Name: Institutional Workshops on Facilitating Digital Conference Service to LEARN R&E Community - UoM
Start: 2020-02-10T13:00:00+05:30
End: 2020-02-10T17:35:00+05:30
Location: University of Moratuwa

Description

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) provides an 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 allow them to schedule/manage meetings themself.

The workshop is going to train faculty and researchers on how to make use of Zoom in their R&E activities.

Venue: University of Moratuwa, CSE L2 Lab

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: 10th February 2020
Prerequisite: none

Note: We encourage you to come with your laptop and/or smartphone with 100% battery charged.

Instructor: Thilina Pathirana / LEARN

Agenda

1st hour - NRENs, LEARN and Its Services

(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

Participants