Live Virtual Classroom Platform For Student & Teachers

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The days of chalk and blackboard are long gone. Notes in copies are dwindling away. It's time to move with the development of the latest technology. Web based application technology and streaming media technology that are developed and advanced daily all around the world. Education has evolved using newer methods or strategies and providing service delivery efficiently.

Virtual classroom: The virtual classroom is the term that can be used to denote any classroom (Institutes, colleges, Private Training Centers etc.) that takes the help of modern web based technology along with streaming media advancements. In this type of platform, the basic mode and method of teaching is same but the difference is the medium and the delivery. In such platform chalks, notes and other traditional learning tools are used more innovatively to deliver training effectively. There is a teacher who presents a topic via the virtual technology platform. He may or may not be present in the class, yet can continue teaching using the presentation and whiteboard and interact with students over interactive audio bridge.

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... classroom provides an easy, comfortable platform for online teaching and immediately creates digital training contents which can be re-used again and again for teaching to multiple people across different locations.
Virtual class room is a modern technology, imparting knowledge to the budding talents of the future. One such solution is provided by a reputed Indian software company, Saral Technomart Pvt. Ltd.(www.saraltechnomart.com ) which is run by a group of senior BITS Pilani graduates. According to Mr. Manish Gupta, Director, Saral Technomart “This platform can help academic institutions to launch their own existing conventional classroom lectures live over low bandwidth connection. One can Create/organize their own virtual classroom platform using Saral Technomart’s IntelliTuts (www.intellituts.com ), at a school, college, Institute or private coaching centre.”

Some common questions/doubts about online lectures:

•What are the main pain-points of an education institution and how does online lectures fit into these challenges?

As rightly pointed by Mr. Manish Gupta, Director, Saral Technomart, in order to scale-up any training programme/organization, there is a need for good trainers who should, typically, possess four key ingredients –

1. Knowledge of the subject.

2. Have control over the language.

3. Connect with the audience at their level and

4. Have the patience and passion to re-run the training over and over without impacting the quality of delivery.


It is a known fact that such training faculties are rare to find and besides it is humanly not possible to not to have burn-out when a same programme is conducted several times for a large set of audience. Using a virtual classroom platform solves this crucial problem/challenge. This is a typical case where a good faculty can reach masses without too much of infrastructure requirements.

•How does online lectures/classes benefit the client/customer?

Besides all the benefits of e-learning, there is another interesting benefit of using virtual classroom tools like IntelliTuts. The trainings conducted over this platform keeps the faculty’s style of delivery intact since the same class is being broadcasted which is being conducted in a conventional classroom format. It is interesting to note that all trainings get recorded on the server making it possible to re-run and re-conduct these sessions multiple times. This reduces the need for multiple faculties or the need to make one faculty travel to various locations in order to conduct trainings. This also increases the speed of delivery of training tremendously, therefore, also very useful for train the trainer kind of programmes.

•How does online virtual classroom lectures benefit the end-customers?

The end-customer being the students who are being impacted through these trainings can draw various benefits out of this methodology. One, they can attend the sessions in a centre near to them without having to travel to far-off locations. With a little bit of research in CA/CS/CWA coaching it was found that more and more students are taking to such lectures since they do not have to travel to major cities just to attend such crucial lectures, since now they attend these sessions virtually from their own home town. Most of the hostels in Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi are only less than 50% occupied because of this phenomenon. The other benefit is that now they can view the sessions over and over to re-visit what was taught providing longevity to the same lecture which otherwise is not available to them at a time convenient to them.

•How does one know the impact and utilization of such online lectures?

A tool like, IntelliTuts (www.intellitus.com ), provides for complete log of the users logging into the system to access the training contents. So the metrics would be in terms of numbers of users accessing the trainings with time duration and number of views thereby providing the much needed reach for any course. The assessment of any given course would reflect the improvement in delivery of the course contents given the fact the users can go through a given training multiple number of times.

•How can e-learning enhance the impact of trainings?

Conduction of lectures using virtual classroom platform like IntelliTuts is the shortest and the fastest way of creating digital learning contents. The lectures conducted through this mode can also be audited for quality of delivery anytime. The trainer can also review his/her session and look to improve the contents by analyzing the doubts/ questions raised by the learners.

•How does a lecture with no presence of faculty in the room can still engage the learners?

Answer to this question was addressed quite differently by Mr. Rajesh Butta, Director, Saral Technomart, which is one of the providers of such solutions, and we tend to agree with him. He says “a serious student can study anywhere under any circumstances while a non-serious student would not be able to grasp anything even when being taught one-to-one by a tutor. You can take the horse to the well but you cannot make him drink water. Also capturing students’ attention is more a factor of the skills of the trainer rather than the platform per se. Technology platform is an enabler with its own limitations and benefits. How one makes best use of it is for the user of the platform to envisage. All technological innovations have pitfalls as well. The user of the technology has to build on the strengths of the platform while circumventing the short-comings.”

Author: Jhon Deny is an author who writes topics related to education especially in online teaching education program. Saral TechnoMart offer Virtual Classroom Software which is highly interactive teaching platform that uses web and video conferencing technology, online teaching, live classes, online learning software, virtual classroom platform for teaching, E-learning solution and more.You can gather more information from http://www.saraltechnomart.com.