ON-LINE COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS ENABLING TRAINING PARTICIPANTS TO CONTACT THE TRAINER (SOUND, VIDEO, SHARED NOTICE BOARD ETC.) – SYNCHRONOUS TRAINING FORMAT
A conference may be joined by multiple users at the same time. The conference moderator and the authorized (by the moderator) participants can:
Speak to the forum using a voice connection and a microphone,
Appear visually using a video camera (e.g. a built-in web camera),
Display the screen of the computer where the on-line conference is running (desktop sharing and remote control),
Initiate the interactive notice board feature enabling authorized users to post their notes and publish documents being interpreted (displayed) in an Internet browser window,
Publish documents in the following file formats: .odt, .ods, .odp .doc, .xls, .pdf, .jpg, png, gif, .ppt, both as multimedia presentations and interactive board posts,
Raising the “virtual hand” to speak up in the discussion,
Submit enquiries,
Chat,
Save the conference history (both the sound and the moderator’s desktop preview) on a server or in *.flv files.