Cisco Webex Meetings
Digital era has made it easier to connect across boundaries without the cost and hassle of travel, human connection is still critical. Video conferencing has saturated every corner of our daily interactions, from social media to personal calls with friends and family. Strong businesses start with strong relationships. And strong relationships are forged on a foundation of strong communication. That’s why Cisco Webex® Meetings puts video at the forefront of communication and collaboration to empower millions of people.
With Cisco® Webex Meetings, anyone can join a meeting from inside or outside the organization, using mobile, desktop, video room devices (even a third-party device), or their browser. Everyone can enjoy consistent, easy meeting experiences and be fully engaged in the meeting, without technical complexity. Organizations need to implement solutions that remove the complexity of the video meeting experience—with crystal-clear audio and content sharing in the same meeting.
Benefits
● Simple video-first experiences from any device
◦ Engage in video-first meetings, with integrated voice and content sharing, to collaborate more effectively with customers, partners, and employees without the need to travel
◦ Experience lifelike meetings by combining Cisco’s award-winning video room devices with Webex Meetings
◦ Or join from any third-party video device – even Microsoft Skype for Business
◦ Easily call back to your meeting using video system proximity detection
● Best mobile experience on the market
● Simplest joining and scheduling
◦ No downloads and plug-ins required. Easily join your meeting with the Webex web app for the industry’s best browser experience, with full meeting functionality on all major browsers
◦ One consistent join experience across all devices – just tap the big green button
◦ Join and host easily from any device—desktop, mobile, video, or browser—with no downloads or plug-ins required
◦ Just add @webex for the simplest scheduling experience on the market today—even on mobile devices
● Innovation at the core
◦ Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice intelligence brings digital in-meeting assistant to Webex Meetings, including voice commands, real-time transcripts, notes and highlights, and post-meeting experience
◦ People Insights lets you know more about the people you’re meeting with, right at your fingertips
● Integrated into the tools you use most
● Delivered on a secure, scalable global platform for an uncompromised experience
◦ Take the worry out of your meeting with multilayer security based on Cisco’s industry-leading expertise without compromising the user experience
◦ Integrated audio
◦ Dedicated solutions for specialty meetings such as events, training, and remote support
Simple, video-first meetings
Industry-leading video
Customize how you want to work and who you want to see in your meeting with multistream HD video. Add Cisco’s award-winning video room and desk devices to your Webex meeting for lifelike experiences and enjoy exceptional mobile meetings even while you’re on the go.
Customizable layouts
Customize how you want to view your meeting with layout options, including active speaker plus seven participants. Choose a full-screen video layout with the ability to switch to a grid view that shows equal-sized windows for up to 25 video streams at once . Toggle back and forth between your content share and your video, depending on your meeting preference. Easily navigate your meeting with the centralized control bar for easy access to all your meeting controls. Lock and pin individual videos so that you can focus on the participant of your choosing and see their reactions. Chat privately or publicly with participants during a meeting, and monitor interest with real-time polls.
Personal rooms
Meet even faster in your own permanent, personal room . Schedule ahead or leave your room open, lock it, and easily admit people waiting in your lobby. If you are unavailable to attend your meeting, choose an alternate host to start and run the meeting in your personal room. Save time and join Cisco Webex meetings from your Cisco Webex Teams™ app, or easily continue your conversations in a Webex Teams™ space after your meeting ends.
Document, application, and screen sharing
Share an application or your entire screen with remote attendees in real time . Attendees can take control and share content, or annotate yours. On the go, share your content or screen from your browser, Android devices, or iPhone or iPad. With the Webex desktop app, easily share your screen wirelessly via Proximity. Organizations can have a faster-moving, smarter, and more connected workforce by sharing files from the IBM Connections Cloud and Microsoft One Drive.
Crystal-clear, integrated audio
Offer an interactive meeting experience with Cisco Webex Meetings integrated audio—available through the Cisco Webex Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or Webex Cloud Connected Audio administered by your company or a certified service provider. You can also use a range of third-party audio options. Choose toll or toll-free, or call-in or call-back. Or give attendees the option to connect using Voice over IP (VoIP) or your computer’s built-in audio. Wideband audio support using VoIP provides outstanding audio quality—even over low-bandwidth networks.
Call me
Have your meeting call you. Simply enter your phone number or preferred video device when the meeting begins, and the meeting will call you—no dialing, no passcodes. Webex Meetings can also detect nearby proximity-enabled video systems (on-premises or cloud registered) and prepopulate those video addresses for easy access.
