tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51576063216506453892024-03-04T21:36:22.186-08:00CirQlive BlogBlogMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03182399988150407800noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-7761301194598768422022-05-19T08:13:00.011-07:002022-05-19T08:45:56.974-07:00CirQlive MEETS May 2022 Release<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 20.0pt; margin: 20pt 0in 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Improvement
to appointment booking</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Students and course administrators now have a
search feature for appointments. Filtering can optionally be done by date
range, time of day, day of week, and specific teachers.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 20.0pt; margin: 20pt 0in 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Improvements
to course events and recordings</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teachers and course administrators can now
<a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000099893-2-5-sharing-sessions-across-courses" target="_blank">share course events from one course into other courses.</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Allowing for upcoming sessions to be offered in
multiple courses simultaneously.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Past sessions can be shared, which will offer access
to its recordings. This can be used to bring recordings from previous
semesters to the current semester.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 20.0pt; margin: 20pt 0in 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Improvements
to attendance</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teachers and course administrators now have <a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000074213-3-3-accessing-attendance-records" target="_blank">access to MEETS’ conferencing service access log and recording access log.</a> In
other words, all course staff can now view internal attendance records.
Previously, aggregate data built from this information could only be accessed
via usage statistics in MEETS Administration.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in; text-align: left;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Staff can now see when users tried joining sessions
via MEETS. <o:p></o:p></span></li><ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;">Internal attendance can be more accurate than
conferencing service attendance, as it will identify each user correctly,
whereas some conferencing systems allow users to use a different name than
their official one.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Attendance now also includes information regarding
recording viewership. Staff can determine what recordings were accessed,
by whom, and when.</span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Improving access and playback troubleshooting, as
staff can now get information regarding how the user tried
joining/viewing, and which browser software they were using.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All course viewership data can be exported to CSV,
which can be used by popular spreadsheet software:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo2; tab-stops: list 1.0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some compatible applications:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Apache OpenOffice</span></a> Calc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra_Sheets"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Calligra Sheets</span></a>, formerly KSpread. Use <i>Data
-> Encoding: Unicode (UTF-16)</i>, <i>Format -> Delimiter: Tabulator</i>,
<i>Format -> Textquota: "</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnumeric"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Gnumeric</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 1.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice_Calc"><span style="color: #1155cc;">LibreOffice Calc</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.0pt; margin-left: 1.5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 17pt 1.5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -0.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Microsoft Excel</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 17.0pt; margin: 17pt 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Improvement
to usage statistics</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The “at a glance” statistic in MEETS
Administration now includes general information regarding appointment booking
usage.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 20.0pt; margin: 20pt 0in 6pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Improvement
to guest invites</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some clients reported that guest invites and
links that they tried emailing either directly or indirectly were being blocked
by some poor spam filters. These filters incorrectly concluded that the guest
page in MEETS being linked to was offering software downloads, instead of just
being a normal webpage. The format of these links have been slightly
restructured so that these poor spam filters do not block these links due to this
issue. Note: This improvement will not fix other kinds of issues with overly
restrictive or poor spam filtering.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 17.0pt; margin: 17pt 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Conferencing
Services</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 17.0pt; margin: 17pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
addition to all the services we already support, we have added support for
RingCentral Video. If you are interested in using this service, please contact
your CirQlive sales representative.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 17.0pt; margin: 17pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Supported
services now include:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 17pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cisco Webex Events<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cisco Webex Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cisco Webex Trainings<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GoTo Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GoTo Training<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GoTo Webinar<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RingCentral Video<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Verizon BlueJeans<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zoom Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zoom Webinar<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 17.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 17.0pt; margin: 17pt 0in;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CirQlive
MEETS now also has the capability to restrict scheduling with a particular
conferencing service, while still allowing previously scheduled sessions to
occur, and past recordings stored on that service to be viewed. If your MEETS
license includes support for multiple conferencing services, but you’d like to
restrict scheduling with some of them, as you do not wish to use that service
in the future, please contact technical support to make this adjustment.</span></p><p></p>CirQlivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11623012028442762564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-82817358195697323272021-11-17T15:17:00.009-08:002022-05-18T01:41:34.338-07:00CirQlive MEETS November 2021 Release (version 7.3)<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-881c0c7c-7fff-9071-c6ed-668b6e615c4e"><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improved appointment booking</span></h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MEETS now makes it even easier to access all the appointment information, including recordings, meeting IDs, call-in phone numbers, and other access details.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators in courses can now schedule appointment blocks on behalf of a teacher, as well as reserve or cancel booked slots on behalf of a student.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teachers can now restrict booking of a specific slot in an appointment block. They can later choose to open that slot for booking. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teachers and course administrators can now invite guests to an appointment. Teachers can offer access to an appointment’s information, optionally including its recordings.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An appointment can now consist solely of guests. This allows appointments with prospective students, parents, or anyone else who isn’t an official member of the course while keeping the meetings organized in the course’s appointment calendar, and allowing the administrator to see the teacher’s availability to book these appointments on their behalf.