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LEARN organizes half day workshop on "Facilitating Digital Conference Service to LEARN R&E Community" targeting faculty and researches in faculty/institutional level. LEARN effort is to make R&E community aware of use of Digital Conferencing in R&E.

Digital Conferencing Facility (Zoom) received from BDREN Facilitating Distance Learning using Digital Conferencing Facility(fDLuDCf) of Asi@connect project provides enterprise grade video conferencing facility that you can use for regular meetings, conferences and distance learning/education. LEARN is going to provide a Zoom Pro account to individuals that allows to schedule/manage meetings them self.

Venue: Seminar Room/Auditorium

Duration: half a day (3 hours)
Class size: 50+
Target group: faculty and researchers
Program Level: basic/intermediate
Course fee: free of charge (refreshments will be provided)
Date: as announced in faculty/institutional level
Prerequisite: none
Note: We encourage you to come with your laptop and/or smart phone with 100% battery charged.

Agenda

1st hour - NRENs, LEARN and Its Services 

g(NRENs, Inter University networking, Acadamic Networking, Commodity Internet, LEARN TAC, Training/Workshop, Eduroam, LIAF, Zoom)

2nd and 3rd hours - LEARN Digital Conferencing Platforms with hands-on 

  • A brief overview of Jitsi Video Conferencing Bridge
  • Zoom features and its plans/pricing
  • Scheduling/starting a zoom meeting, inviting,  and join with Personal meeting room 
  • Screen/desktop sharing including AV contents
  • Recording (local/cloud)
  • Waiting room 
  • Breakout rooms
  • Polling
  • Closed captioning
  • Zoom inside Moodle
  • Zoom room (Licensing and Hardware)
  • Zoom room connectors (H.323/SIP) (Licensing and Hardware)
  • Zoom Webinar and live steaming (Licensing)

More details at : https://ws.learn.ac.lk/wiki/ZoomInstWorkshops

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