Simple, fast join and scheduling experiences
No downloads or plug-ins required, no dialing or fumbling with cords, codes, or integrations. Just one button to press—even on Cisco video room devices. Join from any device of your choice, including desktop, mobile, browser, third-party standards-based room devices, even Skype for Business. Have a consistent meeting experience no matter how you join. Get the simplest scheduling experience on the market today, even on your mobile devices. Schedule and join directly from your desktop for the fastest entrance into your meetings. Even share content directly to your video device without having to dial into your meeting.
Cognitive Collaboration for meeting intelligence
Bringing voice intelligence to Webex Meetings
Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings is the first digital in-meeting assistant for the enterprise. AI-powered and voice activated with “OK Webex” lets you automate common meeting tasks so you can focus on interacting with other participants. Webex Assistant for Meetings features real-time transcription and closed-captioning with leadership word accuracy, which can be especially helpful for participants who are hearing-impaired. And, there are several ways to capture specific points: Ask Webex Assistant to take a note, highlight it yourself, or automatically capture the note with pre-determined trigger words. Recorded transcripts make sure you never miss a meeting detail, and speaker labeling within the transcript lets you know exactly what was said by whom. Finally, post-meeting features let you edit highlights, notes, and transcripts; create and share meeting highlights and recaps with your team; and search all of your recorded meetings using keyword search so you can find that exact place where something was discussed. Cisco is the only provider with in-house data management, preserving your security.
People insights
With People Insights for Webex Meetings you’re armed with the relevant, just-in-time information you need to better understand and relate to your colleagues, partners, clients, and prospects. This information includes position, contact information, location, and even reporting structure for internal colleagues. You can also review the latest company news, including an overview, market capitalization, and stock price. Make faster connections and build better relationships, right from your meeting space. Instantly learn more about your meeting participants and the company they work for with people profiles right at your fingertips . You can edit or hide your information at any time.
Integrated where you work
Integrated with the tools you use
Meet where you work in the tools you use, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Workplace by Facebook, and Salesforce. Meet where you learn in learning management systems such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Desire 2 Learn, and Sakai. Easily schedule meetings in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office 365, Google Calendar, and Lotus Notes. Use single sign-on to access Cisco Webex. Take advantage of integration and interoperability with Cisco collaboration products such as Cisco Jabber®, Cisco Webex Teams, and Cisco video devices.
Interactive multimedia experience
Engage your audience by incorporating multimedia into your presentations, including PowerPoint, Flash animations, audio, and web-based and video files. In addition, the multimedia experience supports third-party closed captioning services that offer streaming live text or a sign language interpreter video feed. Stream your Webex meeting via Facebook Live to your respective audiences for even broader reach.
Cross-platform support
Meet with anyone on all common operating system platforms, such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. Join meetings from Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Edge browsers.
Mobile optimized
Exceptional mobile experience
Enjoy a rich meeting experience with audio, 720p video, and content sharing across Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android wearables. For meeting participants on the go, Apple and Cisco are delivering industry-leading application, calling, and collaboration experiences for the modern enterprise, with new features in iOS 11, including tap to join, native screen sharing, 3-D augmented reality file sharing, and blurred background. Sign in with Touch ID or Face ID on iPhone X and join your meetings faster with voice commands through Siri. Control your meetings easily with the MacBook Touch Bar.
Mute/unmute and background audio noise detection
Make meetings less distracting by muting yourself, and as a host you can mute specific participants or everyone. You can also mute or unmute your audio simultaneously from either your headset or your computer. Computer call-in users can experience fewer interruptions with Cisco Webex background noise detection that can identify noises such as typing, knocking, sirens, and dogs barking, and will prompt you to mute your microphone.
Trusted security and scalability
Industry-leading security and compliance
Webex Meetings is built with Cisco’s industry-leading security expertise. With a global architecture and network, Webex Meetings helps ensure speed and performance with data centers located throughout the globe. Get high-quality video meetings without delays—no matter where participants are located.
Recording, editing, and playback of meetings
Securely create encrypted and password-protected recordings of your meetings for future reference, training, or demonstrations. Play back meetings from mobile devices as well. Replay your recordings along with transcription.
Advanced analytics
Get advanced analytics for Cisco Webex Meetings with the Pro Pack from the Cisco Webex Control Hub. Get real-time access and details on Cisco Webex meetings, such as meeting duration and participants list.
