Collaborative Learning Technology For The Education Sector

Share Screen

Sharing a video clip or presentation with your students should not require drawing their attention to a difficult to see data projector. With Share Screen you can mirror your content to all student's devices in your class at the click of a button. That means you can be certain they have a clear view while engaging with the technology they love to use.

Bring to Me

For the first time you can watch the way your students interact with a problem. Bring to Me creates the most personalized teaching environment ever seen. By mirroring students' content to your device at will, you get an unparalleled view of their thought processes, giving you the ability to identify areas of weakness and address these with targeted intervention. The Pen function, lets you interact with their content and highlight areas of note from your device. Find work that is interesting, showcase it by streaming it to all student devices to create a deep and interactive learning experience.

BYOD

Nothing should come between you and your personal devices, especially in a classroom. With our BYOD function you and your students can connect in real time within the class to share videos and images via wifi, to a displays. From there you can share it to all students through the send to all feature making your personal device a key part of the learning experience.

Room Join

Teaching a class on a distant campus once meant making the long trip there and spending time away from family. Room Join connects multiple rooms on one or many campuses in real time, allowing you to provide the same teaching experience without making the trip. You also have the perfect solution to handle student overflow issues when a single classroom is simply not large enough.

Storm Cloud

Storm Cloud provides the facility for an interactive whiteboard native to Xest. Every participant can contribute with their own device. It's like having a "butcher paper" in front of every participant, each with the ability to influence the discussion. What's more is you can upload files that can be drawn over without changing the source document - now that's interactive learning.

Student Notes

Students can take notes as the class progresses. Add Subjects. Capture their screen and add notes to the screen captures and record a video of their screen to review later. This is then zipped up and can be saved to disk.

YouTube

We have removed the adds and automatically deliver your students the highest resolution video content. YouTube hosts a wealth of knowledge that you can now access in class. You can search, save and show clips - to specific students, groups or the entire class.

Poll

Gaining insights into the thoughts of your students is no longer dependent on asking for a show of hands or handing out clickers. Upload predetermined questions or make them up as you go using Poll. It provides the fastest way to ask your students questions while obtaining a statistical breakdown of their answers - giving you the ability to gauge students' understanding and immediately adjust accordingly.

File Share

Sharing files with students in the classroom is now stress free. With a few clicks you can send any file from any folder to all students in the class in real time. Eliminate the need for email, USB's or any other web based service.

Planner

Bringing all your content to class shouldn't be complicated. Planner gives you the platform to effortlessly bring your material together. Upload any content from any source, including your LMS, USB, network drive or webpage. So you can focus on teaching, instead of searching for content while students wait and lose focus.

Student Control

Collaboration shouldn't be inhibited by technology, it should be enhanced. Student Control lets teachers hand the baton over to the class, for individuals to showcase their work and gain feedback. By selecting "Student Control" you provide students the ability to share their work without the need for you to go back to your device. This gives you the freedom to walk through the room and engage with your students while trusting their desire to learn.

Chat

Empower all your students with an equal voice in the classroom. Chat removes all barriers to communication, making it easy for apprehensive students to speak up. Students submit questions or statements to you during class time, creating a dynamic and participatory learning environment. That means you can address questions at your convenience, while increasing engagement and understanding.

Screen Lock

Screen Lock allows you to easily lock students' screens. It's Ideal for locking PCs when time is up during exams or simply gaining students attention away from their devices.

Cam

Used in conjunction with 'Room Join", "Cam" creates a more personal learning experience when you are not in the same room. Now your interactions using Xest can have the same depth as being there.

Interact On/Off

There are times you want your class to work collaboratively and there are times when you want students to operate independently. Interact gives you the option to choose the type of lesson you would like to host while maintaining the flexibility to change on the go.

Groups

Students and Teachers can create Groups within the Classroom. The Teacher can share their screen to an individual Group without disturbing other Students. Students can share their screen to their Group. All Chats can be limited to the Group. Students can only connect to and share with Group Members when Groups are enabled.

Timer

Easily allocate and monitor time you set for specific activities. Timer lets you allocate how long a student or group has to spend on a specific task trough the countdown clock. So students can self-regulate their time and work to a deadline and you get a reminder on when time is up.

Privacy

The Privacy button allows Students to set their session as "Do not Disturb" the Student thumbnail will show as "Busy" to other Students and and report as "Busy" if another Student tries to connect. This action is only relevant to other Students and not the Teacher. A "Private" Student will always appear as normal to the Teacher.

Record

Students can Record their screen. The Screen Recording will capture everything that is displayed on the Students PC Display. This includes the Teacher Display when shared, any YouTube video the Teacher has shared as well as other Student Displays when connected to other Students or Groups.