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For More information please visit </span><a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000058842-3-1-appointment-booking-in-meets" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000058842-3-1-appointment-booking-in-meets</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New teacher notes system</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A secure note system has been added to allow teachers to keep track of their own notes regarding individual students, organized within each course.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators can choose whether they want their teachers to have access to this feature or not.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information, please visit </span><a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000097944-3-5-documenting-notes-about-students" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000097944-3-5-documenting-notes-about-students</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improved quick launch events</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These by default now include the name of the course, making it easier to correlate these events when looking at administrative statistics or via the web conferencing side of things.</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improved language support</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Added support for German.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MEETS Administration section now also offers translations. Each administrator can set their own personal language preferences.</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improved LDAP Authentication security capabilities</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Configurable security options are now available, including a proof-of-work work-factor, CAPTCHAs, and login throttling.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information on connecting the MEETS platform an LDAP service, please see </span><a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000080886-setting-up-federated-authentication-in-meets" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000080886-setting-up-federated-authentication-in-meets</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Administration features</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators with appropriate access now have an easier time managing the other admins:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They can now directly e-mail other administrators a password reset message.</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators are now automatically emailed when their login information is altered or updated.</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The list of admins now includes their last login time, and all information is sortable, facilitating finding and managing those who have left your organization.</span></p></li></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For More information please visit </span><a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000047899-creating-and-managing-administrators" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000047899-creating-and-managing-administrators</span></a></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MEETS Administration authentication process has been revamped to be friendlier and also offer more capabilities.</span></p></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Web Authentication (hardware keys) is now supported. Including FIDO2, U2F, and platform authenticators like Windows Hello and Apple Touch ID.</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TOTP authentication codes are now supported.</span></p></li><li aria-level="2" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Multi-factor authentication with two or three factors is now available.</span></p></li></ul><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators now have their own easy access menu to change their account settings, view recent login history, and logout other devices of theirs.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Administrators can now set their own theme for MEETS Administration. Prior to this version, the default theme setting affected both MEETS for regular users and MEETS Administration, but only regular MEETS users had the option to use a non-default theme.</span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For more information, please visit </span><a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000097945-personal-settings-for-the-admin-portal" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000097945-personal-settings-for-the-admin-portal</span></a></p><div><br /></div></span>CirQlivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05382746176653170238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-70638197334422348092021-01-07T10:56:00.001-08:002022-05-18T01:41:46.068-07:00CirQlive MEETS January 2021 Release (version 7.2.)The CirQlive Team is happy to update you on some recent product enhancements.<div><br /></div><div><b>Improved Statistics</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Statistics for past events now includes participation information.</li><li>The amount of guest users is now available via statistics.</li></ul></div><b>Support for non-LTI LMSs</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Platform connections can now be created which connect to any website or service. MEETS is no longer limited to LTI-based LMSs, You can now use MEETS and its features with any portal or service within your organization.</li></ul><b>Additional Administrator Settings and Capabilities</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Administrators can disable student access to recordings.</li><li>Teachers and administrators can view course users. Administrators can remove users who no longer belong.</li><li>Whether students are allowed to book slots themselves in the Appointment Booking module is now an administration option.</li><li>Administrators can now disable the main event calendar and event scheduling, enabling offering connections only for older recordings or solely for appointment booking.</li></ul><div><b>Language Support</b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Added support for Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.</li><li>Administrators can set the default site language.</li><li>Users can choose their own language.</li></ul><div><b>Improved Appointment Booking Module</b></div></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Improved Appointment Booking interface.</li><li>Appointment booking blocks/slots can be limited to the current course or deployed site-wide.</li><li>Teachers can book and cancel appointments on behalf of their students.</li></ul></div><div><b>Additional Updates</b></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Users can choose their own theme.</li><li>MEETS has dropped support for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari 8 and 9. Microsoft Internet Explorer users can switch to Microsoft Edge (now available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10). Those on older Safari versions are recommended to upgrade to a newer version. Modern versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are also recommended alternatives.</li><li>TLS 1.3 is now supported.</li></ul><div>Please view the <a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/support/home" target="_blank">CirQlive Manuals</a> for more information regarding using these recent updates. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-76346512935705975662020-03-04T09:00:00.003-08:002022-05-18T01:48:33.437-07:00CirQlive MEETS March Product Update<span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Improved Usage Statistics in the Administration Panel.</strong></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #737373; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #737373; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">You may have noticed the recently updated Usage Statistics in the Administration Panel. The Usage Statistics tab has been significantly redesigned, providing a wide range of detailed statistic views and export capabilities. Utilizing these statistics can assist in improving the performance of online education and training, and track system usage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #737373; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #737373; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Please visit the </span><a href="https://cirqlive.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/8000048792-meets-usage-statistics" style="background-color: white; color: #007e9e; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">CirQlive Knowledge Base</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #737373; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> to learn which statistic views are available. </span>CirQlivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05382746176653170238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-57564797066666066842019-12-24T05:47:00.004-08:002022-05-18T01:42:18.601-07:00CirQlive MEETS December Product Update<ul>
<li><b>Enhanced Authentication User Interface in the Administrator Panel:</b> You may have noticed the improved Authentication UI in the MEETS Administrator Panel. The recently updated Authentication tab easily allows administrators to setup their organization's SAML and LDAP authentication methods with MEETS.