Secure, scalable, and reliable service
Cisco Webex Meetings helps reduce costs and allows IT to focus on core priorities. It is a cloud service on the Cisco Webex platform, making it easy to deploy and scale as your organization grows. The global, enterprise-grade Cisco Webex platform is designed specifically for highly secure delivery of real-time applications. It offers a scalable architecture, consistent availability, and multilayer tenant security validated by rigorous independent audits, including SSAE-16 and ISO 27001.
Cisco Webex Assist Services for meetings
Cisco Webex Assist producers help every step of the way to provide a polished, captivating presentation. Premium Assist services include a consultation and best practices advice, pre-meeting support, in-meeting assistance, and post-meeting results and recordings.
Webex Training
Broaden the reach and effectiveness of corporate training, higher education, or vocational school with online training from Cisco Webex® Training. Make it easy to deliver highly effective, live instruction to anyone, anywhere, without compromising on effectiveness. It provides a dynamic, interactive learning environment and better manages audience participation. And extend the reach of your e-learning initiatives without adding staff or increasing travel budget.
What if you could offer training to more people in more locations as part of a corporate training program or educational organization, provide an impact learning experience, and slash costs at the same time? Online classes are a great way to augment in-person classes and make continuing education more convenient. Cisco Webex Training is an online training solution that can help overcome the instructional challenges of keeping online learners engaged during class and helping them retain the information afterward.
Instructors can teach online more naturally using high-definition video for face-to-face interaction. They can enjoy clear audio, video, and data sharing, and use breakout sessions to create collaborative and individualized learning experiences that improve comprehension. Learn when it’s convenient for participants through on-demand classes and take advantage of hands-on labs for practical application training.
Benefits
Cisco Webex Training offers an exceptionally rich and interactive classroom experience. It’s easy to use and includes unlimited online sessions, integrated audio, content sharing, and the ability to record classes. Whether you’re an enterprise using Webex Training for corporate education or a university delivering online lectures, you’ll benefit from higher productivity and cost savings for vocational training, online lectures, tutoring, and group projects.
Benefits for Enterprises Improve competitiveness with ongoing training for worldwide employees, customers, and partners.
• Increase the reach of a geographically dispersed workforce, and save money at the same time.
• Increase market agility and customer responsiveness through just-in-time training.
• Gain competitive advantage through better-trained sales and support personnel, partners, and customers.
• Transform the training program into a profit center by generating revenue with e-commerce, and increase attendance with promotion codes.
Benefits for Educational Organizations Provide students with more options for e-learning
• Attract and retain students through more compelling online learning with live high-definition video.
• Help students achieve learning objectives through better classroom collaboration and communication with virtual breakout sessions.
• Evaluate training effectiveness with testing and polling, attendance reports, and attentiveness.
• Create a digital library of on-demand recorded lectures for future use.
Benefits for IT Count on Cisco for security, reliability, and performance
• Reduce hardware, software, and maintenance costs.
• Get reliable, high-performance audio, video, and document sharing.
• Maintain data privacy with encrypted connections and stringent policy control.
• Take advantage of existing learning management system investments.
Key Benefits
Multimedia Sharing
Share Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, documents, streaming videos, demonstration software, whiteboards, and Adobe Flash animations. Pass sharing and annotation privileges to your learners to encourage participation. In addition, the multimedia experience supports third-party closed captioning services that offer streaming live text or a sign language interpreter video feed.
High-Definition Video, Integrated Audio with Telephony, and Voice over IP Conferencing
Cisco Webex Training helps keep learners focused and interested with high-definition video of the presenter in the main session. Full-screen mode provides a view of the active speaker in the main video panel, with up to six other participants displayed as thumbnails. The video experience includes Active Speaker, which switches the video automatically to focus on the current speaker. All participants also get clear, reliable audio through a telephone bridge or voice over IP (VoIP) and can join through callback or call in using a toll or tollfree number .
Breakout Sessions
Assign participants to virtual breakout rooms for group projects and brainstorming. Then drop in on the breakout sessions to assess their progress and facilitate discussion. Students can share presentations and documents, whiteboards, and applications within their breakout sessions.
Threaded Q&A
Track questions and document responses using threaded Q&A. Panelists can prioritize questions, display answers publicly or privately, or assign the Q&A to a colleague.
