What Customers are saying about Elluminate

"Elluminate Live! ® has performed flawlessly. It has enabled us to expand out capabilities without hiring more people. While Elluminate Live! doesn't entirely replace international travel, it certainly complements it. I believe we'll continue to use the tool more and more. Like the Internet and email, we'll soon wonder what we did without it!"

"Today, the hospitality business is not about new business coming in. It's about stealing market share from your competitors. With the tools Elluminate Live! provides, Interstate can use a single session to communicate with hundreds of people to provide direction. We can get the message out to the field fast, so they can make the right decisions."

"Elluminate Live! has proven to be more effective than classroom training by allowing us to train more users, more often without the need to increase our budget and people resources"

"With Elluminate Live!, the demos worked well, there was no mouse latency, and the graphics looked good. With all our tests, including voice over IP at different connection speeds, Elluminate Live! was the most consistent. In short, it worked!"

"Our biggest challenge was that we didn't want the medium, to be a distraction. With Elluminate Live!, the user adaption time is incredibly quick, so members can concentrate on content during training, rather than the technology used to deliver it."

"More than half our schools are in remote locations, where Web-based course delivery is the only solution. In addition, our student population is 80 to 90 percent Native American, who are auditory and visual learners. Because traditional online learning is textual, our number one requirement was to add Voice over IP technology. We evaluated a number of vendors, and Elluminate Live! offered exceptional reliability, even with satellite communications and 56K modems. We spent close to two years testing products. During that time technology advanced, and Elluminate advanced farther than the others. I'm a big fan of Elluminate Live!. I think it will change education."

"All the students were over the moon with Elluminate Live! and kept wanting to do more. They caught on to the technology quickly and really enjoyed it. This has certainly been one of the most memorable and enriching ArchNet collaborations to date. Elluminate Live! enabled us to push the boundaries of what we wanted to do."

"After 18 months of reviewing potential software solutions, we have chosen to work with Elluminate and their Elluminate Live! technology. The Elluminate Live! technology provides our division with the potential to enhance curricular offering to our small high schools, and to encourage and enhance professional collaboration between our teachers, administrators, and Trustees through the bridging of immense distances across our jurisdiction."

"Our students look forward to their Elluminate Live! each week. They love the opportunity to share ideas and information with one another. Not only have their marks improved since we started using Elluminate Live!, but they are more determined to stay on track in their classes so they have something to contribute in class each week."

"Traditionally, rural students in Canada are falling way behind urban students. Our provincial exams show our students are doing as well, if not better, than students experiencing face-to-face learning. While we do use a variety of tools, I can tell you that we would not be as successful without Elluminate Live! The feedback from our students is that they like the product and find it useful."

"Each of our Webinars has between 30 and 40 attendees from around the state, and we had presenters from other states as well. With Elluminate Live!, there were no travel costs for attendees or presenters. So it's very cost-effective to use. This was first time some of our speakers had presented in this medium. One presenter was so impressed that he looked into demonstrating the product to one of his classes at Harvard as another way that technology is used across the world."

"Elluminate Live! is the backbone of our events."

"Elluminate Live! is a true virtual classroom. Implementation was immediate with the convenient hosted environment, and we are already using Elluminate Live! to teach 6 courses for 100 business and education students. Feedback from both instructors and students has been extremely positive."

"When I saw Elluminate Live! in operation I knew this was going to be something our teachers would want to use and that would benefit our students. We just finished a very intensive comparison of 5 different chat/whiteboard environments involving a large group of district technical staff, administrators, and teachers. Elluminate Live! turned out to be the hands-down favorite of everyone involved in the evaluation process."

"We feel that developing relationships between students and teachers are critical to student success in an online environment. The synchronous environment provided by Elluminate Live! allows instructors and students to build these relationships through the use of highly interactive tools—about as close to the experience of being in a real classroom as you can get, and still be doing everything online."

"At IVHS, we understand that you can't entirely plan learning. It happens at different times. Sometimes it's structured and other times it's spontaneous. With Elluminate Live!, we have one more tool in place to ensure that learning will happen in a natural, organic way. We serve students throughout the state of Illinois, regardless of where they live. Every school is different. Elluminate Live! helps us level the playing field for our students, providing them with opportunities for learning that they can't always get in their own schools."

"We schedule a lot of events for one-time users as well as long-term participants. Even those who visit a community a single time for a specific event only have to spend a few minutes with Elluminate Live! in the beginning to feel comfortable using it. For intimate class discussions and relationship development, Elluminate Live! is the best of breed for building a relationship with our ongoing users. We really like it that students can enter a classroom early, using Elluminate Live! as a collaboration tool even before the moderator logs in."

"Elluminate Live! far and away exceeds what others can do. It's a very strong virtual classroom tool. Our users still "ooh and aah" over the product. Anyone who enjoys teaching in a face-to-face classroom can adapt easily to the Elluminate Live! environment."

"We wanted to go beyond the current standard of simply teaching a course via a virtual classroom to providing an environment for peer collaboration, with or without a moderator. Our goal is to integrate tools and build environments around them, providing the ability to create the magic of a live classroom that's easy to use from the beginning. Elluminate Live! allows us to do that."

