With its comprehensive Internet communications technology, LiveTutor offers an impressive suite of products specifically designed for use within the educational community. These products are particularly well suited to meet distance learning requirements at the college and university level. As outlined below, LiveTutor products offer a broad range of features and benefits to students, professors/instructors and administrators alike.

VirtualForum

Through the use of LiveTutor's VirtualForum software, any number of students may attend, see, hear, and participate in live sessions over the Internet. While the professor/instructor maintains control, he or she may invite others from remote locations to participate in a session. In addition to the live video and audio capabilities of LiveTutor's products, professors/instructors may utilize many other teaching tools including PowerPoint presentations, playback of previously recorded video and audio files, and fully interactive application sharing and whiteboard functions. Students in turn may 'raise their hands' electronically using the LiveTutor instant messaging or chat functions; and professors/instructors may then enter into a dialogue with the student while other students see and hear the exchange of ideas.

Course and Lecture Materials

Professors/Instructors may allow students direct access to download notes, handouts and other lecture materials, thus avoiding the time and cost of copying and physically distributing such materials. If there is a cost associated with certain materials, that cost may be billed directly to the student's school or credit card account. Similarly, LiveTutor products would provide links to enable students to order and pay for course costs, texts and other materials directly from the campus bookstore or related online stores through the use of LiveTutor’s SalesTable feature.

VirtualForum Archives

All sessions offered using LiveTutor's VirtualForum software may be archived for later retrieval and review. This important function enables students who are unable to attend the live session to view the entire lecture at a later time. In addition, students who simply want to see and hear the lecture again or to review it prior to an examination have the ability to do so. From an administrative standpoint, such archived lectures may be used effectively for both training and evaluation purposes.

Instructor Office Hours, Study Groups and Tutoring Sessions

LiveTutor's VirtualForum software enables professors/instructors to post their office hours and students may then schedule and meet with professors/instructors in live, real time sessions over the internet. Similarly, students can schedule and participate in study group sessions over the Internet with fully collaborative video, audio, chat, whiteboard and application sharing. Such study sessions may include as many students as would like to meet together, regardless of their location. In the same manner, students who desire individual assistance can use VirtualForum to review listings of tutors with expertise in the areas of interest and then schedule, meet with, and even pay those tutors online for their assistance.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Through LiveTutor's VirtualForum database, a full record is maintained of each student's attendance, participation, access to session materials and archived lectures, as well as participation in study group and tutoring sessions. With this feature, a professor/instructor may monitor each student's participation in many different aspects of the course.

Instructors Here, Students There, Benefits Everywhere

LiveTutor’s VirtualForum software offers a full range of knowledge delivery and management solutions to members of the educational community. College and university administrators gain the ability to increase dramatically both enrollment and tuition revenues without the need to incur costly additions to physical facilities; professors/instructors are able to reach a broader and more diverse student population without the constraints of classroom size and geographic location; and, similarly, students have the freedom to enroll and participate in live sessions without having to deal with the frustrations of enrollment caps, filled classrooms or other scheduling and travel obstacles. In short, LiveTutor's VirtualForum products offer a greatly expanded range of options, flexibility and functionality in facilitating and enriching the educational process.