Chat
Attendees can engage in private or public chat conversations with the instructor, another attendee, or the entire class.
Polls, Attendee Feedback, and Attention Indicator
Collect feedback with one or more polls during a session, and instantly tabulate poll results to share with the class Participants can also “raise their hands”; the system automatically orders the requests so you can answer questions on a first-come, first-served basis. Gauge individual and overall group attentiveness at any point with a visual attention indicator.
Hands-On Lab
The unique Hands-On Lab feature gives participants highly secure access to remote PCs for hands-on application learning and practice. Lab sessions can be conducted during live training sessions or on demand.
Integrated Test Engine
Measure class performance by testing students before, during, or after live training sessions. Deliver a variety of test types, including multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, and essay. You can also take advantage of automated grading, reporting, and SCORM compliance, and store and reuse tests for other sessions.
Recording and Playback
Capture and store session recordings for reuse and review using the integrated Network-Based Recording capability. Stream recordings within live sessions or post them for students to play back at their convenience. Recordings capture all aspects of the session, including audio, data, video, and annotations.
Registration and Reporting
Simplify time-consuming administrative processes with selfscheduling, registration management, and attendance reporting. Access extensive reports about attendance, views of recorded classes, class attentiveness, test results, and more. In addition, you can schedule and launch sessions with a single click directly from Microsoft Outlook.
Automated E-Commerce
Webex Training offers integrated e-commerce to help you easily monetize your live or recorded classes. You can set prices for each class; create, edit, and delete promotions; and configure credit card and currency payment options using U.S., U.K., and Canadian currencies. Webex Training is fully Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant through an integration with PayPal. PayPal Payflow Pro and Website Payments Pro are supported right out of the box.
Mobile Support
Enjoy a rich training experience with audio, video, and content sharing across Android, iPhone, and iPad devices.
Single Sign-On
The single sign-on (SSO) feature enables three different levels of enhanced security for meetings: (1) tag attendees on a participant list as SSO-authenticated by designating them as “Internal” or “Guest”; (2) force SSO to ensure that the only participants are those who have been authenticated via company sign-on; and (3) set up invitation-only meetings with internal participants – no invitation forwarding allowed.
Cross-Platform Support
Access Cisco Webex Training from almost any environment, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.
Cisco Webex Meetings
Digital era has made it easier to connect across boundaries without the cost and hassle of travel, human connection is still critical. Video conferencing has saturated every corner of our daily interactions, from social media to personal calls with friends and family. Strong businesses start with strong relationships. And strong relationships are forged on a foundation of strong communication. That’s why Cisco Webex® Meetings puts video at the forefront of communication and collaboration to empower millions of people.
With Cisco® Webex Meetings, anyone can join a meeting from inside or outside the organization, using mobile, desktop, video room devices (even a third-party device), or their browser. Everyone can enjoy consistent, easy meeting experiences and be fully engaged in the meeting, without technical complexity. Organizations need to implement solutions that remove the complexity of the video meeting experience—with crystal-clear audio and content sharing in the same meeting.
Benefits
● Simple video-first experiences from any device
◦ Engage in video-first meetings, with integrated voice and content sharing, to collaborate more effectively with customers, partners, and employees without the need to travel
◦ Experience lifelike meetings by combining Cisco’s award-winning video room devices with Webex Meetings
◦ Or join from any third-party video device – even Microsoft Skype for Business
◦ Easily call back to your meeting using video system proximity detection
● Best mobile experience on the market
● Simplest joining and scheduling
◦ No downloads and plug-ins required. Easily join your meeting with the Webex web app for the industry’s best browser experience, with full meeting functionality on all major browsers
◦ One consistent join experience across all devices – just tap the big green button
◦ Join and host easily from any device—desktop, mobile, video, or browser—with no downloads or plug-ins required
◦ Just add @webex for the simplest scheduling experience on the market today—even on mobile devices
● Innovation at the core
◦ Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice intelligence brings digital in-meeting assistant to Webex Meetings, including voice commands, real-time transcripts, notes and highlights, and post-meeting experience
◦ People Insights lets you know more about the people you’re meeting with, right at your fingertips
● Integrated into the tools you use most
● Delivered on a secure, scalable global platform for an uncompromised experience
◦ Take the worry out of your meeting with multilayer security based on Cisco’s industry-leading expertise without compromising the user experience
◦ Integrated audio
◦ Dedicated solutions for specialty meetings such as events, training, and remote support
Simple, video-first meetings
Industry-leading video
Customize how you want to work and who you want to see in your meeting with multistream HD video. Add Cisco’s award-winning video room and desk devices to your Webex meeting for lifelike experiences and enjoy exceptional mobile meetings even while you’re on the go.
