NEW YORK— (February 21, 2007) – Horizon Wimba, a provider of collaborative software applications for online education, announced today that it has released integrations for its award-winning Live Classroom and Wimba Voice Boards with ANGEL LMS7. Audio, video, application sharing and content display are now available from within the ANGEL environment. For instructors, this means more personal teaching tools without additional complexity.
“Horizon Wimba provides a high quality collaborative environment that is quite popular with ANGEL users,” said Christopher Clapp, president and CEO, ANGEL Learning. “Integrating these market leading technologies with ANGEL provides our customers simple access to extremely powerful tools and a seamless learning experience.”
The new integration enables ANGEL users to:
Better communicate with their students and facilitate interactive discussions
· Use the familiar ANGEL interface to manage and configure Live Classroom and Wimba Voice Tools
· Access Live Classroom and Wimba Voice Boards without the need for new usernames, passwords, or external login pages
· Add Live Classroom meeting announcements and Wimba Voice Tools reminders directly to ANGEL calendars
· Add content to Live Classroom from within ANGEL
· View Live Classroom poll results and tracking information
· Access archives
“We understand that educators must retain the valuable, personal element of teaching in their online courses,” said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO of Horizon Wimba. “By integrating our collaborative tools with ANGEL, we’ve now made it easier for hundreds of institutions worldwide to enable their faculty to interact in a more human and natural manner with their students.”
About ANGEL Learning
ANGEL Learning, Inc. develops and markets enterprise elearning software. Our flagship products are the ANGEL Learning Management Suite and the ANGEL ePortfolio system. Our products have been honed by use – with millions of students and instructors served from K to corporate. We enjoy a reputation for creating products with exceptional ease of use, excellent vision into learner progress, and for keeping our commitments. ANGEL LMS received the 2006 Software & Information Industry Association CODiE award for Best Postsecondary Course Management Solution. Educators ranked ANGEL first in customer satisfaction in the IMS GLC Learn-Sat awards. Having emerged from the academy ourselves, our core values reflect those of our customers well. ANGEL world headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana. To learn more about the ANGEL difference, visit us at www.angellearning.com