Setting up federated authentication with MEETS enables including secure links in email invites and reminders, allowing users to securely access meetings from their personal inbox and calendars.</li>
<li><b>Reassociate Account option in MEETS:</b> MEETS now allows users to reassociate their web conference account credentials with their user in the LMS. Reassociating an account is needed when changing a user's web conferencing account. Performing this process would previously require CirQlive tech support. This option allows users to easily reassociate their account from within the user's MEETS Account Settings. </li>
<li><b>Improved guest login page:</b> The guest login page has recently been updated, providing an improved experience during the login process. Guests attempting to access web conferencing sessions before the allowed time, will now be presented with a greyed out Join button, indicating it is too early to join. The event guest invite link now offers the option to display event recordings when the session concludes. This enhances the experience for guest users. </li>
<li><b>Cisco Webex and Zoom specific features and fixes:</b> </li>
<ul>
<li>For customers using Webex Events, CirQlive added the capability to mute/unmute attendees upon entry for Webex Events. If your Webex site does not offer you to tailor this option and you are in need for configuring the mute/unmute global setting, please contact CirQlive Client Services for your desired setting. </li>
<li>Due to some recent changes with the Zoom Recording API, some recordings did not appear correctly in MEETS. The CirQlive development team has since released a fix, and Zoom recordings now appear as expected in MEETS. Please contact CirQlive Tech Support for any further questions or issues. </li>
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<li><b>Moodle specific capabilities:</b> Using LTI Custom Parameters, customers using Moodle can create a direct link to another course's MEETS interface, or even to a specific MEETS tab. This allows administrators to use the same MEETS link across several courses, directing users to the same MEETS events. Further, linking to a specific tab, allows more functionality, such as creating a link to a past course's recordings.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-29348173069492431192019-08-15T06:57:00.003-07:002022-05-18T01:42:31.244-07:00CirQlive MEETS August Release (Version 7.1.)<h4>
You asked, we listened.<br />
The CirQlive August update (version 7.1) includes some of the following features for the MEETS integration suite, integrating Cisco Webex, Zoom, GoToMeeting/GoToTraining/GoToWebinar and BlueJeans with Learning Management Systems. </h4>
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Please see our <a href="https://documentation.cirqlive.com/meets.html">manuals</a> and share them with your teaching staff for descriptions of these features, or contact CirQlive Client Services for more information.<br />
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<u><b>Dial-in numbers for Scheduled Sessions:</b></u><br />
<ul>
<li>Support for viewing audio conference phone numbers when using Zoom Meeting and Zoom Webinar. </li>
<li>MEETS already supports viewing phone numbers as well as SIP/H.323 numbers to dial-in from a video endpoint when using Webex Meetings (with supported versions of Webex). When using video endpoints, session recordings will be automatically organized in the course page along with attendance information when recorded with Webex.
</li>
</ul>
<u><b>Recordings:</b></u><br />
<ul>
<li>Share access to recordings using external links which can be set to expire at a specified date.</li>
<li>External links to a recording can be secured and set to require users to authenticate by your organization, or specific membership. MEETS enables you to connect your organization’s SAML 2.0 and LDAPv3 directory services to the platform, enabling this capability. </li>
</ul>
<u><b>Attendance and Statistics:</b></u><br />
<ul>
<li>MEETS now offers APIs for pulling attendance data and aggregate statistics automatically. The API tokens and instructions now appear in the MEETS admin panel. This supplements the existing ability for administrators to view attendance data in the course page and get aggregate statistics in the MEETS admin panel. </li>
</ul>
<u><b>Improvements to the Online Appointments Module:</b></u><br />
<ul>
<li>A new Online Appointment Module has been recently added to MEETS, which can be used for booking virtual office hours, tutoring, counselling and more using your organization’s web conferencing service. </li>
<li>A series of usability improvements have been made to the module, including allowing students to choose the teacher to book an appointment with in an easy manner. </li>
</ul>
<u><b>Guest Invites for Inviting External Attendees:</b></u><br />
<ul>
<li>Guest invites can be e-mailed directly from MEETS itself. These can be used for inviting guests who are not enrolled in a course, for creating public sessions or for placing links to sessions in other platforms. </li>
<li>Guest link access can be set to require authentication by the user (secure links) or not require authentication (public links). MEETS supports connecting to your organization’s SAML 2.0 or LDAP v3 directory services for authenticating users when using secure links. </li>
<li>Guest links can now include access to recordings, and be set to expire at a specified date.</li>
<li>Attendance data captured in MEETS will also include those joining via guest invites.
