Products - Meet & Confer
Meet with faculty, staff, and students in real time, in groups of two or even hundreds—with just a PC, a telephone and an Internet connection. Meet & Confer is the California Community Colleges system’s FREE Web and phone-based collaboration service.
You can conduct your meetings, trainings, classes and events at a moment's notice, anytime, anywhere without traveling. Share documents, presentations, poll your audience and use a white board for taking notes. There are public and private chat features and the ability to archive the entire meeting for later playback.
Meet & Confer has a full array of high-touch client assistance, including technical support, instructor-led and self-paced training, and hands-on support for any meeting or event.
Get together with your colleagues across the campus or across the State; with Meet & Confer.
Benefits
- Create Community
Create a sense of community with your colleagues, staff and students who might not otherwise be able to meet with one another. - Offer Anytime Access
(Live Meeting) Communicating and collaborating online and in real time means you don't need to leave your desk to conduct effective meetings with others. Save time and money by meeting online and avoid all the hassles of travel.
- Offer live classes, office hours, and group discussions at times that are convenient for staff, faculty and students not just when the physical facilities are available.
- Deliver effective online presentations
With Meet & Confer, you can deliver remote presentations with the same effectiveness as being in person. You will have the ability to receive real-time feedback from your audience, you can successfully get your point across without having to be in the same room.
Features and Functionality
- Public & private text chat
Some people are more comfortable writing than speaking, and our chat messaging allows anyone to communicate textually either privately or to the whole group. - Flexible content area
Show content such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel, HTML, webpages, images, , PDF, Flash, CMS pages, and more. - Electronic whiteboard and polls, quizzes, and surveys
By offering whiteboard exercises and asking polling questions, your participants will remain highly engaged. - Application sharing
Create collaborative exercises or teach complicated software applications or collaboratively edit documents and spreadsheets. Application sharing allows you to work on any application, as everyone logged-in will follow every action your cursor makes. You can even pass control so others can collaborate right along with you. - Archivable presentations
Wouldn’t it be great if you could review a meeting after it occurred or study for an exam by going back in time to the original class? Now you can, as archives retain everything that happened — from voice, to chat, to content — during the meeting or live class, allowing everything to be played back, verbatim. - Technology appropriate for Online Education
Hardware, software, networks, and IT skills vary enormously. In order to accommodate as many users as possible, we specifically developed Meet & Confer to effectively operate easily. Low-bandwidth features allow for dial-up access, and virtually any user, on a PC, Mac, or Linux machine can fully participate with minimal training and setup. - Accessible to people with disabilities
Just because a student has a disability doesn't mean they shouldn’t be able to attend your live, online meeting. Meetings can be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired while also reaching out to the visually impaired by offering compatibility with most screen readers. These accessibility features help institutions meet many state and federal accessibility guidelines.
