Virtual Classroom Environment

We are pretty proud of our Virtual Classroom Environment and so I thought I would share a little about it.

The classroom environment is hosted on a server farm that allows students to connect to it through their corporate firewalls. Once inside this virtual classroom, students are then able to talk to the instructor, watch the instructor, and connect to our computers which are pre-loaded with the requisite software. The students don't need to disrupt their own computer at all.

By this I mean that if it is a Java development class, all the Java development software is already pre-installed and pre-configured on a a PC in our virtual classroom. The student does not need to install java development software on his own PC.

The important aspect of this is security: even though the student is going through his own PC to connect to ours, we have no visibility into his PC. We can't see what he has installed, read the registry, or anything. His own PC is not accessable to us.

I send you an email containing a link, you click on the link and log in. You hear the instructor, see the instructor, and talk to the instructor. When it's time to do the exercises, the student clicks a button and presto, you are on a computer in the virtual classroom dedicated to you.

The instructor can watch you work just as if he is standing there right at your side.

We think that is pretty cool.