Elluminate Plan! and Elluminate Publish! Bundle Focuses on What Happens Before and After Real-time Session

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (June 10, 2008) –

News Facts:

* Elluminate, Inc., is expanding its role the leading vendor for live, online communication, collaboration, and education via the virtual classroom to address the entire instructional cycle of planning, presenting, recording, and publishing.
* The new Elluminate Next> bundle combines new Elluminate Plan!(TM) and recently released Elluminate Publish!(TM) Used with flagship product Elluminate Live! the company’s solutions now support what happens before, during, and after a live online session.
* Elluminate Next> makes its debut at NECC 2008 on June 30 through July 2 in San Antonio, Texas. The company will demo the products in booth #9954. Elluminate Plan! will be available for purchase along with Elluminate Publish! in the Elluminate Next> bundle. A free, 30-day trial version of Elluminate Plan! will be available.
* New Elluminate Plan! enables users to organize and package content and activities before the real-time Elluminate Live! session, automating routine tasks and allowing instructors to focus on delivering material, facilitating interaction, and optimizing the online learning experience.
* 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. Plans can be stored in existing LMS/CMS and on local networks or CD-ROM.
* 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.
* Recently released Elluminate Publish! creates portable, reusable learning content from Elluminate Live! session recordings as industry-standard audio files or standalone multimedia recordings. Elluminate Publish! is available along with Elluminate Plan! in the Elluminate Next> bundle. The product is also available as a free, 30-day trial.
* A wide variety of leading academic institutions have already deployed Elluminate Publish! These include Argyll Center, Athabasca University, College of Court Reporting, 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.

Source: Elluminate