LEARN organizes half day workshop on "Facilitating Digital Conference Service to LEARN R&E Community" targeting faculty and researches in faculty/institutional level. LEARN effort is to make R&E community aware of use of Digital Conferencing in R&E.

Digital Conferencing Facility (Zoom) received from BDREN Facilitating Distance Learning using Digital Conferencing Facility(fDLuDCf) of Asi@connect project provides enterprise grade video conferencing facility that you can use for regular meetings, conferences and distance learning/education. LEARN is going to provide a Zoom Pro account to individuals that allows to schedule/manage meetings them self.

The workshop is going to train faculty and researchers how to make use of Zoom in their R&E activities.

Venue: Seminar Room/Auditorium

• Duration: half a day (3 hours)
• Class size: 50+
• Target group: faculty and researchers
• Program Level: basic/intermediate
• Course fee: free of charge (refreshments will be provided)
• Date: as announced in faculty/institutional level
• Prerequisite: none

Note: We encourage you to come with your laptop and/or smart phone with 100% battery charged.

Instructor from the LEARN technical team

Agenda

1^st hour - NRENs, LEARN and Its Services

           (NRENs, Inter University networking, Acadamic Networking, Commodity Internet, LEARN TAC, Training/Workshop, Eduroam, LIAF, Zoom)

2^nd and 3^rd hours - LEARN Digital Conferencing Platforms with hands-on

•  A brief overview of Jitsi Video Conferencing Bridge 
•  Zoom features and its plans/pricing
•  Scheduling/starting a zoom meeting, inviting,  and join with
•  Personal meeting room
•  Screen/desktop sharing including AV contents
•  Recording (local/cloud)
•  Waiting room 
•  Breakout rooms
•  Polling
•  Closed captioning
•  Zoom inside Moodle
•  Zoom room (Licensing and Hardware)
•  Zoom room connectors (H.323/SIP) (Licensing and Hardware)
•  Zoom Webinar and live steaming (Licensing)

More details at

https://ws.learn.ac.lk/wiki/ZoomInstWorkshops