Customizable layouts
Customize how you want to view your meeting with layout options, including active speaker plus seven participants. Choose a full-screen video layout with the ability to switch to a grid view that shows equal-sized windows for up to 25 video streams at once . Toggle back and forth between your content share and your video, depending on your meeting preference. Easily navigate your meeting with the centralized control bar for easy access to all your meeting controls. Lock and pin individual videos so that you can focus on the participant of your choosing and see their reactions. Chat privately or publicly with participants during a meeting, and monitor interest with real-time polls.
Personal rooms
Meet even faster in your own permanent, personal room . Schedule ahead or leave your room open, lock it, and easily admit people waiting in your lobby. If you are unavailable to attend your meeting, choose an alternate host to start and run the meeting in your personal room. Save time and join Cisco Webex meetings from your Cisco Webex Teams™ app, or easily continue your conversations in a Webex Teams™ space after your meeting ends.
Document, application, and screen sharing
Share an application or your entire screen with remote attendees in real time . Attendees can take control and share content, or annotate yours. On the go, share your content or screen from your browser, Android devices, or iPhone or iPad. With the Webex desktop app, easily share your screen wirelessly via Proximity. Organizations can have a faster-moving, smarter, and more connected workforce by sharing files from the IBM Connections Cloud and Microsoft One Drive.
Crystal-clear, integrated audio
Offer an interactive meeting experience with Cisco Webex Meetings integrated audio—available through the Cisco Webex Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or Webex Cloud Connected Audio administered by your company or a certified service provider. You can also use a range of third-party audio options. Choose toll or toll-free, or call-in or call-back. Or give attendees the option to connect using Voice over IP (VoIP) or your computer’s built-in audio. Wideband audio support using VoIP provides outstanding audio quality—even over low-bandwidth networks.
Call me
Have your meeting call you. Simply enter your phone number or preferred video device when the meeting begins, and the meeting will call you—no dialing, no passcodes. Webex Meetings can also detect nearby proximity-enabled video systems (on-premises or cloud registered) and prepopulate those video addresses for easy access.
Simple, fast join and scheduling experiences
No downloads or plug-ins required, no dialing or fumbling with cords, codes, or integrations. Just one button to press—even on Cisco video room devices. Join from any device of your choice, including desktop, mobile, browser, third-party standards-based room devices, even Skype for Business. Have a consistent meeting experience no matter how you join. Get the simplest scheduling experience on the market today, even on your mobile devices. Schedule and join directly from your desktop for the fastest entrance into your meetings. Even share content directly to your video device without having to dial into your meeting.
Cognitive Collaboration for meeting intelligence
Bringing voice intelligence to Webex Meetings
Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings is the first digital in-meeting assistant for the enterprise. AI-powered and voice activated with “OK Webex” lets you automate common meeting tasks so you can focus on interacting with other participants. Webex Assistant for Meetings features real-time transcription and closed-captioning with leadership word accuracy, which can be especially helpful for participants who are hearing-impaired. And, there are several ways to capture specific points: Ask Webex Assistant to take a note, highlight it yourself, or automatically capture the note with pre-determined trigger words. Recorded transcripts make sure you never miss a meeting detail, and speaker labeling within the transcript lets you know exactly what was said by whom. Finally, post-meeting features let you edit highlights, notes, and transcripts; create and share meeting highlights and recaps with your team; and search all of your recorded meetings using keyword search so you can find that exact place where something was discussed. Cisco is the only provider with in-house data management, preserving your security.
People insights
With People Insights for Webex Meetings you’re armed with the relevant, just-in-time information you need to better understand and relate to your colleagues, partners, clients, and prospects. This information includes position, contact information, location, and even reporting structure for internal colleagues. You can also review the latest company news, including an overview, market capitalization, and stock price. Make faster connections and build better relationships, right from your meeting space. Instantly learn more about your meeting participants and the company they work for with people profiles right at your fingertips . You can edit or hide your information at any time.
