Barco weConnect Cloud Application

An ideal solution for classrooms, lecture halls, Active Learning rooms and corporate training facilities. The weConnect classroom cloud application provides a lean-in experience for students through a collection of easy-to-use tools for teachers.

Description

Solutions for higher education and training.

In today’s world, reaching students, including alumni and people studying while working full-time, requires providing them with remote access to the school or training facility. Enabling collaborative learning at the same time, with the same engaging experience for everyone involved, requires Barco’s Collaborative Learning. All connectivity, interactivity and information exchange tools deliver the on-campus experience to the remote students or teachers. This way of teaching attracts the generations of students who have grown up with mobile technology, while the teachers receive a new set of tools with which to create their preferred teaching methods.

Ease of use is a cornerstone of the solution. Teachers want to focus on teaching, not on using the technology. The Barco Collaborative Learning solution provides technology support for learning and teaching with the lowest learning curve for teachers and students alike. The teacher’s user interface is an example of making a lecture in an active learning room a simple experience.

The weConnect classroom cloud application provides a lean-in experience for students through a collection of easy-to-use tools for teachers. Get students to collaborate in groups in an active learning session. Captivate your audience in a traditional or flipped class with a quick poll, a quiz or silent questions. Enable students to assimilate faster with main display capture and note taking.

This web app is part of the Collaborative Learning solution, which delivers campus wide technology support for traditional and new learning methods with a cloud based software offering combined with a very lightweight classroom hardware infrastructure.

Key features:

Collaborate

– Students and teachers can share any local or cloud content among the people in class or with remote student groups.

Captivate

– Create an ad-hoc poll using the Activities button.
– Receive silent questions from students, which they can ask anonymously. Have students vote for the best question asked to get a feeling for what they are struggling to understand. Incorporate the questions raised seamlessly into the lesson.

Assimilate

– Full quality local view of the main classrooms displays makes following a class easy. Students can capture and save this view in their favourite note-taking app.

Usability

– The extremely simple-to-use web-based interfaces are compatible with all laptops, tablets and phones and all major web browsers. The application runs seamlessly with the Barco Collaborative Learning Platform classroom infrastructure for a consistent classroom experience, on and off campus. Teachers have full moderation control over the student content shared within the room.