackboard, or present your own work. Take Web Tours. |
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Course Messageboards: When you have enrolled, you are given access to the course Message Board. Post public or private messages, files or blogs from the instructor or other students, receive tests, study materials, grades, documents and so on. |
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Recorded classes for later playback: If you miss an online course you can access recorded classes for free or for a fee. Standard AVI file for ease of use and customization. |
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No bandwidth restrictions: Excellent quality, even using dial-up connections. |
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Utilize worldwide expertise: Take courses from all parts of the world. Online courses can be taught from that anywhere Internet access is provided. |