WebRTC powered HTML5 virtual classroom in 50 languages
4.1/5 (45 reviews)BrainCert's HTML5 Virtual Classroom is designed to deliver real-time live classes online, engaging with students from all around the world. The solution comes with over 25 features for seamless synchronous and asynchronous collaboration capabilities between presenter (teacher) and attendees (students).
HTML5 Virtual Classroom emulates the aura of physical classrooms where users can access live and previously recorded sessions, as well as take part in premium face-to-face video and audio conferences with several interactive whiteboards. It is available in 50 languages, enabling students from almost any country to join.
BrainCert provides a secure low-latency infrastructure and a state-of-the-art HTML5 collaboration platform that is equipped to offer live classes, webinars, conferences, meeting to the audience anywhere. WebRTC technology enables the web browser to act as an effective video conference endpoint, eliminating the need for browser plug-ins, such as Flash.
HTML5 Virtual Classroom comes integrated into both E-Learning Platform and Enterprise LMS product offerings. Both BrainCert's new HTML5 and legacy Flash-based Virtual Classrooms can be integrated in any organization's website, CMS, LMS, or app using developer API. BrainCert also offers free plugins for CMSs like Joomla and WordPress at no additional cost.
Pros
This platform works very well for one-on-one reading instruction for kids in grades 4 and up. Sharing a screen with a student helps focus the student's attention, and using the writing and highlighting tools on the shared screen allows me (the instructor) instant feedback on the student's understanding. Misunderstandings can be cleared up immediately, before the student can learn bad habits from their misunderstanding.
Cons
While it generally works well, customer support is hard to access when there is a problem. It can take days to hear back from the company.
We used BrainCert to replace our previous whiteboard system that was based on Flash. BrainCert is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition we looked at and lets us reach clients who want to use their tablets to join sessions. I would recommend it to everyone.
Pros
The Virtual Whiteboard API made it easy to integrate BrainCert's whiteboard into our own tutoring system. The automatic session recording is incredible and a must-have feature for our one-on-one tutoring sessions to ensure quality control and safety. The whiteboard space also includes functionality to help users diagnose their connection and webcam/microphone issues which previously would come back to us in the form of support calls and emails. The whiteboard space itself worked amazingly on both PCs and tablets, has all the basic tools and more handy tools like Wolfram Alpha and YouTube that teachers could take advantage of.
Cons
As a developer, I noticed the API behaved unexpectedly in some places, but nothing particularly major. The whiteboard occasionally takes some time to upload PDFs, but this seems to have been improved in recent updates.
The Virtual Classroom has allowed us to connect with our students that we would not normally be able to reach.
The product is intuitive and we have received fantastic feedback from our students.
Pros
The ease in which it can be integrated.
The cross browser support is excellent.
The virtual classroom is particularly user friendly and intuitive to use.
The customer support has been awesome - the team always responds to my queries and have taken a lot of time to explain the product and how to optimally set up the server's for my clientele.
The convenience to share files and worksheets with students.
Cons
The screen sharing function does not always work
We are conducting small group classes for wide variety of subjects through HTML Virtual Classroom. This software allow us to create a virtual group class environment very easily.
Pros
compact...all in one solution. Video conferencing, screen sharing break rooms, whiteboard and lot more features make it suitable for a wide variety of classes.
Cons
user experience in mobile phones need to be improved. If there is an option for easily switching between full screen video and whiteboard in mobile browsers, it would be a handy tool for participating in classes on the go.
Overall I didn't like my experience, especially because in the last two weeks one of my students was not able to join the room. She lives in Italy and reported that she was seeing the message "Waiting for presenter". I am currently testing some other e-learning platforms because the company where I work is in the process of implementing online classes for all students from its franchisees in Brazil.
Pros
My favorite feature is the audio and video streaming service. It works pretty well. The whiteboard is very useful, but typing on it is not not working well. Some students have also reported that my text was not being displayed in the intended place - sometimes it was partially not visible for them. Sometimes text boxes are copied from one slide to another automatically. Changing the size of fonts doesn't work properly, too. Besides, the system doesn't save the font settings from one slide to another. I like the break-out room function, but it's really a pain on the neck to work with it. The voice and video transmissions have apparently improved, but I have had to use some other conferencing apps concomitantly to have a good voice and video transmission.
Cons
I really liked all the features that the platform offers, but all of the them have issues that impact the users' experience. Some of them were mentioned in the previous question.
Starter
FREE
Basic
$18.95/mo*
Pro
$48.95/mo*
Business
$98.95/mo*
Users can get started with a flexible FREE account, upgrade and downgrade premium features anytime.
HTML5 Virtual Classroom includes an equations editor, group chat, and a powerful annotation feature to draw over uploaded documents and presentations.
Below are some frequently asked questions for HTML5 Virtual Classroom.
HTML5 Virtual Classroom offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 19.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Starter
FREE
Basic
$18.95/mo*
Pro
$48.95/mo*
Business
$98.95/mo*
Users can get started with a flexible FREE account, upgrade and downgrade premium features anytime.
HTML5 Virtual Classroom offers the following features:
HTML5 Virtual Classroom has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
HTML5 Virtual Classroom supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
HTML5 Virtual Classroom has the following pricing plans:
Free, Subscription
HTML5 Virtual Classroom supports the following devices:
Android
HTML5 Virtual Classroom integrates with the following applications:
Joomla, Wordpress
HTML5 Virtual Classroom offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials