Elluminate Live! was a

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program developed by Elluminate Inc. Elluminate "rented out" virtual rooms or vSpaces where virtual schools and businesses can hold classes and meetings. Elluminate was acquired by

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and renamed to Blackboard Collaborate. Blackboard subsequently deprecated Blackboard Collaborate in favor of Blackboard Collaborate Ultra which is WebRTC-based.

Uses

While Elluminate is primarily designed and used for educational purposes, it is also used by training organizations and corporations.

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, Desire2learn and several other schools and businesses use Elluminate live as part of their curriculum and meetings.

Tools

Elluminate Live! communication tools include integrated Voice over IP and teleconferencing, public and private chat, quizzing and polling, emoticons, and a webcam tool. The software includes several visual tools, including whiteboard, application sharing, file transfer, and web tour. The software also includes a record feature that allows the moderator to record the class for others to watch later as well as a graphing tool, breakout rooms for group work, and timer. The whiteboard supports the uploading of presentations for viewing on the whiteboard for class or meeting.

System requirements

To use Elluminate, the user needs

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by Sun Microsystems. Elluminate Live is designed to be used on all computers, providing they have

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installed. Elluminate is also designed to work on Internet connections that include cable/DSL and 28.8 kbit/s or higher dialup connections.

References

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