</li>
</ul>
<u><b>Calendar Integration and Email Reminders:</b></u><br />
<ul>
<li>The ability to sync personal calendars with MEETS has been recently added to MEETS, allowing individual users to see upcoming MEETS sessions in their personal calendar on Android, iOS, Outlook, Google Calendar and other calendaring software. </li>
<li>Upcoming MEETS sessions in personal calendars can now be set to contain a link to join the session directly from the user’s personal calendar. </li>
<li>Email reminders for upcoming sessions and schedule updates can be set to include a link to join the session directly from the reminder email as well. </li>
<li>Link access can be set to require authentication by the user (secure links) or not require authentication (public links). MEETS supports connecting to your organization’s SAML 2.0 or LDAP v3 directory services for authenticating users when using secure links. </li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-32279937485286738292019-02-18T05:00:00.000-08:002019-02-18T05:00:07.752-08:00CirQlive sponsoring EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Feature Sessions - So much to learn!<br />CirQlive is the sponsor of the featured sessions on Wednesday at the <a href="https://events.educause.edu/eli/annual-meeting/2019" target="_blank">EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EDUCAUSELI">@EDUCAUSELI</a> conference in Anaheim, CA this week. All of these sessions at ELI will be packed with great insights and many take-aways. As we looked through each program, we found the clear theme is commitment to helping students succeed. We wouldn’t be in the education business if we didn’t have the collective commitment to seeing people around the globe learn and grow. It’s an exciting time to be a tech company with a behind-the-scenes but an oh-so-important solution for making learning online significantly easier and less cumbersome. We hope you’ll join us at one of the following ELI sessions on Wednesday, Feb. 20.<br /><br /><b>Strategies for Growing a Scalable and Sustainable Learning Analytics Initiative at 9:15 a.m. </b><br />University of Wisconsin-Madison (@UWMadison) Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Steven Cramer (@cramersm), Director of Academic Technology Linda Jorn and Senior Evaluation Consultant Kimberly Arnold (@kimberlyarnold)<br /><br /><b>Helping Faculty Create Different Student Interactions with a New Online Conversation Platform at 10:45 a.m. </b><br />New York University (@nyuniversity) team including Chief Instructional Technology Officer Ben Maddox and Vice Provost William Shirky<br /><br /><b>Three Critical Strategies for Influencing Students’ Success at 11:45 a.m. </b><br />Vice President for Student Affairs at Cal State Fullerton (@csuf) Berenecea Johnson Eanes (@VP_BJEanes), Vice President for Research and Policy at NASPA (@NASPAtweets) Amelia Parnell (@AmeliaParnell) <br /><br /><b>This Mess and We Can Innovate Out of It at 3:15 p.m. </b><br />Director of Academic Technology at the University of Colorado, Denver (@CUDenver) David Thomas<br /><br /><b>The Chief Academic Technology Officer: A Unique Tech Exec at 4:15 p.m.</b><br />Chief Academic Technology Officer at UC Berkeley (@UCBerkeley) Jenn Stringer (@jenn_stringer), Chief Academic Technology Officer at the University of Oregon (@uoregon) Helen Chu (@helenchu)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-15354781725240520122019-02-16T05:00:00.000-08:002019-02-16T05:00:09.860-08:00CirQlive at EDUCAUSE ELI 2019: The Chief Academic Technology Officer at 4:15 p.m. on February 20, 2019Every problem has a different perspective depending on your job and viewpoint. We look forward to hearing Jenn Stringer (<a href="https://twitter.com/@jenn_stringer">@jenn_stringer</a>), the chief academic technology officer at the <a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/">University of California at Berkeley</a> and Helen Chu (<a href="https://twitter.com/@helenchu">@helenchu</a>), the chief academic technology officer for the <a href="https://www.uoregon.edu/">University of Oregon</a>, discuss the results of their survey at the EDUCAUSE ELI (<a href="https://twitter.com/EDUCAUSELI">@EDUCAUSELI</a>) conference in Anaheim on Feb. 20. They surveyed chief academic technology officers and then compared those with results from a recent college CIO survey. How interesting is that!<br /><br />Education isn’t like a finely tuned recipe where the exact measure of ingredients results in the perfect cake every time. The process of education is complicated. Rewarding, yes. But, also complicated. This is why we are so looking forward to Stringer and Chu’s presentation. We expect to learn a lot about how to look at the perspectives of higher education from the academic’s perspective and the IT director’s perspective. At <a href="https://cirqlive.com/">CirQlive</a>, we know that each problem comes with at least two sides. We’ve dedicated ourselves to having answers for college IT departments and faculty, but we can always learn more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-30512570123661428482019-02-15T10:00:00.000-08:002019-02-15T10:00:06.107-08:00EDUCAUSE ELI 2019: We Innovated Ourselves Into This Mess and We Can Innovate Out of It - 3:15 p.m.on February 20, 2019Colleges are changing so quickly these days those institutions that don’t keep up are guaranteed to fall behind. This session at the EDUCAUSE ELI (<a href="https://twitter.com/EDUCAUSELI">@EDUCAUSELI</a>) conference in Anaheim on Feb. 20, featuring David Thomas, the director of academic technology at the <a href="http://www.ucdenver.edu/pages/ucdwelcomepage.aspx">University of Colorado, Denver</a>, will explain how to marshal the latest innovations to help reinvigorate learning, repair budgeting problems, and even retain talent. This is especially interesting to us at <a href="https://cirqlive.com/">CirQlive </a>because we have seen first-hand that innovation is exciting and promises change but--and this is critical--it can’t be an annoying add-on that doesn’t interface well with mission-critical applications like the LMS.<br /><br />CirQlive helps schools put innovation to work, making all platforms run smoothly while trading information seamlessly between different applications. Our aim as technology providers is to make sure that our innovations fit into the framework universities have established.