Virtual classrooms and limitless collaboration: Digitalization is changing how we learn and teach. With Zoom X and Webex X, Telekom offers secure access to platforms that connect learners and educational institutions flexibly and interactively.
Learning from anywhere and using multimedia is no longer a topic of the future. It is a lived reality – at schools, universities and in educational centers for training and further education. It’s not that easy to find suitable digital tools.
What conditions are placed on the tools?
- Easy to use: Teachers and learners want to focus on the learning process instead of wasting time with complicated technology: Intuitive user guidance is the top priority.
- Please do that Flexibility and versatile application options: Learning platforms must cover different teaching formats – from small group work to interactive online lectures to team-oriented project work.
- Hybrid models: Regardless of whether face-to-face teaching is combined with digital learning or participants are at different locations – learning works everywhere.
- integration: Many educational institutions already use digital tools. New platforms should fit in easily.
- Support for everyone: Not every educational institution has IT professionals – simple training and reliable technical support are required. In order to tease out all the extras beyond the basic functions.
Zoom X and Webex X: What can the tools do?
Classics such as Zoom X and Webex X offer proven advantages for this.
With ZoomXEducation Telekom provides schools and universities with a secure platform for digital teaching – whether online or hybrid. Functions such as chat, surveys or group work ensure active participation. Parents’ evenings or conferences can also be organized digitally. Users can now also access the Zoom AI Companion. This artificial intelligence can automate routine tasks and provide intelligent support in meetings: practical if you are sick or if someone is late to the event and the AI summarizes what was said and assigned tasks. The central administration of the licenses makes handling the setup simple and clear.
Similar to Zoom X Education also offers Webex X with the Webex Suite various tools for hybrid learning. The integrated Webex Suite supports interactive group work, for example in meeting breakout rooms or on digital whiteboards. Slido enables interactive surveys, feedback and quizzes, lectures can be recorded and made available as a knowledge database in a vidcast library. The range therefore also includes video devices for classrooms and lecture halls with integrated AI for focused recording of the speakers by the camera as well as for suppressing disturbing background noises. Webex boards or room systems with additional smart microphones ensure optimal audio capture even in large rooms or with speech from different directions. In addition, education providers can AI-powered assistants Recourse: These answer questions independently using websites, PDF documents or other sources – for example about registrations or lectures – and thereby relieve the burden on secretariats. An administrator at the educational institution can use the so-called Control Hub to centrally manage all Webex services and users.
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences: Digital learning and working can be so easy
For a university, a platform for digital collaboration not only means modern teaching, it also facilitates research, exchange and cooperation – also internationally. With around 7,500 students in seven departments at the locations in Bernburg, Dessau and Köthen and the State Studies College Anhalt University the largest university in Saxony-Anhalt. She chose Webex X. Lecturers and students from over 110 nations use the platform for secure, flexible and location-independent communication and project work. The solution is fully integrated into the existing Cisco campus infrastructure and complements voice over IP communication and central administration via Cisco Communications Manager. Next Generation Firewalls from Palo Alto Networks ensure network security.
Security – essential for educational institutions
Whether personal data from pupils and students or confidential research documents – learning platforms must comply with the strict EU data protection requirements. For Zoom With Webex
Support is just as important for institutions without their own IT specialists: Telekom supports educational institutions exactly where they need it. Whether training, technical support, fully managed IT infrastructures or planning the digitalization strategy – everything can be individually adapted and implemented without any worries.
By the way, a basic requirement for all solutions: Even with a high number of users, the connection must remain stable and must not cause any technical frustration. Failures or connection problems can significantly impact the success of the lesson.
Without a network, there can be no digitization in schools: Schools that rely on fiber optics create the basis for a sustainable digital infrastructure. Fiber optic is the basis for stable and fast internet and comprehensive WiFi, is less susceptible to interference and is much more energy efficient
• With 1 Mbit/s per user A “good basic service” is guaranteed – ideal for web access, emails and cloud services.
• 2 Mbit/s per user correspond to the “comfort zone” for using video streams, learning platforms and larger file transfers in parallel and without bottlenecks.
• For schools with intensive digital use (tablets, cloud backups, video lessons) are more than 1 Gbit/s for the entire school recommended. That’s about the same 1 Mbit/s per student with around 1,000 devices.
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