We commonly get asked what benefits and advantages of using LearnCube's Virtual Classroom compared to Skype, Google Hangouts or other Web Conferencing tools.
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Business Advantages
- Custom Branding: choose your own logo and colors to match you brand, a more professional solution resulting in higher perception of value (justify charging more)
- Use your own url/domain and integrate with you existing systems or website for a seamless student experience.
- Competitive advantage and point of differentiations to student who are shopping around
- Option for custom design to suite your audience (adults, corporate, teenagers, kids etc)
- Future proof your business, by quickly adapting to the changes and trends (online education revenue is growing at 23% p.a)
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Technical advantages
- Latest technology: html5 works on any modern browser that support WEBRTC (Chrome, FireFox, Opera, including mobile devices)
- No downloads, plugins or Flash: Reduces technical problems and time taken to enter a class
- Automatically adapts video quality to optimize audio on slow connections
- Our whiteboard and content library avoids the need to use screen sharing which uses excessive bandwidth, negatively effects performance and often resulting in choppy, lagged or robotic audio
- Group classes with up to 24 live videos
- Recorded classes
- Request custom functionality or bespoke solution
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Designed specifically for teaching online
- Easy to use & intuitive: has all the functionality you need without the clutter or complexity of tools you don't
- Digital Whiteboard for real-time collaboration with students
- Content library: Optimized for formats teachers already use and familiar with (PDF, MP3 YouTube, Google Drive, Images etc)
- Combine or mix media types, add and MP3 to a PDF for a more fluid learning experience
- Easily share content school wide between all teachers, teachers can also upload the own content, which is stored for future use
- Separate roles for teachers and students, provides teachers with greater class control
- Automatically tracks attendance and time spent in class (Generates attendance records & reports for wages and student billing)
- Teach from anywhere at anytime from any computer with an internet connection
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Ongoing Research and Development
- Funding from the Government of Chile
- Constant focus on best practice for blended and online learning
- New features and upgrades every 3 months
- Inbuilt features specifically for teaching Languages and Maths
- Inbuilt homework, lesson plans and digital content
Read more:
- Benefits of blended learning
- Use case: How we help language schools triple student enrollment periods
- LearnCube's Virtual Classroom wins Wacom's international coding competition
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