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-11057813146125527982019-02-14T23:00:00.000-08:002019-02-14T23:00:03.672-08:00Three Critical Strategies for Influencing Students’ Success - An EDUCAUSE ELI session CirQlive is sponsoring: 11:45 a.m. on February 20, 2019Succeeding at college is hard for students, especially when they are the first in their family to take higher education classes or if they face some mental health concerns. In this anticipated session, two senior officials will highlight three critical strategies they use to remove barriers that can impair student success. Berenecea Johnson Eanes, the vice president for student affairs at <a href="http://www.fullerton.edu/">Cal State Fullerton</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/@VP_BJEanes">@VP_BJEanes</a>) -- presenting at the EDUCAUSE ELI (<a href="https://twitter.com/EDUCAUSELI">@EDUCAUSELI</a>) conference in Anaheim on Feb. 20 -- will include how her university addresses students’ health and financial capability. Also, Amelia Parnell, the vice president for research and policy at NASPA, (<a href="https://twitter.com/@AmeliaParnell">@AmeliaParnell</a>) will highlight national trends about programming to help students thrive.<br /><br />At CirQlive, we are all about education and removing any barriers that stand between students and success. Sometimes those barriers are because of the technology. That’s exactly why CirQlive came into being. We noticed that scheduling web-conferences was a major pain. The systems wouldn’t work within the LMS so faculty had to copy and paste the link from the web-conference (they scheduled in some other application) into their LMS. Then the students had to either go look in the notes or onto the calendar. There wasn’t any true connection between the two software platforms – it was a major barrier. For a student on the edge already because of a life circumstance or simply busy with work and taking care of family, we have to remove each little hiccup that might cause them to throw up their hands and drop out of school.<br /><br />We are looking forward to learning more strategies to encourage students to succeed. Thank you Cal State Fullerton for presenting at EDUCAUSE!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-35710476353949675842019-02-14T15:14:00.002-08:002019-02-14T15:14:56.508-08:00CirQlive at EDUCAUSE ELI 2019: Sponsoring Session on Strategies for Scalable and Sustainable Learning Analytics: 9:15 a.m. Feb. 20, 2019Learning analytics is one of the hottest trends in higher education today and we can’t wait to hear details of how the <a href="https://www.wisc.edu/">University of Wisconsin-Madison</a> is creating its program and rolling out improvements to benefit both staff and students. The session at the EDUCAUSE ELI (<a href="https://twitter.com/EDUCAUSELI">@EDUCAUSELI</a>) conference in Anaheim will include three officials from the university—Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Steven Cramer (<a href="https://twitter.com/@cramersm">@cramersm</a>), Director of Academic Technology Linda Jorn, and Senior Evaluation Consultant Kimberly Arnold (<a href="https://twitter.com/@kimberlyarnold">@kimberlyarnold</a>)— who will explain how this 44,000-student public university created organization capacity for these changes. At <a href="https://cirqlive.com/">CirQlive</a>, we know colleges are striving to offer both students and staff a seamless system that incorporates everything from face-to-face classes, online learning, and web conferencing. Creating a scalable and sustainable foundation to manage this work results in better security and improved learning for students. This session on scalable learning analytics will give us additional insight about metrics that matter and how best to serve our CirQlive customers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-55242075161002209962019-02-14T14:31:00.001-08:002019-02-14T14:47:55.916-08:00CirQlive sponsoring this EDUCAUSE ELI session: Helping Faculty Create Different Student Interactions with a New Online Conversation Platform at 10:45 a.m. on Feb. 20, 2019No matter how college classes are offered—online, through web conferencing or face-to-face—professors know that creating and sustaining robust discussion is vital to student understanding and engagement. At CirQlive, we specialize in helping universities make these conversations happen across multiple platforms. That’s why we’re so interested to hear what this team from New York University, including Chief Instructional Technology Officer Ben Maddox and Vice Provost William Shirky, is creating. The session will be at the EDUCAUSE ELI (<a href="https://twitter.com/EDUCAUSELI">@EDUCAUSELI</a>) conference in Anaheim on Feb. 20 and will include discussion about how the university’s platform allows instructors to choose different modes of student interaction for each assignment.<br />
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Our platform makes the connection between web-conferencing and the LMS seamless so that busy-work doesn’t get in the way of interaction. In a way <a href="https://cirqlive.com/" target="_blank">CirQlive </a>is reaching toward the same goal as NYU – giving students the best opportunity to learn in the best environment possible. We hope to see you at ELI 2019!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-40401064333661511392018-11-08T06:33:00.002-08:002022-05-18T01:46:06.705-07:00CirQlive launches exciting updates to MEETS (MEETS Version 7)<div>
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CirQlive is happy to announce the launch of MEETS Version 7. With MEETS V7's new features, your live online education will instantly become more effective and efficient than before. We've added new features and tools based on the feedback from our valued customers, and we are dedicated to continually improving the MEETS platform.<br />
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The default date for the update being automatically pushed to your platform is December 30th, 2018. If you would like MEETS V7 updated on an alternative date, need more information, or a demonstration of its new capabilities, please reach out to us at client-services@cirqlive.com and we will be happy to assist. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-15999695385683623922018-07-16T01:37:00.000-07:002018-07-16T05:54:44.174-07:00How do schools reach out to students in the Internet age?How do schools reach out to students in the Internet age? Of course online courses are de rigueur today; universities, high schools, and even lower grades utilized video, live broadcasts, and other communication methods to reach students all over the world. But there’s something missing.
