NJEDge and Wimba discounted pricing agreement. Under this new agreement all NJEDge member schools are now eligible to take advantage of discounts of up to 40% off list pricing when subscribing to the Wimba Collaboration Suite.

The Wimba Collaboration Suite includes:

Live Classroom Our fully featured live virtual classroom supporting audio, video, application sharing, and content display, enables instructors to add vitally important elements of interaction that simply cannot be provided in a text-based course. Personalize your online courses by holding live, online classes, office hours, guest lectures, webcasts, or meetings.

Pronto Basic Pronto is an instant messaging and voice chat tool that allows students and instructors to spontaneously meet live online at any time to discuss their coursework. Pronto works with course management systems like Blackboard and WebCT to automatically populate students' contact lists with their classmates' names, thereby making it easy for students to spontaneously collaborate live online. After all, not all learning can be scheduled; it's often informal and unplanned.

Wimba Voice Tools Learn and teach in the most natural way of all - with voice. Facilitate and promote vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment beyond the traditional language laboratory environment by adding synchronous and asynchronous vocal collaboration to your course management system (CMS). Voice Tools include: Threaded Voice Boards, Embedded Voice Recordings, Voice-enabled Email, Voice Direct (voice chat), Voice Presentation, and the NEW Wimba Podcaster.

Course Genie You have Word documents but you can't easily put them online. Now you can. Quickly and easily convert your Microsoft Word documents into content for your Blackboard, Moodle, and WebCT courses. From one Word document you can generate a set of webpages that include navigation and interactive features that can quickly be uploaded to your course.