Live Interaction

Arel's Spotlight Live client supports live interactive capabilities for Spotlight Meeting, Spotlight Webinar and Spotlight Campus groups of integrated application modules. The following features add to the user's experience to resemble traditional face-to-face scenarios:

Multi-point windows - Up to 16 video windows (this limit is customizable per system). The video size and quality can be selected by the moderator ranging from 10kbps to 1mbps. Arel's video technologies enable a multi-point video session where a work group can collaborate over data (such as slides or documents) and still enjoy high quality audio and video making the meeting experience as natural as possible.

Wideband audio -Arel's wideband audio quality eliminates "meeting fatigue" during the live sessions and provides a "near FM" quality that is significantly better than standard telephony audio. In addition the wideband audio is closer to a natural conversation so it makes understanding easier and also makes it easier to identify the current speaker.

Collaborative interaction - Attendees may collaborate using whiteboard, chat, application sharing, instant yes/no polling, questions and surveys. This complements the audio and video interaction and creates an effective working and conferencing environment.

Application Sharing - Arel's exceptional application sharing technology enables a moderator (or co-moderator) to share any desktop application with other users in the session while preserving high quality and low latency.

Rich media content - Content items can be prepared prior to a scheduled event or during the live event. A list of the content items is displayed upon entering the session. The moderator can easily display the content items to the attendees. The content can be "locked" so the attendees can only see the current content item displayed by the moderator.

A wide variety of content types is supported, including: Microsoft PowerPoint slides, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft Word documents, Macromedia Flash animations, pictures (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and more), media clips (WMV, AVI, WAV, MP3 and more), interactive questions and more.

"Remote Control" capability-A moderator can remotely view and control an attendee's desktop or any open application for an application sharing session. This functionality is useful for monitoring a participant's understanding and progress, as well as for software training assistance or for technical support purposes.

Giving Moderator controls to Attendees - At any point the moderator can hand over presentation capabilities to any attendee in order to lead the session. The moderator can regain control at any time.

Session recording - Moderators can remotely record sessions and choose to automatically notify users by email regarding their availability.