Integrated where you work
Integrated with the tools you use
Meet where you work in the tools you use, including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Workplace by Facebook, and Salesforce. Meet where you learn in learning management systems such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Desire 2 Learn, and Sakai. Easily schedule meetings in Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office 365, Google Calendar, and Lotus Notes. Use single sign-on to access Cisco Webex. Take advantage of integration and interoperability with Cisco collaboration products such as Cisco Jabber®, Cisco Webex Teams, and Cisco video devices.
Interactive multimedia experience
Engage your audience by incorporating multimedia into your presentations, including PowerPoint, Flash animations, audio, and web-based and video files. In addition, the multimedia experience supports third-party closed captioning services that offer streaming live text or a sign language interpreter video feed. Stream your Webex meeting via Facebook Live to your respective audiences for even broader reach.
Cross-platform support
Meet with anyone on all common operating system platforms, such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. Join meetings from Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Edge browsers.
Mobile optimized
Exceptional mobile experience
Enjoy a rich meeting experience with audio, 720p video, and content sharing across Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android wearables. For meeting participants on the go, Apple and Cisco are delivering industry-leading application, calling, and collaboration experiences for the modern enterprise, with new features in iOS 11, including tap to join, native screen sharing, 3-D augmented reality file sharing, and blurred background. Sign in with Touch ID or Face ID on iPhone X and join your meetings faster with voice commands through Siri. Control your meetings easily with the MacBook Touch Bar.
Mute/unmute and background audio noise detection
Make meetings less distracting by muting yourself, and as a host you can mute specific participants or everyone. You can also mute or unmute your audio simultaneously from either your headset or your computer. Computer call-in users can experience fewer interruptions with Cisco Webex background noise detection that can identify noises such as typing, knocking, sirens, and dogs barking, and will prompt you to mute your microphone.
Trusted security and scalability
Industry-leading security and compliance
Webex Meetings is built with Cisco’s industry-leading security expertise. With a global architecture and network, Webex Meetings helps ensure speed and performance with data centers located throughout the globe. Get high-quality video meetings without delays—no matter where participants are located.
Recording, editing, and playback of meetings
Securely create encrypted and password-protected recordings of your meetings for future reference, training, or demonstrations. Play back meetings from mobile devices as well. Replay your recordings along with transcription.
Advanced analytics
Get advanced analytics for Cisco Webex Meetings with the Pro Pack from the Cisco Webex Control Hub. Get real-time access and details on Cisco Webex meetings, such as meeting duration and participants list.
Secure, scalable, and reliable service
Cisco Webex Meetings helps reduce costs and allows IT to focus on core priorities. It is a cloud service on the Cisco Webex platform, making it easy to deploy and scale as your organization grows. The global, enterprise-grade Cisco Webex platform is designed specifically for highly secure delivery of real-time applications. It offers a scalable architecture, consistent availability, and multilayer tenant security validated by rigorous independent audits, including SSAE-16 and ISO 27001.
Cisco Webex Assist Services for meetings
Cisco Webex Assist producers help every step of the way to provide a polished, captivating presentation. Premium Assist services include a consultation and best practices advice, pre-meeting support, in-meeting assistance, and post-meeting results and recordings.
Webex Training
Broaden the reach and effectiveness of corporate training, higher education, or vocational school with online training from Cisco Webex® Training. Make it easy to deliver highly effective, live instruction to anyone, anywhere, without compromising on effectiveness. It provides a dynamic, interactive learning environment and better manages audience participation. And extend the reach of your e-learning initiatives without adding staff or increasing travel budget.
What if you could offer training to more people in more locations as part of a corporate training program or educational organization, provide an impact learning experience, and slash costs at the same time? Online classes are a great way to augment in-person classes and make continuing education more convenient. Cisco Webex Training is an online training solution that can help overcome the instructional challenges of keeping online learners engaged during class and helping them retain the information afterward.
Instructors can teach online more naturally using high-definition video for face-to-face interaction. They can enjoy clear audio, video, and data sharing, and use breakout sessions to create collaborative and individualized learning experiences that improve comprehension. Learn when it’s convenient for participants through on-demand classes and take advantage of hands-on labs for practical application training.
Benefits
Cisco Webex Training offers an exceptionally rich and interactive classroom experience. It’s easy to use and includes unlimited online sessions, integrated audio, content sharing, and the ability to record classes. Whether you’re an enterprise using Webex Training for corporate education or a university delivering online lectures, you’ll benefit from higher productivity and cost savings for vocational training, online lectures, tutoring, and group projects.
