IMS Global Presentation May 5, 2015 Dov Friedman CirQlive

Unified Communication is Moving Forward in EDU ●Better & More Stable Technology ●Competitive pricing from the “big guns” (Cisco, Citrix) for the entire campus to get Web Conferencing- all teachers, students and admin. ●Zoom making aggressive marketing strides in the EDU market ●The need and desire to have students collaborate and learn with each other (UMBC- President)

WebExCitrix OnlineZoom Meeting Center Training Center Event Center GoToMeetingGoToTrainingGoToWebinar Audio dial-in and VoIPYes Real-time desktop, application, document, and web browser sharing Yes Whiteboards, annotation tools Yes Annotation tools Annotation tools, whiteboard on IPad Chat, Q&A (moderated) and polling Chat and instant polling Yes Chat Chat, Polls, Surveys Chat, Q &AChat Breakout sessionsNoYesNo YesNo Join and attend from mobile devices Yes NoYes Recordings To WebEx cloud, proprietary format Locally, proprietary format To the Zoom cloud or locally, MP4 AttendeesUp to Up to 100Up to 200Up to 1000Up to 3000

UC Usages in EDU Now Include: ●Online LIVE interactive synchronous education- CMR/Cloud/Connected Classrooms and Auditoriums ●Office hours ●Student work groups ●LMS integration via LTI makes this all more accessible to the end user

Big Challenge: How To Get Everything to Work Together efficiently. From the school IT department to the end user, and high level usability. ●Tech department: LTI enables easy efficient(most LMSs only require 3 minutes!!) setup. ●Staff training. CirQlive put much effort to make the usage of Web Conferening as easy as ●The unified UI across all LMSs, make it easy in case of LMS change ●SSO/SAML and Authentication- LDAP

Usability ●Using LTI as a gateway and creating a powerful integration platform. ●Multiple Web Conferencing services support (Cisco Meeting Center, Training Center, Event Center. Citrix GoToMeeting GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, Zoom and more on the way) o Cuts out clunky backend of WC platforms o Enables adding important functionality  Scheduling a semester in clicks  organizing attendance records  organizing recordings  file organization  Efficient storage- utilizing solutions like Amazon S3  Personal reminders

Experience on Blackboard Learn

And similar experience on Canvas

and Moodle

Attendance records in a click, with the ability to download to CSV like Excel

Recordings: Accesses the cloud recording both streaming and downloadable, as well as an option to sideload to other storage such as CirQlive, Amazon S3 and Rackspace CloudFiles.

File uploader ●can upload very large files (up to 20 GB!) ●can store locally on CirQlive storage or can sideload to Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles and more ●automatically resumes upload from where is let off, if turned off!

Client Quote: “As an admin, setting up the LTI tool and making it available in Blackboard is painless. The instructions provided by CirQLive are easy to read and follow with helpful illustrations”. Michael Taylor BlackBoard Administrator Nova Southeastern University

Q uestions? Contact me: Dov Friedman VP,