By tapping the potential of enterprise grade instant messaging (IM), educators can effectively promote learning and provide numerous institutional benefits for schools and universities. Those benefits include:
- Facilitating real-time, presence-based communication and collaboration among students, faculty, campuses, and departments and districts
- Securing confidential information
- Accelerating workflow
- Protecting against viruses and SPIM
Jabber, Inc. understands the needs of educators and students and provides proven IM solutions that are simple, secure, scalable, extensible, multi-protocol, and interoperable. Jabber products are backed by a company that has understood from its founding that software used in a production environment must be supportable and upgradable, and that means software backed by people: from developers and designers to support staff and professional services experts.
With the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform™ (Jabber XCP™), educational institutions can:
Enable Class Forums
- Use IM and group chat to supplement Blackboard Academic Suite™ capabilities
- Facilitate group chat based forums regardless of deployed e-Education software or services
- Post and discuss assignments
- Provide remote office hour access
- Hold members-only topical discussion or study groups
- Set keyword filters and receive notifications based on keywords
- Log and archive discussion histories for easy reference
Provide Secure, Efficient Communication on a Standardized Platform
- Broadcast alerts instantly to thousands of recipients
- Enable real-time IM and group chat among students
- Provide secure communication between faculty, staff, and students
Institutes of higher education receive the following additional benefits:
Improve Student and Administration Interactions
- Address financial aid and admission questions in real time with one-to-one IM
- Receive auto-notifications when forms are received and processed
Enable Real-time Communications across Geographic Boundaries
- Enable real-time communication between parents and students
- Provide secure server-to-server communication among faculty, staff, and students at other campuses or universities
Fortune 500 companies, government agencies ,and Wall Street firms depend on Jabber, Inc. solutions. Now, educational institutions can have the confidence of a proven, secure, and interoperable IM and group chat solution to meet their technology needs.
