Thinsy ClassAndLab™ provides

• Web Conferencing that is superior to WebEx,
• Virtual Lab that is more feature rich than VMware
• Learning Management System that is better than stock Moodle.

• Corporate training divisions
• Engineering colleges
• Computer training institutes
• Virtual universities.

The Challenge

It is a well-known fact that lecture based classes, without an associated practical lab, result in poor quality learning. Students are prone to forget the material quickly.

The Solution

Thinsy ClassAndLab™ is a product designed to solve this problem. It combines a live virtual class with a custom individual virtual lab for each student, both delivered over the cloud. Students participate in the live virtual class over the Internet or corporate Intranet, and follow along on their lab. Live classes are recorded, and students can playback critical segments of the class later, in order to re-in force learning.

How it works

Thinsy ClassAndLab™ consists of three components:

1. Thinsy Virtual Classroom
2. Thinsy Virtual Lab
3. Thinsy Learning Management System

Thinsy ClassAndLab™ can be delivered

as software that you install and operate in your own datacenter

or

as a cloud based service accessed through the Internet.

Thinsy Virtual Classroom offers video conferencing, audio conferencing and desktop sharing over a network connection of 512Kbps or more. The class leading architecture includes the following features:

• Students need no client software install – any flash enabled browser works as the client
• Shared desktop encoded in h264 produces razor sharp desktop even at a low 256Kbps bandwidth
• Moderator video can also be encoded using h264 to reduce bandwidth requirements
• Raise hand function allows moderator to fully control the class
• Recording of classroom is easy and seamless
• Edge Origin design of virtual classroom allows for extremely high scaling
• Inbuilt microphone and chat functionality allow students to participate actively in class
• Works over port 1935(non SSL) and 443(SSL)

Thinsy Virtual Lab is virtualization based lab manager software that enables each student to have his/her own custom lab.

• Full GUI Lab for any software that can run on a PC (Eclipse, Tomcat, MS Visual C, etc.)
• Students need to install no software at all – any flash browser works as the client. Client can connect over port 1935(non SSL) and 443 (SSL)
• Lab Virtual Machine can run Windows or Linux
• Desktop of Lab VM is encoded using h264, and produces a sharp display inside the browser, at a low 256kbps bandwidth.
• Support for bandwidth control with uncompressed desktop in high bandwidth /LAN environment
• Fully integrated with Thinsy Learning Management System, and has API hooks for integration into other Learning Management Systems

Thinsy Learning Management System is a component installed into Moodle and set as a portal server that manages courses, students, and teachers. It is the portal that ties together the virtual class functionality of Thinsy Virtual Classroom and the virtual lab functionality of Thinsy Virtual Lab into Moodle Learning Management System.

• Web based portal for managing courses, teachers and students
• Teachers can schedule and record multimedia presentations for the courses and upload the presentations.
• Teachers can setup lab components for the course.
• Teachers can setup questions/quiz/assignments for students.
• Teachers can upload resource materials and handouts for students.
• Teachers can schedule live classes or live interactions to answer questions for students.
• Students can enroll into learning management system and enroll into courses.
• Students can view the multimedia presentation from the course.
• Students can schedule and login to the lab to try out experiments while the presentation is going on or to do the assignments.
• Students can download resource materials and handouts from courses and submit assignments and answer quizzes.