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Elluminate Announces Continued Expansion of LMS/CMS Integrations

Elluminate Bridges Provide Seamless Access to Real-time Virtual Classroom for a Comprehensive eLearning Solution

Fort Lauderdale, Florida — June 20, 2008

News Facts:

Elluminate, Inc., is expanding its role the leading vendor for live, online communication, collaboration, and education with a growing list of Elluminate Bridges that seamlessly integrate flagship product Elluminate Live! with popular learning and course management systems.
Available integrations include Blackboard Learning System, eCollege ClassLive or CMS, Moodle CMS, and Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. An integration initiative with ANGEL Learning is currently underway.
Elluminate Bridges provide single-click access to the interactive virtual classroom from within an academic institution's existing and familiar LMS/CMS environment and enable instructors to add synchronous distance learning and collaboration to course work.
On an organizational level, the integrations allow institutions to leverage existing technology investments, increase enrollment, and improve student outcomes. Elluminate Bridges make the connection between synchronous and asynchronous components, enabling institutions to provide a comprehensive eLearning solution.
Elluminate Bridge integrations install into existing environments quickly and securely, enabling instructors to create, schedule, deliver, and archive Elluminate Live! sessions that provide a wide variety of functionality, including voice over the Internet, high-resolution video, shared whiteboard, application and desktop sharing, web tour, breakout rooms, public and private chat, polling and quizzing, closed captioning and other accessibility options, synchronized notes, user profiles, and multimedia content delivery.
Elluminate Bridge SDK is an open-architecture initiative that provides a comprehensive set of APIs and specifications that allows organizations to develop custom integrations for any LMS, CMS, or portal.

Quotes for Attribution:

"Elluminate enables faculty to use Elluminate Live! without ever leaving their Blackboard course site. The ease of use in terms of creating a sessions has grown our faculty self-service use by leaps and bounds! Having the Elluminate session links right in the Blackboard course space also answers the "Where do I go?" questions for students, which helps Babson support a seamless student experience."

- Tova Garcia Duby, Senior Manager, Blended Learning Implementation, Babson College

"The Elluminate API is flexible and well documented, enabling us to easily integrate the tool. In fact, when we rolled out a new version Elluminate recently, we reengineered our entire custom interface in a single day with the Elluminate Bridge SDK. It was very straightforward, enabling us to extend capability of system based on the needs of the faculty."

- Michael Ciri, Director of IT Services, University of Alaska Southeast

"We are impressed with Elluminate and its ability to bring engagement and interaction to online learning. Moodle users who want to add a synchronous environment will now have a great choice with the seamless integration of Elluminate Live!"

- Bryan Williams, President of Remote-Learner.net, Moodle Integration Partner

"For many organizations today, a successful eLearning solution means a blended approach using both asynchronous and synchronous technology. Through alliances with the world's leading software, hardware, and service providers, Elluminate delivers an ever-expanding set of tools and integrations to support our customers' education initiatives and business strategies now and in the future."

- Maurice Heiblum, President, Elluminate