e-Shikshaa: Power Features

e-Shikshaa allows you to initiate a meeting, with just a PC & a Web browser.It is quick, efficient and easy to use also for non technicians !

Save on costs: e-Shikshaa comes packed with power features. These include:

• Simplify training-session scheduling and enrollment, easily track registration and attendance.
• Support of e-commerce payment for your courses
• Just need a web browser, no plug-ins required
• Online course creation
• Send messages to all users, users in a specific course, or to an individual, using the internal message box feature.
• Store syllabus and other materials for each course (PowerPoints, PDFs etc.)
• Send assignments directly to instructors

Assessments

Provides one of the most powerful Assessment engines in its class. It gives the instructor a variety of options to create different kinds of tests to assess learners more effectively. Given below are few of its salient features:

Interactive tests: With the provision to add images and various kinds of media files (like movie, sound, flash etc) with each question, the instructors can create highly interactive tests.

Range of Display options: A range of display options are provided to help the faculty create different types of tests. Options like Timed tests, un-timed tests, loading of questions and options for display of answers will help the faculty create different types of tests as required by the course content002

Evaluation: Offers unique options for evaluation. Instructors can create Objective tests that are evaluated automatically by the system itself. The instructor can include even negative marking for evaluation. The instructor can view the answer scripts of the student, allot marks and give a personalized feedback to students. There is also a provision for the creation of offline tests with the facility for recording the marks obtained by the students in these tests

Questions and Answer (Q & A) Bank and Test Paper Bank: Provides a Q & A Bank where all the questions created by the instructor are stored. The system also stores tests created by the instructor in a test paper bank. Through the import feature provided by the system, instructors can create tests rapidly by importing questions from the Q & A Bank or the test paper bank.

• Integrated audio and video conferencing: Real time, multi-point video displays, using up to four windows. This is further integrated with full duplex, voice-over-IP conferencing.

• Application Sharing: You can share just about any Windows application, including your entire desktop, or even a remote server. 

• Reduce travel costs by enabling multiple trainers to collaboratively train from different locations. 

• PowerPoint slides with animation: You can import PowerPoint slides into any event, in real time, with animations intact to deliver engaging presentations. Co-presenters can upload their own PowerPoint presentations on the fly, even after the session has begun.

• Real time feedback: Option for ‘peer-to-peer' interaction. Effective team collaboration through Yes/No polling, instant surveys, laughter / applause, Question & Answer panel and private/public text chat. 

• Whiteboards: Interactive whiteboards can be operated by multiple users and saved for reviewing at a later stage. 

• Web Safari: Allow the session leader to take the participants on a synchronized Web tour. Participants can see the leader's "pointer" and will automatically scroll when the leader scrolls up and down on a Web page. 

• Multimedia: Supports pre-recorded video clips, audio clips, animated GIF’s and other multimedia content including Flash, DHTML, and JavaScript. 

• Optimize your existing infrastructure investments by connecting remote learners with remote computers, applications and simulations during a live training session. 

• Promote active learning by conducting multiple, simultaneous small group, collaborative activities.  Trainers can “walk around the room” and see how each group is doing.