Online Classroom Teaching Software

Online Classrooms for Teaching

Teach Classes and Courses Online

Due to their convenience for both student and professor, coupled with their lush and interactive multi-media learning environment, online classroom courses have become a dominant pillar in academia.  Now is the time for your institution to make the decision to expand your learning mandate offerings.

Why not make in-class lectures available to students online?

Is your college or university considering augmenting online courses with live, professor led classes, to students who could not otherwise attend?

Are you thinking how you could make in-class lectures and seminars available to new and existing students via the web?

Is your college or university expressing the desire to increase accessibility to professors in a manner that is more convenient for the professor AND the students?

Does your college or university need a means to deliver online students a level of scholarship that is in keeping with the reputation of your institution?

With WebTrain, used by the most prestigious intuitions in the world, you will have the tools you need to deliver these challenges, in a LIVE, REAL TIME environment.

Online Classroom Software Features and Benefits:

Your institution only accepts the best, now you can make the best even better with WebTrain.

Online Course Enrollment, Payment and Scheduling

Delivering an educational program is more than teaching.

Outside the online teaching software is where WebTrain strives to save you the most effort; we have constructed a scheduling and enrollment system that provides an abundance of real world useful options to reduce your workload.

When you define a course, our enrollment options simplify the enrollment process for the professor, students and registrar alike.  Enrollment limits can be set, enrollment can be toggled on or off, enrollment confirmations (which are automatically e-mailed to students) can be customized, and our payment system can even deposit enrollment fees directly into your bank account!  And although WebTrain provides a complete enrollment solution, you can choose to use your own enrollment and payment system and effortlessly add students to our enrollment module as required.

Payment processing is also included.  All major credit cards are accepted, as well as PayPal dollars.  And funds can be directly deposited into your bank account.  The e-commerce transactions are real time, all you need is a PayPal vendor account (free).  There are no monthly fees and no extra charges for this feature.  Of course, you don't need to use our payment system, you can use your own manual payment method instead.

Our enrollment system also provides notices of new enrollments to the registrar and the professor, and enrollment management can be limited to the course registrar or additionally granted to the professor.  And since students do not need to setup an account, when they join the live class, they simply provide their enrollment ID to verify themselves.  We've made the entire process smooth, easy and intuitive.

Our solution also includes functions to blast out notices to all enrolled students, invite and remind students about new or upcoming classes, even changing the date or time a class is accomplished with just a few clicks of a mouse.  Your professors, teachers and instructor aids will find our software is very easy to use.

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Interactive Software Teaching Tools

Deliver your lecture with ease using our comprehensive tools.

WebTrain online classrooms offer a wide variety of teaching tools.  Here's just a small sampling of the tools we provide:

A webcam can be used to broadcast the podium speaker, VCR tapes, camcorders or even the entire physical classroom.  A digital writing tablet can be used with our whiteboard tool, with a full compliment of markup features.  A remote mouse pointer can be used to hi-light points to engage and focus your students.  Use a podium or desktop microphone to broadcast the speaker's audio to the entire classroom of virtual participants.  Use our PowerPoint slide show tool to send any slide to students in seconds.  Use our Web Board tool to conduct web tours or push multi-media content.  Use our application sharing and screencasting tools to place students right into a classroom from their own PC--anywhere in the world.

Students can interact in the classroom via text chat or verbally ask questions.  If you let them, the entire class can engage in a full-blown group discussion.  There's even a private audio chat feature that allows the teacher or instructor's aid to talk privately with each student.  Students can also raise their hand, respond to polls, vote Yes or No, use the mark-up tools or be passed the podium for presentation purposes.  And if you just want students to simply watch and listen, you can restrict their interactivity anytime.

It has been found that student's grades often suffer in distance education when they lack a sense of interaction with professors and classmates, a sense of belonging to the institution, and a sense of participation in the online classroom.  It was with these issues in mind that the WebTrain online classroom software was engineered to directly ensure student's success in higher education, and that is why WebTrain's classrooms are regarded as the most interactive virtual teaching environment available today.

Our solution is complete and we've made it easy for you to extend the physical classroom to virtual students located anywhere.  By opening your doors to online students, your institution can enjoy smaller physical class sizes with increased enrollment while improving interaction between professors and students alike.

Teach and interact with your students live - Using the best tools available.

Make In-Class Lectures Available To Students Online

Increase attendance while extending your education reach.

Every so often, a student cannot make it to a class.  They may be sick or hospitalized, maybe their car would not start, or perhaps road conditions prevent them from physically attending a class.

If your organization wishes to extend its reach to students who occasionally have difficulty attending in-class lectures, or if your institution wishes to extend enrollment to students who can never physically attend a class, then consider the benefits provided by using our classroom technology to broadcast in-class lectures, real-time-live via the Internet.

At WebTrain, we've made it easy and low cost to broadcast in-class lectures.  Live and real time, students can optionally interact, ask or answer questions, raise their hand and more.  All you need is an Internet connection, a PC microphone and perhaps a webcam.  With audio and video broadcast live, and with our interactive, online classroom features, it's like being in the classroom without physical presence.

