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Application
Sharing in Meeting Places Overview (FLASH)
See how you can use Application Sharing in your
meetings...
Participant's
Guide for Web Meeting Places (PDF)
Step-by-step instructions that tell audience participants
how to share presentation controls with the presenter in a Web Meeting
Place.

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ProjCom utilizes the extensive value of PlaceWare to
facilitate our on-line training and document review requirements.
Content Features &
Functions
PlaceWare eLearning allows instructors and learners to view, access and
interact with a variety of content forms in a variety of ways. PlaceWare
eLearning offers:
- Multiple Dynamic Content Capabilities—incorporate
multiple content types and dynamic media within learning
events—including PowerPoint slides—enabling instructors to
incorporate polling, collaborative web tours, and other dynamic
content into the presentation.
- Anytime PowerPoint Import—upload
PowerPoint presentations prior to the learning event and even on the
fly, after the session has begun.
- Application & Document Sharing
Without Learning Plug-ins—show anything and share any
application (even your entire desktop) with learners during the
session without software plug-ins.
- Controlled Web Touring—lead
tours of websites enabling learners to view every aspect of the
instructor's navigation through the target website.
- Collaborative Web Touring—allow
learners to individually navigate and interact with live websites to
review information, interact with web-based simulations,
assessments, or surveys, and view flash movies and recorded video.
Throughout the collaborative web tour, instructors maintain the
ability to return learners to the training session.
- Collaborative Text Slides—capture
notes, brainstorms, or other text content during the learning event
for all participants to view. Text can be copied and pasted to and
from other applications.
- Snapshots Image Capturing—use
PlaceWare Snapshots to capture an image of any visual and
incorporate it directly into the active slide set where it can then
be displayed and annotated.
- Collaborative Whiteboards—graphically
express ideas and concepts within the live learning environment with
PlaceWare's multi-participate, interactive whiteboard capability.
Each participant receives a unique "virtual pen" color to
distinguish the contributions of different individuals.
- Flash and Recorded Video—incorporate
recorded video into your training delivery-enhancing the quality and
dynamic nature of the overall learning experience.
- Instructor's Ability to Preview
Content—preview any uploaded content during a live learning
event, enabling them to "look ahead" in the learning
delivery to prepare for discussion topics on future slides. Review
other uploaded slide sets, and content from one slide set can be
copied into others. All preview activities are visible to the
individual instructor, but not to learners or other instructors.
Interactive Learning
Features & Functions
PlaceWare eLearning allows instructors and learners to interact with
information and each other. PlaceWare eLearning offers:
- Learner Mood Indicators & Live
Feedback—enable learners to communicate their virtual
"moods", communicating laughter, comprehension, applause,
questions, "hand raising", and more to instructors.
- Learner Handouts—provide
learners with copies of active slides during training, offering
learners the presentation, pre-session note stems, supporting
resources, and even homework assignments.
- Live Text Chat—enable
learners to participate in an interactive one-on-one or group chat
session during a live training delivery. Instructors maintain a
separate, always on, chat capability.
- Text-Based Questions and Answers
Moderation—enable learners to privately post questions to
instructors or content experts who may then choose to respond
privately (to the learner), publicly (to the entire audience), or in
a one-on-one chat session. PlaceWare automatically saves all
questions and answers in a log viewable by instructors.
- Learner Polling—find out
what your learners really think with polling slides that allow for
Yes/No, True/False, and Multiple Choice questions. These slides can
be created prior to the learning delivery or on the fly during a
live session. All polling information is maintained in the database
for post delivery reporting.
- Assessment and Survey Tool Support—test
online with web-based testing tools where learners are directed to a
web-based examination or survey. Learner responses are captured
within the testing tool and (depending on the tool) can be graded
and uploaded into your Learning Management System (LMS).
On Demand Learning Features
& Functions
PlaceWare eLearning allows instructors and learners to view, access and
interact with a variety of content forms in a variety of ways. PlaceWare
eLearning offers:
- Full Learning Event Recording
Capabilities—record all aspects of the live learning event
for the creation of on-demand learning events. Replay captures View
Sharing, Application Sharing, PowerPoint slides with annotations,
Polling, Web Slides, White Boarding, and other functionalities in
addition to the conference audio.
- Indexed On-Demand or Asynchronous
Learning Events—slide and audio content in each PlaceWare
Replay recording is indexed, enabling just in time learning by
allowing the learner to move forward or backwards within the
recording simply by clicking on the title of the slide.
- Easy Learner Access to On-Demand
Recordings—PlaceWare Replay sessions are streamed directly
to a learner's Windows Media Player from the PlaceWare streaming
server, thus never requiring a company to manage the on-demand
session.
- Downloading and Editing of Replay
On-Demand Content—download the recorded session for editing
with third party tools, or distribution via CD Rom or on a separate
streaming server.
PlaceWare Technology Benefits
PlaceWare's premier technology gives instructors and learners piece of
mind. The benefits of these systems include:
- Content Pre-Caching for Bandwidth
Efficiency—PlaceWare automatically pre-caches slide content
within each learner's browser cache, providing an instantaneous
slide transition, regardless of his or her bandwidth connection and
thus enabling learners on the slowest connections to participate in
a high quality learning delivery.
- Minimal Learner Technical
Requirements—PlaceWare's virtual classroom solution
requires absolutely no learner software installations or
"plug-ins" to enable the to learner participate quickly
and conveniently in the learning event.
- Easy Deployment—PlaceWare's
hosted service enables a learning organization to begin training
delivery within 48 hours of purchasing PlaceWare services without
ever needing additional hardware, software, or installation
services.
- Firewall Transparency—PlaceWare's
patented firewall traversal technology enables instructors to
reliably conduct learning events with participants who exist both
inside and outside of the corporate firewall.
- Integration and Customization—PlaceWare's
API set enables full, standards-based integration into leading LMS
platforms, offering an easy to manage, total learning solution.
- Branding and Customization—PlaceWare's
web-based user interface can be easily customized to reflect the
branding of our client's needs.
- Learning Event Reporting Information—PlaceWare
offers in depth learning event reporting capabilities enabling
instructors to easily retrieve both attendance (arrival time,
duration, etc.) and polling information (individual polling
responses and aggregate polling results).
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