The Melissi Digital Classroom is a flexible multimedia teaching tool.

It provides all the main features of a traditional language laboratory, plus those of a computer based training system.

It offers teachers the opportunity to create exciting lessons for their students, thus enriching the student experience.

As the software is easy to install the classroom need not be taken out of service for a long period.

The Digital Classroom consists of a teacher program plus student programs. These "talk" to each other across a fast network. The teacher's program uses a variety of tools to make control of the class as effortless as possible.

Selected Features A constant overview of the whole class or individuals. Remote control of student PCs, communication and listening and the ability to share the teacher screen with students. An extra monitor can be added for the teacher to view both the program and class-view. Classrooms can be arranged on the screen to reflect the reality of a room. What's more, teachers can switch call-class on and off and also talk to individual or many students. Monitoring of students' recordings. Melissi has developed some innovative technology to view and listen to student activity. It is possible for teachers to watch student screens and listen to their current activities. Viewing is possible either in "thumbnail" mode, showing the classroom layout, or at the resolution of the student screen. Teachers can also use their mouse to control the student computer or type on their keyboard straight into word processing or subtitling on a student computer. The ability to send a file, or group of files, to an individual, a group, or the entire class with one quick "drag & drop" operation. This can be performed before the students log in so saving time at the start of a class. Teachers can also produce complete “activities” in advance that can include audio, video, pictures, text and instructions. Audio recording from cassettes in real time or high speed. Video and microphone real time recording. High speed CD extraction and compression. The teacher can set permissions to disallow individual or all students access to the internet, telephones or text. This facility is very useful, for instance, during an exam An Integrated Word Processor, compatible with .doc, .rtf, .txt and other documents. Includes right to left text entry. Unicode support for non-European characters with full on-screen keyboard mapping for most languages. more All the students' recordings, telephone calls and other files, can be collected by the teacher, at the end of the class, for correction later. "Telephone" calls and "text" messaging with visual feedback of student telephones in use. The capability to speak to individuals or the entire class without interrupting what they are doing and to monitor their conversations. Highly efficient Ogg Vorbis or .mp3 audio compression in student and staff systems. Ability to record Internet "radio"

Student Interface Most interface elements are the same from the teacher and student points of view, although there are inevitably slightly different requirements in some situations.     Subtitling is included as part of the Digital Classroom.

One copy of the Black Box interpreting package is included free with the Digital Classroom.

To enable effective sound and video digitisation you may need some additional equipment.

Demonstration Video
ORA - Staff Audio Recorder
Features at a Glance
Technical Information
Network, Security & Support