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Are schools taking full advantage of what modern technology has to offer? Are students at home able to participate in class? Can they do online tests? What about that most basic right of kids in the classroom – passing notes and whispering in class? How about the tools teachers need to manage a class? Scheduling? Providing access to recorded classes? Office hours? Tutoring?
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While many of the LMS’s available today have a lot of positive features, they're missing something – the something that can make an online experience as close as possible to being in the classroom. Being a student is about much more than listening to a lecture – and being a teacher is a lot more than looking at a camera. What both teachers and students need is a way to bring the classroom to the home – and to bring the distance student to the classroom.
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That's exactly what we specialize in here at CirQlive. Our flagship product - MEETS (Media-Enhanced Education and Training Suite) - is a service that bridges between the most popular Learning Management Systems and web conferencing tools, allowing teachers to do what they do best: teach. MEETS is currently being used by millions of teachers and students at all educational levels around the world every day.
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Thus our blog. We're in the business of making it easier for teachers to reach students, and for students to be reached by teachers – and we plan to highlight tips and tricks on exactly how that can happen, like giving faculty the ability to create and manage collaborative workspaces, with each other and with students all from the familiar platform of an LMS. While that kind of thing usually requires a great deal of tech expertise – entailing sometimes endless calls to IT staff and often ending up in frustration – CirQlive makes that easy for teachers and administrators alike, thanks to our MEETS system. These are some of the issues we will be talking about in this blog.<br /><br />
Technology offers a vast set of tools that teachers and students can take advantage of – why not use them in the classroom? For many teachers, the idea of online collaboration and conferencing is intimidating; CirQlive makes the connection, collaboration, and management process in LMS almost transparent. With CirQlive doing the heavy lifting, teachers have the opportunity to take advantage of tech to its fullest extent. Stay tuned for some great ideas on how to do that - on this blog and on our social media posts!
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-90839037201190867992016-08-22T02:17:00.001-07:002022-05-18T01:46:52.235-07:00Feature Spotlight: Access Zoom recordings in your Learning Management SystemWith <a href="https://zoom.us/" target="_blank">Zoom</a> being increasingly used for online live learning and recording lectures, instructors will often want to record Zoom video conferencing sessions, allowing students to review, catch up on a missed class or even to produce lecture capture material.<br />
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CirQlive MEETS now includes the ability to easily access and view Zoom recordings within the Learning Management System’s course page, bringing Zoom directly into the online learning environment. Further, Zoom recordings are efficiently organized, displaying the recordings in their appropriate course within the LMS.<br />
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CirQlive MEETS’s recording management capabilities alleviate the need manually share Zoom recording links with students, and enables users to fully utilize Zoom within the learning environment. This feature is included in our <a href="http://www.cirqlive.com/meets-for-zoom" target="_blank">MEETS integration platform</a> for LTI-enabled Learning Management Systems, including Moodle, Blackboard Learn, Canvas and Brightspace by D2L.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-70587676006971981432016-07-06T02:11:00.000-07:002016-07-06T02:12:52.919-07:00Visit CirQlive at Cisco Live 2016 in Vegas<a href="http://www.ciscolive.com/us/">Cisco Live 2016</a> is just a week away, and we’re excited to join the EDU team at Cisco and showcase how Cisco WebEx is propelling online education forward.<br />
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With CirQlive MEETS providing a comprehensive WebEx integration into Learning Management Systems, WebEx has already become an integral part of leading online learning programs in Higher Ed and K-12.<br />
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CirQlive MEETS is a complete solution, which allows you to effectively manage all your WebEx activities, right from your LMS. Whether you would like to schedule WebEx classes, SSO to WebEx events, watch WebEx recordings as a streaming video or view attendance records - all this is now available right from your LMS course page.<br />
<a href="http://blog.cirqlive.com/2016/05/stream-webex-recordings-in-lms.html" target="_blank">MEETS now includes a conversion engine</a> that automatically converts your WebEx recordings from ARF to MP4 format as well. This allows students to easily review WebEx class recordings on portable devices.<br />
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We’re continuously working with our friends and partners at Cisco on adding new features and capabilities, with the aim to enhance online learning experiences worldwide.<br />