"Elluminate Live! works beautifully, even in areas where connectivity isn't the best. We've done several presentations with Elluminate Live! and see a significant amount of interest in using it for different purposes. I'm sure we'll come up with a lot of clever ideas, with demand for the product expanding rapidly."

"Elluminate Live! does what they say and does it well. Although you'd like to think everyone has high-speed connectivity, many people still use 56K and even 28.8K modems. During our testing, we found that with Elluminate Live! the audio was pristine, regardless of connection speed. Once I completed the installation, we immediately began scheduling sessions. We've used Elluminate Live! locally and even outside of the country. During a session, you wouldn't know if you were next door or 3,000 miles away."

"Elluminate Live! is a way of connecting in an intuitively friendly environment to create learning opportunities throughout our county and beyond."

"A key capability that we find very valuable is the record and playback feature. It allows students who can't attend the original session to watch the recording asynchronously. It has been a real benefit for the students, many of whom work full-time and require some flexibility to keep current with their studies."

"After reviewing several collaboration software tools, we felt that Elluminate Live! was the most appropriate solution for the support of synchronous events in online distance education environments. In addition, it was the only product that had a well-developed voice over IP component."

"One of my concerns with online learning has been the depersonalization of interaction when using threaded discussions and message boarding. With Elluminate Live!, I can create a sense of community for remote students who go through the entire program together. When I first demonstrated the product, I could feel the participants' excitement about their ability to do the human things that draw us together, like sharing the whiteboard and raising hands. My graduate students are enamored with the potential of Elluminate Live! to shape the process by which we learn."

"Our goal was to be able to share information and improve communication in all the work we do. Specifically, we created a statewide work group to develop a streamlined strategic planning process for every school district. There were two separate occasions where unexpected bad weather made meeting face-to-face impossible. With Elluminate Live!, we were able to have full attendance and participation with 40 people across the commonwealth."

"Elluminate Live! is producing spectacular results as our marks are increasing. Elluminate Live! has changed our methods of instruction and operation."

"Elluminate Live! is a most exciting change in our school. Our teachers are embracing it with enthusiasm. It will dramatically change how we educate our children. Elluminate Live! is a major part of our pitch and it is making a difference."

"This year we decided that a blended environment of asynchronous and synchronous learning would help us open up our workshop to a wider audience, nationally and internationally. We looked at a number of synchronous solutions and determined that Elluminate Live! was the best fit. It doesn't require a phone and works with both PCs and Macs, so it's convenient and cost-effective. As part of the overall learning experience, we think workshop participants will enjoy combining synchronous with asynchronous methods."

"We found great advantage in the Elluminate Live! model. The ability to reach students across Canada and around the World in an online environment, the social and community impact of students meeting in real-time with their teacher and peers, the stability of the virtual classroom in a wide variety of demanding conditions, and its affordability were all reasons we chose Elluminate Live!."

"Elluminate Live! has changed the face of our education. The leap from text to voice interaction is not only great for our students but also a key selling feature when we market St. Paul's Academy online features. Elluminate Live! has provided a reliable and revolutionary teaching alternative for our staff."

"We want to change how technology is used for education. Rather than a regimented, formal situation, we want to promote the use of collaborative groups where kids help each other and teachers are facilitators, not power brokers. Virtual classroom technology will also help us further empower special needs children. We've had nothing but good experiences with Elluminate Live!."

"We were forward looking enough to realize that people on the reserves have an average of a grade 4 education. So at that point, the community made a decision that the education of its people would be apriority. Since we implemented our eLearning model with Elluminate Live!, we have graduated more students in the last 3 years than in the last 40."

"Traditional school systems are extremely rigid and automatically spell failure for most First Nation kids. Elluminate Live! allows for flexibility in the delivery of education that a tradition school does not. The archiving allows students to listen to recordings if they can't attend the scheduled class, multiple white boards enable us to handle different levels of students at the same time, and the private chat is important because, in general, First Nation students are shy and hesitate to ask questions in front of the entire class."

"Elluminate Live! is designed with pedagogy in mind. Its interface and functionality allows UCCP to provide instruction in various ways, including one-on-one tutoring, group lectures, information sessions, or just conversing with students. The tool has been very useful to us."

"Sometimes technology gets in the way of getting work done. Elluminate Live! doesn't waste time because it works. The technology is totally transparent and easy to use. It's an incredible tool for meeting and collaboration. Once we started using Elluminate Live!, our meetings immediately became shorter and more productive."

"This technology has been enthusiastically received by the Fogarty International Training program collaborators we work with in seven countries. Collaborators in Croatia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia are even planning to use Elluminate Live! to conduct their own seminars. The presentations we put together for our group of countries using Elluminate Live! are applicable throughout the world."

"Implementing Elluminate Live! is an unfolding process for us. We've experimented with a mix of possible settings for our classes and seminars, including bringing remote users into our classrooms and offering broadcasts of our seminars. A university class on the use of the Internet in public health communication also provided an opportunity to demonstrate Elluminate Live!, showing our students that communication and collaboration mean more than just static Web pages. That's what's wonderful about Elluminate Live!, the sky's the limit. It's up to the users to figure out the right combination that will achieve the desired outcomes for the largest number of people."

"We think that online teaching has a huge impact on the foreign language and international studies curriculum. So we are looking at ways to expand those offerings using the most effective technology available to provide greater interactivity."