Wimba Information

Wimba Live Classroom
Live Classroom supports audio, video, application sharing, and content display, enabling instructors to add vitally important elements of interaction. Instructors can personalize their online courses by holding live, online classes, office hours, guest lectures, webcasts, and meetings.

Live Classroom allows faculty and students to build relationships by combining state-of-the-art interactive technologies such as voice, video, application sharing, polling, and whiteboarding, with traditional best practices of instruction.

Wimba Voice Tools
With the web-based voice tools you will be able to facilitate and promote vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment. In addition, it allows you to increase the interaction and student engagement level of any online class by allowing faculty and students to easily embed vocal interactions into the page level of their CMS.

Features of Voice Tools include:
• Practice a language by actually speaking it with someone. This real-time voice conferencing feature allows for live oral language instruction, small group role-plays, and other live, conversation-based tasks. Additionally, instructors can conduct lectures, conferences, discussions and debates; keep virtual office hours for conversations with students, and even record discussions for future playback.

• Threaded Voice Boards - Speak and read a language at the same time, or simply create threaded voice discussions about any subject. Great for brainstorming and collaborating on almost any topic in any language, instructors and students can post vocal messages with accompanying text into our voice-based message boards.

• Discuss multiple subjects at once by dividing new topics into their own threads. This is one of the best ways to practice all aspects of a new language.

• Embedded Voice within Course Pages -Easily add listening exercises and voice messages into any CMS course page. Voice Tools incorporate a small recorder and playback feature that can be placed within any CMS page allowing instructors to verbally explain complex ideas, post assignments, or simply highlight important ideas that will be discussed in upcoming lessons.

• Voice-Enabled E-Mail - Students and instructors can send vocal email messages to anyone, and recipients simply reply by sending their own voice email. Voice emails are particularly useful for role-playing activities and question and answer sessions. And to ensure security, instructors have full control of the distribution of every email.

• Integrate into your Course Management System - The voice tools integrate with course management systems so they have the same look and feel as other tools, significantly reducing barriers of adoption and minimizing learning curves. Voice tools appear within your CMS like any other resource.