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Happy 2011 to All Teachers and Students from WiZiQ

We Wish All Teachers and Students a Very Happy New Year!

 Here's a quick overview of all features WiZiQ released in 2010

Welcome New Year 2011

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Virtual Classroom Management Solution for Organizations Updated

Now big and medium size organizations can benefit more with a new feature update in the recently released Virtual classroom solution for organizations. With this update, an administrator can set permissions (allow/disallow) for teachers, so they can schedule, reschedule, cancel the classes, and can also edit class information, like title, description, tags, etc.

How is this feature beneficial?

Though this feature update works with organizations of all sizes, medium and big organizations will benefit more, where the number of teachers are more. The task of managing multiple teacher accounts will be considerably cut down for the administrator, as s/he can allow teachers to manage their own classes.

Here's a snapshot of an administrator's console from where permissions for teachers can be managed:

 

Snapshot of a teacher's admin page for scheduling or editing classes:

Organizations can choose from different Premium plans and subscribe to the plans that best fit their needs.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, 2011!

We wish all teachers and students a Very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and wish you loads of fun, fortune and prosperity for years to come.

Christmas Greetings

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The year 2010 has been very eventful and encouraging for all teachers and WiZiQ, as we see more and more students registering on WiZiQ to fulfill their learning needs. WiZiQ is now empowered by over a million students and 80000 plus teachers, and teaching organizations! Reaching this milestone would not have been possible without the support, feedback, and continuous engagement of teachers. It’s not just the numbers, but also numerous advanced features that are creating a buzz in learning communities across the world, which is bringing in many new teachers and students every day.

Let’s walk through the features and updates that have been introduced so far, starting from 2010, January. You can click on the links below to read detailed updates:

• Virtual Classroom Management Solution for Organizations Updated
• Content management feature for WiZiQ's Moodle module
  
• Rich look-and-feel of Course pages 
• Virtual Classroom Embeds 
• Virtual Classroom Management Solution for Organizations 
• Flexible WiZiQ Premium Plans 
• Auto LearnerConnect
• LearnerConnect and Learning Requests for non-Premium teachers
• Unlimited Recordings for Teachers from the Academia
• Facebook 'Like' feature on WiZiQ
• Follow Widget
• New Virtual Classroom
• Testimonials, Courses, Mail - More Features and Controls for Teachers
• Follow Feature for Teachers - More Reputation, More Leads
• Comment management, Message controlling, and Test statistics
• New communities: Web 2.0 community and the .Net community
• LearnerConnect
• Upgraded Web Conferencing Moodle Module

Once again WiZiQ wishes you merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! It would be great if you can leave your feedback/suggestions the way you always have, which is greatly helping teachers, students and WiZiQ grow together.

WiZiQ Makes Teaching in Moodle More Exciting Now!

Now access content from your own Moodle site in WiZiQ's Virtual Classroom

Here's a very exciting feature update for WiZiQ's Live Class for Moodle module users. Where teachers had to wait for content to upload, and they had to upload the same content every time they held a class for the same topic, it now gets super easy with uploading content in advance and simply using the uploaded content again and again without having to wait for uploading and subsequent file conversion.

How it works

Now you can manage files and folders from your own Moodle site in WiZiQ's Live Class for Moodle module with ease. You can upload a variety of file formats to the content library -  maintain them, organize files in folders, and use them whenever you need those files in your Virtual Classroom sessions. Also, instead of uploading files directly from your personal computer to your Virtual Classroom whenever you hold a session, you can upload the files to your content library much in advance, store them, and use them in all your future live classes. By uploading content to your content library in advance, you are actually saving on file processing time, thus saving your own time. Below are some more details about file formats, and useful tips for managing content:

Here are some screenshots:

Figure 1

A list of folders and some files in the snapshot above.

Figure 2

From the image above, you can see a file organised inside the folder, IIT_JEE. Just click on the image for a magnified view.

Supported file formats:

1. Presentations : ppt, pptx, pps, ppsx
2. Documents : pdf, doc, rtf, docx
3. Spreadsheets : xls, xlsx
4. Video : wav, wms, flv, mov, avi, mpeg, wmv
5. Audio : mp3
6. Flash : swf

Single file size limit :

• Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets : Less than 20 MB
• Audio and Video: 50MB
• Flash: 20 MB
• Each pdf document should be less than 100 pages

With this new feature added, a user can:

• Create and name the folders that are relevant to specific courses
• Upload files in appropriate folders
• Use the content in your live classes from the content library rather than uploading it from your desktop every time
• Delete folders/files when you don't need them anymore

Some tips for managing your content:

• Upload your content well in advance as the built-in software in WiZiQ's Moodle module takes some time to convert your files to Virtual Classroom compatible format
• Create folders and give names that are easy to remember and relevant to the subjects you teach. Naming content appropriately makes your browsing easy.
• Upload as many files as you want (please look at the 'single file size limit' section at the top)

'Schedule Now' option

Along with this new feature there is another update to the 'schedule class' section of WiZiQ's Live Class for Moodle module. If you have to schedule and start a class right away, you can now simply check an empty box that you see right opposite the 'Schedule Now' field.

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