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If you plan on being in Las Vegas on July 10-14, come visit the Cisco Campus within the World of Solutions (#109). The Cisco EDU and CirQlive teams are looking forward to welcoming you at the EDU booth and Cisco EDU sessions!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-88716827594801073082016-06-20T02:41:00.000-07:002016-06-20T02:41:14.406-07:00The Battle Of Multiple Learning Management Systems: A Learning Application Developer’s View On LTI This article will address the issue of multiple Learning Management Systems discussing some of the history, effects, challenges, and current usages of the LTI Protocol by IMS Global.<br />
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<b>Winning The Battle Of Multiple Learning Management Systems</b></h2>
<br/>Here is how to win the battle of multiple Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Let us start with part one, the pre-LTI era.<br />
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<b>Part One - The Pre-LTI Era: Background And Challenges </b></h3>
<br/>The Learning Management System for EDU space is very crowded and
there are literally hundreds of other Learning Management Systems which
trickle the EDU space worldwide. However 90% of the market space is
controlled by some of the major players such as BlackBoard, Canvas by
Instructure, Moodle, Pearson Learning Studio, Sakai, and Desire2Learn.
There has also been some consolidation recently with companies like
BlackBoard buying Learning Management Systems such as Angel as well as
several major Moodle Hosting Companies Worldwide.<br />
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<li><b>Challenge #1: Uniqueness of each set of APIs.<br />
</b>Each one of these Learning Management Systems has their own set
of APIs. Each one has a unique interface and course structure.
Integrating with all these Learning Management Systems poses a major
challenge for learning application developers such as ourselves. Each
one of these Learning Management Systems has their own set of APIs. Each
one has a unique interface and course structure. Not only would this
require companies like ourselves to create an application from scratch
for every Learning Management System, users would expect us to maintain
and support our application every time a Learning Management System
provider releases a new version. Companies that would want to integrate
their product and solution into the Learning Management System would
have to spend tremendous time and resources to develop their application
uniquely to each Learning Management System.</li>
<li><b>Challenge #2: Application deployment.<br />
</b>Learning applications often are required to be installed on the
Learning Management System hosting server. In addition to the sometimes
cumbersome installation process, this would create additional
considerations such as security threats, and potential financial
resources to the hosting companies for the approval process. With many
organizations hosting their Learning Management System by using a
Learning Management System hosting company, this would bring another
party to the table, posing an additional hurdle for the learning
application developer when attempting to bring their platform and
solution to the education community.</li>
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<b>Part Two - Solution: Multiple Learning Management Systems Welcome LTI </b></h3>
<br/>LTI stands for <i>Learning Tools Interoperability</i>. It is a
specification developed by IMS Global Learning Consortium and has since
been adopted by almost all EDU Learning Management System including
Blackboard Learn, Moodle, Canvas, D2L and Sakai (check <a href="http://developers.imsglobal.org/catalog.html" target="_blank" title="IMS Certified Product Directory">IMS Certified Product Directory</a> for a comprehensive list).<br />
The concept behind LTI is to establish a standard to easily integrate learning applications with the Learning Management System.<br />
All of the major Learning Management Systems support LTI. This means
that we can now invest all of our resources in developing a quality
solution, and using LTI make it available to almost all of the education
and corporate training community in one go. No need to start from
scratch for every Learning Management System, no need to maintain
multiple applications, no need to watch applications break over and over
again with each new Learning Management System release.<br />
While this may not appear like headline news, this completely changed
the approach when integrating learning applications within Learning
Management Systems. Rather than having to install the learning
application on premise, the application could now be hosted in the
cloud. A few short minutes of entering a URL, key, and secret (specific
LTI terminology) into the Learning Management System administration
panel and you can link to the learning application anywhere in the
Learning Management System. This dramatically simplified the
installation process. Delivering the application as a SaaS service
allows the ability to push updates automatically to the user without a
need to ever bother the Learning Management System hosting company in
the process.<br />
To the user, LTI links appear like any other link in the Learning
Management System course page. The magic starts when the LTI link is
clicked. The LTI link seamlessly connects the user to the learning
application, without ever leaving the Learning Management System.