Your organization will benefit by extending it's educational reach to students who might not otherwise enroll.  And students will benefit by receiving the lecture they might otherwise fail to attend.  It's a win-win for everyone using a solution befitting of your college or university's exacting standards.

Broadcast your in-class lectures live - Extend your educational reach today.

Drop-In Online Classrooms - Extend Access to your Educators

Provide off-hour assistance to students for less than you expect.

Is your organization looking for a way to extend access to your educators beyond the time and location constraints of a physical classroom?

If so, you will be pleased to know that WebTrain provides a low cost and effective solution for educators to host live drop-in classrooms.  At WebTrain, hosting a drop-in classroom or meeting of any type is free.  This means that an instructor, professor or teacher or aid can host a drop-in classroom online, from anywhere, for a few hours in the evening or even for the entire day, without consuming any prepaid time or incurring any costs what-so-ever.  Only when a student joins the room is time used.  For example, if a student joins for 7 minutes, then only 7 minutes of time is used.  And since WebTrain includes all features at no additional cost, the cost of hosting a drop-in classroom is negligible.

Drop-in class or homework rooms are the perfect solution for personalizing your educational programs.  And our optional self-locking room feature works great for such environments, when a student drops in, the classroom is locked, preventing others from joining, when they exit, the classroom is unlocked for others to join.

Our free hosting policy also means an instructor, professor or teacher can host practice sessions in the online teaching software without using any time or incurring any additional cost.  They can even create recordings of their session and distribute the AVI file to students for later playback.  Our free hosting policy applies to prepaid time accounts, for seat plans or contracted rate subscription, you can also host drop-in classrooms as much as you like without any extra charge.  At WebTrain, we've made it easy and cost effective for your organization to extend student access to your educators.  And the educators and aids can provide students the understanding they need from the comfort of their desk or home.

Extend student access to your educators - Use our live classroom solution now.

Classroom Message Boards

Perfect for assignments, included at no extra cost.

When a class is scheduled, it can include an optional threaded message board.  When students enroll in a course, they are provided access to it using their enrollment ID.

A classroom message board provides a 24x7 asynchronous means for students to communicate with the professor.  Messages are organized by separate discussions (threaded), and postings can be public or private.

The professor can post grades, results, even homework assignments using the class message board.  And each message posting can include an optional attachment (files, documents, PDF's, etc), perfect for document distribution.

Students can post private replies and attach their papers or homework for later review as well.  For courses, it makes sense to use a classroom message board, postings are immediate and there's no chance of delivery failure (like e-mail).

For everyone's safety, all attachments are virus scanned, if an attachment is found to be infected, it is automatically removed.

Our classroom message boards are convenient, they are available for access 24x7, every day of the year.  Additional features include a membership module with limited access (read only), standard access (read/post), and admin access (read/post/delete) right assignments.  Classroom message boards are provided at no additional cost, they are provided to compliment our complete solution.

Distribute and review homework anytime - Use our online classroom software today.

Crystal Clear Audio for the Professor and Students too

Interact verbally, even privately, with your online students.

WebTrain's VoIP audio is as easy as using a telephone, but with many more features at your fingertips.  Plus, an extra telephone line is NOT required and you don't need to juggle a telephone to type.  Our sound quality is crystal clear, it's as good or better than the telephone, and it's included free, there's no additional cost for our VoIP audio features.

The audio component of Communicator™ offers a variety of different modes--each perfected to address any circumstance that can arise in the classroom.  The instructor is able to deliver a lecture to the entire room using a single microphone; and in order to field questions from the class, the instructor can also pass the microphone to an online student who clicks on the Raise Hand icon.

Students can also ask questions by way of text chat.  Or headsets can be passed out to every student, enabling them to speak at anytime, just like a regular classroom discussion.

Private chatting both in audio and text is possible between the professor and the student, and private chats between students can occur if the professor lets them.

WebTrain's VoIP audio is the FASTEST available, less than 200 ms latency in North America and 300 ms world wide.  Due to our advanced duplex stream mixing optimization techniques, our VoIP audio never lags or gets choppy, even when transferring files, receiving live webcam content or PowerPoint slides.  Our audio works very well on dialup connections, and since our technology provides mixing, you can hear students talk over each other, even when the PC is playing music or a video.

And since our VoIP audio is voice activated, there are no buttons to press, just talk, it's just that easy.  And you can even adjust a student's audio for them, even mute them completely.

Let the professor's voice be heard - Use our VoIP audio for your online classes.

Online Classroom Attendance and Hosting Reports

Analyze attendance using our built in reports.

WebTrain provides a special attendance report for courses that require enrollment.  Each time the instructor hosts a meeting, when a student joins and leaves that online classroom, usage records are retained.  The attendance report uses this information to detail each student's attendance in all class sessions.

An instructor hosting report is also available.  This report details each instance the professor hosted a class, the start time, end time and duration of the meeting, as well as the total number of participants who participated in the class session.

Other reports are also available, detailing each and every minute of time used, purchased, transferred or shared.  At WebTrain, we've made it easy for your institution to account for every minute of meeting time used.

Review classroom attendance anytime - Start managing your online classes today.

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