Benefits

Instant Messaging (IM)
• Sender can choose to ink (Tablet PC) or type the message to be sent to recipient
• Allows one-to-one or one-to-many messaging

Presence Management (PM)
• Enables users to know if their contacts are online, busy or offline

Screen Sharing and Desktop Sharing
• Allows lecturers and students to work on the same application during screen sharing
• Enables students to save lecturer’s comments as image files during screen sharing
• Allows lecturers to provide guidance to students by controlling their learning devices during desktop sharing

Class and group management
• Captures students’ information and divides students into classes and groups
• Allows students to create their personalized groups and add their peers from a centralized database through authorization from their peers

Creating a classroom session
• Allows lecturers to create a classroom session where students can join and access the classroom management utilities

Attendance taking
• Allows lecturers to auto mark attendance when students join the classroom session

Class participation
• Allows lecturers to assign class participation marks so that they can monitor students’ level of participation. This information will be captured per classroom session and can be retrieved for editing purposes

Features

Connection anytime anywhere
• Students can still participate in lectures or group discussion even though they are not in the same physical location

Push Technology
• Information such as class cancellation, examination results can be automatically pushed to students without the need to retrieve manually

Collaboration work through virtual space
• Users are able to work with their peers on the same application through screen sharing
• Lecturers will be able to provide guidance to students by taking control of their learning device and working directly on it through this virtual space

Accessibility to other peers of same focus group
• Users can create their personal profiles which are tailored to education. They will be able to access other users of similar interests to share their knowledge and form virtual focus groups

Cross cultural exchanges across different Universities
• Provides a cost-effective way of conducting student exchange programs across different Universities

Interactive learning
• Provides an interactive way of learning through this virtual community by allowing students to share work, ideas, information and conduct group discussions anytime anywhere

Self-paced Learning
• Ability to save lecturer’s comments allows students to have self-paced learning