Voice chat
Video conferencing
Shared whiteboard
Application sharing
Virtual community with avatars
Group browsing/follow me mode
Hand raising and/or voting functions
A full set of synchronous communication functions are often summarized under the term “Virtual
Classroom”. Here the trainer teaches a class of students completely synchronously like in instructorbased training, just virtually.
Group work/collaboration
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Shared/private annotation support for any document within the system
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Shared/private