Elluminate Next> Product Bundle, New LMS/CMS Integrations, and Low-cost, Starter Products Provide Industry-leading eLearning Solutions

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (June 09, 2008) –

News Facts:

* Elluminate, Inc., announced today that its role as the leading vendor for live, online communication, collaboration, and education for the academic market has expanded to address the entire instructional cycle of planning, presenting, recording, and publishing.
* The new Elluminate Learning Suite includes Elluminate Live!® and the Elluminate Next> bundle, which combines new ElluminatePlan!(TM) and recently released Elluminate Publish!(TM) All are unique solutions that support what happens before, during, and after a live online session.
* The company’s comprehensive eLearning solution also includes:
o A growing list of Elluminate Bridges that intelligently connect Elluminate offerings to standard commercial and open-source educational learning and course management systems, portals, and directories.
o New entry-level Elluminate vOffice(TM) and Elluminate vClass(TM) products that provide affordable, single-room solutions for 10 to 200 users
* The Elluminate Learning Suite is composed of three products that enable educators to pre-package content and activities ahead of time, deliver these interactive plans online in real time, and provide interactive recordings as post-session portable, reusable learning content.
o Elluminate Live! allows instructors and students to interact and collaborate in real time, adding synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning or combining blended onsite/online learning activities. Elluminate Live! engages more people in more ways to promote active learning and improve student performance.
o Elluminate Plan! and Elluminate Publish! are combined in the Elluminate Next> bundle.
+ New Elluminate Plan! organizes and packages content and activities before the live, online session, automating routine tasks and allowing instructors to focus on delivering material, facilitating interaction, and optimizing the online learning experience.
+ Recently available Elluminate Publish! creates portable, reusable learning content from Elluminate Live! session recordings as industry-standard audio files or standalone multimedia recordings.

Supporting Product Information:

* Unlike other products designed for self-paced exploration, Elluminate Plan! was specifically developed for use in a multi-user, instructor-led, real-time eLearning environment. Instructors or course designers plan content and activities ahead of time. Then during the Elluminate Live! session, each action, like advancing to the next slide, creating breakout rooms, loading and presenting a quiz, web touring, or playing a multimedia file, is triggered with a single click of the next button.
* Elluminate Plan! ensures that content is delivered consistently across multiple sessions by multiple presenters. Institutions can package content and methodologies for real-time delivery by a wider group of instructors to facilitate the use of live eLearning and collaboration system wide. Elluminate Plan! makes its debut at NECC 2008 on June 29 to July 2 in San Antonio, Texas, where it will be available combined with Elluminate Publish! in the Elluminate Next> bundle.
* A wide variety of leading academic institutions have already deployed Elluminate Publish! These include Argyll Center, Athabasca University, Florida Virtual School, Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit, Laval University, the Open University Netherlands, San Jose State University, Southern Cross University, University of Iowa, University of Kansas Medical Center, and Virtual High School.
* A growing list of Elluminate Bridges seamlessly integrate Elluminate Live! with popular learning or course management systems, including Blackboard Learning System – Enterprise, Blackboard Learning System – CE/Vista Enterprise, eCollege, and Moodle CMS. Upcoming integrations include the ANGEL Learning Management Suite. The Elluminate Bridge SDK allows organizations to develop custom integrations into educational portals and academic directories.
* Two fully functional, entry-level products enable deployment of Elluminate Live! in economical, single-room settings. Subscriptions for Elluminate vOffice, a personal meeting room for 10 to 50 simultaneous users, and Elluminate vClass, a classroom for 10 to 200 simultaneous participants, are now available starting at an annual cost of $999. For more information, visit/Products/Elluminate_vSpaces/?id=73/.

Source: Elluminate