Moodle with Integrated Web Conferencing
Groopex Integrated Conferencing for Moodle seamlessly integrates Cisco's WebEx and Microsoft's Live Meeting within the Moodle environment, providing many benefits listed below. Groopex's solution also provides additional functions such as automatic archiving of recorded classes and class participant statistics, producing a complete online synchronous learning solution.
Using Moodle and WebEx without Groopex:
Utilizing independent Moodle and WebEx or Live Meeting platforms require users to access two separate environments. As a result, the implementation of web conferencing as an online learning tool is time consuming, inefficient, not user friendly and prone to human mistakes.
Moreover, recorded lessons are not automatically organized in the archive, hindering the accessibility and usability of the archive.
Additionally, from an administrative point of view, the institution has to manage and supervise the use of these two platforms individually. This demands more man-hours and is liable to human error.
Proposed solution - Groopex GIC:
Seamlessly integrating WebEx and Live Meeting into Moodle provides administration, teachers and students complete web conferencing functionality without leaving the Moodle environment. This solution saves time, allows efficient organization of the learning system and prevents errors.
In addition, an archive with recorded lessons is accessible to both teachers and students directly from Moodle. The archive is automatically arranged by courses creating a usable and well-organized database.
The Groopex package also records participant statistics such as class entry and exit time of each user, contributing to the institution's monitoring capabilities.
Groopex offers teachers and management:
- Web Conferencing scheduling directly from Moodle by automatically synchronizing classes in Moodle with WebEx and Live Meeting. This synchronization saves time and contributes to the efficient management of the eb conferencing infrastructure.
- Web conference scheduling with a single click (rather than 16 clicks per lesson via the WebEx platform). An entire semester can be scheduled with a single click.
- One-click login to WebEx and Live Meeting classes from Moodle.
- Automatic host rights in WebEx and Live Meeting by recognizing teachers, and automatic identification of students in the web conferencing environment with the names stored in Moodle.
- Option available to enter class as a student, allowing the teacher to see the lesson from the student's perspective.
- Archive of recorded classes in the corresponding Moodle course.
- Scheduled classes appear in the Moodle calendar.
- Export schedule to Apple iCal, Outlook, Mozilla Lightning and more calendars using the Moodle calendar.
Groopex offers students:
- Efficient and easy access to one complete learning system which includes learning materials, archives and class schedule.
- One-click login to WebEx and Live Meeting classes from Moodle, without having to enter credentials every time.
- Error prevention. For instance, when rescheduling classes directly via WebEx or Live Meeting, students will receive several invitations and may enter the wrong lesson. Using Groopex, rescheduled classes are automatically updated in Moodle and students will enter the correct class.
- Archive of recorded classes in the corresponding Moodle course.
- Students' names are automatically transferred from Moodle and displayed in the web conferencing environment.
- Scheduled classes appear in the Moodle calendar.
- Export schedule to Apple iCal, Outlook, Mozilla Lightning and more calendars using the Moodle calendar.