Further, LTI will send the user’s information, including name and
Learning Management System role to the learning application. Thus, the
learning application can identify whether it has been launched by a
student or teacher and can therefore handle further requests
accordingly.<br />
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<b>Part Three - Development Of LTI Integrations: Technical Considerations</b></h3>
<br/>There are a few things in mind when developing your learning application for LTI.<br />
First, while LTI is a standard in most Learning Management Systems
today, there are some minor technical differences in the ways it has
been implemented across Learning Management Systems (or Tool Consumers
in LTI terms).<br />
Some LTI parameters won’t be supported in all Learning Management
Systems. Additionally, some LTI parameters are optional and might not be
passed to the learning application at the discretion of the Learning
Management System administrator or user. Some roles such as
Administrator or Teaching Assistant are not supported in some Learning
Management Systems. These need to be taken into consideration when
designing the LTI wrapper for your learning application (Tool Provider
in LTI terms), and we do recommend testing your LTI learning Tool with
each Learning Management System.<br />
Secondly, while delivering your learning application as a SaaS
service has many advantages, you should note that this will require the
maintenance of your cloud infrastructure. Among other things, this will
require planning server capacity to take peak usage into consideration,
IT maintenance, uptime guarantees, notifying users when server downtime
is expected, regular backups, and planning server costs.<br />
Lastly, we still need to remember that LTI has its limits. It will
pass some basic information to your learning application, and it can
optionally pass minimal grading data back into the gradebook, but that’s
pretty much it for now. Anything more then that will require some
creative design or will not be possible for now across all the Learning
Management Systems.<br />
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<b>Summary</b></h3>
<br/>LTI has completely changed the Learning Management System integration
landscape. Rather than building a unique solution for each Learning
Management System, learning applications can now be connected with
almost all EDU Learning Management Systems using one standard. With LTI
applications already an integral part of the Learning Management System
experience in many leading online learning programs, these are exciting
times for the community’s learning application developer.<br />
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<i>This article was originally published on <a href="https://elearningindustry.com/">https://elearningindustry.com</a>. You can view it <a href="https://elearningindustry.com/battle-multiple-learning-management-systems-learning-application-developers-view-lti" target="_blank">here</a>.</i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-49279120178727137262016-06-02T05:13:00.000-07:002016-06-02T05:35:47.590-07:00Welcome to the CirQlive Blog<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-ca333ed8-1106-9e8b-6dbf-79271c8e2cdd" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We’re excited to announce our new CirQlive blog, which will give us the opportunity to share our newest developments, zoom in on specific product features, broadcast company activities, and much more...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CirQlive MEETS, has become the go-to platform for integrating the world’s leading web conferencing services with Learning Management Systems</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and is now at the core of leading online learning programs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MEETS has been enhanced with many additional features, delivering a complete web conferencing management platform in leading LMSs such as Moodle, Blackboard Learn, Canvas and Brightspace by D2L. MEETS has also been extended to support additional platforms such as CMSs, and we have delivered additional standalone products to further improve and facilitate the rapid growth of live online learning with web conferencing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The CirQlive Team</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5157606321650645389.post-89741470415492476342016-05-26T04:49:00.000-07:002016-07-06T02:12:04.688-07:00Visit CirQlive in the Cisco Booth @ ISTE 2016<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d25ca89d-ecdf-e085-04df-69cca6cab163" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With <a href="https://conference.iste.org/2016/" target="_blank">ISTE 2016</a> just around the corner, we’re happy to join our friends and partners at Cisco to share what’s new in store for online learning programs using Cisco WebEx. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With <a href="http://www.cirqlive.com/#!meets-for-cisco-webex/curp" target="_blank">CirQlive MEETS</a> providing a comprehensive WebEx integration into Learning Management Systems, WebEx has already become an integral part of leading online learning programs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our latest feature releases includes a conversion engine that automatically converts your WebEx recordings from ARF to MP4, and a <a href="http://blog.cirqlive.com/2016/05/stream-webex-recordings-in-lms.html" target="_blank">web-based video player</a>. This allows students to watch the recording as a streaming video directly within their LMS course page.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d25ca89d-111f-8c9a-44cf-113c82c50e2c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue your path of educational excellence by combining the power of WebEx and CirQlive's integration which enables </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d25ca89d-111f-8c9a-44cf-113c82c50e2c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d25ca89d-1120-8a52-e91f-d17205156e7e" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">efficiency and ease of use directly from within your L<span style="font-family: "arial";">earning Management System.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CirQlive and Cisco at ISTE 2016</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When using WebEx for online learning, instructors will often want to record WebEx classes for students to review, catch up on a missed class or even as lecture capture material.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cirqlive.com/#!meets-for-cisco-webex/curp" target="_blank">CirQlive MEETS</a> now offers a video player module, which can be included in your LMS integration platform. This web-based video player, allows students to watch the recording as a streaming video directly within their LMS course page in a fully automated process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the teacher records to the WebEx cloud, the CirQlive platform grabs the WebEx recording, converts it to MP4, stores it on the CirQlive storage platform and produces the link to the streaming recording in an automated manner - directly to the integration platform sitting in the course page.</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6f5dbb56-e817-0b3f-9095-79f5632dae8c" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CirQlive MEETS’s web-based video player is our newest feature, bringing Cisco WebEx into the online learning environment. This module can be included in our integration platform for Learning Management Systems using the LTI standard by IMS Global, including Moodle, Blackboard Learn, Canvas and Brightspace by D2L.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com