Benefits for Enterprises Improve competitiveness with ongoing training for worldwide employees, customers, and partners.
• Increase the reach of a geographically dispersed workforce, and save money at the same time.
• Increase market agility and customer responsiveness through just-in-time training.
• Gain competitive advantage through better-trained sales and support personnel, partners, and customers.
• Transform the training program into a profit center by generating revenue with e-commerce, and increase attendance with promotion codes.
Benefits for Educational Organizations Provide students with more options for e-learning
• Attract and retain students through more compelling online learning with live high-definition video.
• Help students achieve learning objectives through better classroom collaboration and communication with virtual breakout sessions.
• Evaluate training effectiveness with testing and polling, attendance reports, and attentiveness.
• Create a digital library of on-demand recorded lectures for future use.
Benefits for IT Count on Cisco for security, reliability, and performance
• Reduce hardware, software, and maintenance costs.
• Get reliable, high-performance audio, video, and document sharing.
• Maintain data privacy with encrypted connections and stringent policy control.
• Take advantage of existing learning management system investments.
Key Benefits
Multimedia Sharing
Share Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, documents, streaming videos, demonstration software, whiteboards, and Adobe Flash animations. Pass sharing and annotation privileges to your learners to encourage participation. In addition, the multimedia experience supports third-party closed captioning services that offer streaming live text or a sign language interpreter video feed.
High-Definition Video, Integrated Audio with Telephony, and Voice over IP Conferencing
Cisco Webex Training helps keep learners focused and interested with high-definition video of the presenter in the main session. Full-screen mode provides a view of the active speaker in the main video panel, with up to six other participants displayed as thumbnails. The video experience includes Active Speaker, which switches the video automatically to focus on the current speaker. All participants also get clear, reliable audio through a telephone bridge or voice over IP (VoIP) and can join through callback or call in using a toll or tollfree number .
Breakout Sessions
Assign participants to virtual breakout rooms for group projects and brainstorming. Then drop in on the breakout sessions to assess their progress and facilitate discussion. Students can share presentations and documents, whiteboards, and applications within their breakout sessions.
Threaded Q&A
Track questions and document responses using threaded Q&A. Panelists can prioritize questions, display answers publicly or privately, or assign the Q&A to a colleague.
Chat
Attendees can engage in private or public chat conversations with the instructor, another attendee, or the entire class.
Polls, Attendee Feedback, and Attention Indicator
Collect feedback with one or more polls during a session, and instantly tabulate poll results to share with the class Participants can also “raise their hands”; the system automatically orders the requests so you can answer questions on a first-come, first-served basis. Gauge individual and overall group attentiveness at any point with a visual attention indicator.
Hands-On Lab
The unique Hands-On Lab feature gives participants highly secure access to remote PCs for hands-on application learning and practice. Lab sessions can be conducted during live training sessions or on demand.
Integrated Test Engine
Measure class performance by testing students before, during, or after live training sessions. Deliver a variety of test types, including multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank, and essay. You can also take advantage of automated grading, reporting, and SCORM compliance, and store and reuse tests for other sessions.
Recording and Playback
Capture and store session recordings for reuse and review using the integrated Network-Based Recording capability. Stream recordings within live sessions or post them for students to play back at their convenience. Recordings capture all aspects of the session, including audio, data, video, and annotations.
Registration and Reporting
Simplify time-consuming administrative processes with selfscheduling, registration management, and attendance reporting. Access extensive reports about attendance, views of recorded classes, class attentiveness, test results, and more. In addition, you can schedule and launch sessions with a single click directly from Microsoft Outlook.
Automated E-Commerce
Webex Training offers integrated e-commerce to help you easily monetize your live or recorded classes. You can set prices for each class; create, edit, and delete promotions; and configure credit card and currency payment options using U.S., U.K., and Canadian currencies. Webex Training is fully Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant through an integration with PayPal. PayPal Payflow Pro and Website Payments Pro are supported right out of the box.
Mobile Support
Enjoy a rich training experience with audio, video, and content sharing across Android, iPhone, and iPad devices.
Single Sign-On
The single sign-on (SSO) feature enables three different levels of enhanced security for meetings: (1) tag attendees on a participant list as SSO-authenticated by designating them as “Internal” or “Guest”; (2) force SSO to ensure that the only participants are those who have been authenticated via company sign-on; and (3) set up invitation-only meetings with internal participants – no invitation forwarding allowed.
Cross-Platform Support
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