Zoom is designed for meetings. MeritHub is designed for online teaching, tutoring & training.
Request a Demo Get Started for FreeA virtual classroom is a video conferencing software where teachers and students/learners engage each other using learning materials such as PPTs, PDFs, audio files, video files, quizzes, games, and much more through the online whiteboard. The difference with other video conferencing tools is that the online classroom offers an added feature-set that is essential to a learning environment and student engagement. Everything happens in real-time in the presence of teachers and provides the learners with an experience very close to traditional face-to-face teaching.
Multi-way Audio-Video Communication
Low latency, secure audio-video communication with your students.World’s Best Whiteboard
Collaboration and interactivity at their best with in-depth drawing and annotation tools.Lesson Recordings and Playback
Record all lessons in MP4 format, and share them with your students.Student Motivation and Engagement
Engage students using Whiteboards, Quizzes, and reward them for their accomplishments.Store, Share, and Annotate Files
Dedicated drive for every teacher, share and annotate PPT, PDF, DOC, and Images.Teacher and Student Screen Sharing
Share the complete screen or any specific window or browser tab.Real-Time Public and Private Messaging
Group chat and one-to-one private messaging with students.Embed Websites and Google Doc
Embed any website, Quizlet games, google docs, and spreadsheet on the whiteboardQuizzes, Polls, Question Bank and Leaderboard
Ultimate student engagement tools. Save everything for future use.Raise Hand and Reactions
Students can raise hand to ask questions or send reactions in the response.Breakout Rooms
Divide students into groups and send them to separate classrooms.Waiting Rooms
Enable waiting rooms to let selected students enter the classroom.Picture-in-picture Mode
Keep viewing student’s video while you are sharing your full screen.API: Integrate with Your Website, Moodle or WordPress
Comprehensive virtual classroom software API to enable integration with any website or app.Upload Your Own Videos or Play YouTube Videos
Upload Audio-video files and play them directly. Or play YouTube with URL.Easy Tutor and Student Management
Manage thousands of teachers and students under one organization.Calendar and Session scheduling
Schedule, one-time or permanent sessions, and receive reminders.On-Demand Session Booking
Share your calendar with students, and let them book the session.Analytics to Reduce No-shows
Get a report of no-shows in live sessions in one click.Automatic Attendance
Get automatic attendance report of sessions in a particular session or by date range.Join classes from any device
Laptop, iPad, Mobile phone, it just works.Custom Feedback Form
Get the student feedback by designing the custom form.Send Session Reports to Parents
Let teachers fill out session report at the end of the session to send it to parents.Highly Secure, Reliable and Scalable
Enterprise grade security and reliability. Your data is safe.Inherently low latency- Based on WebRTC open framework.
Secure connection between participants and servers.
Platform and device independence. All major browsers and devices support WebRTC.
Students/participants can stop any specific video for them if they are on low bandwidth.
Teachers can control whether learners can publish mic and cam in the live class or not.
Participants can increase/decrease the quality of the video as per their choice.
Collaborate real time with participants.
Free hand drawing with stylus pen and iPad.
One-click content sharing.
Real-time co-annotation on Pdfs and Ppts.
Save & download annotated content.
Mathematical shapes and graphs with desmos integration.
Darg-drop text and images. Allow students to annotate and solve assignments.
Open multiple A4 size whiteboards.
Share any specific application or all open windows.
You can share multiple application screens simultaneously.
Multiple participants can share screens at same time for deeper collaboration.
Take the screenshot of the student's screen and annotate on it to explain in a better way.
See screen in whiteboard area or make it full screen.
Upload your existing content once. Use and share it unlimited times.
Consumes 50 times less bandwidth than screen sharing.
Store Ppts, Pdfs, Audio/videos files, Docs and Excels files easily on cloud.
Access them from any device.
View and play files on the web, no need to download.
Annotate them with whiteboard tools.
Arrange files in hierarchical folders easily.
find content with search and bread crumbs .
Every teacher and student get an exclusive drive .
Admin can put files in "Shared Drive" that all teachers can access in the classroom .
Interact in a group chat or private on-to-one chat with students.
Students & teachers can text-chat with-in classroom.
Students can raise their hand to indicate that they need something from the host or teacher.
They can ask specific questions that only the host or moderator can see.
Students can share feedback through emojis.
The teacher and the moderator can manage students' permission to publish cam, mic, and writing on the whiteboard.
Teacher can mute any student, stop their video, or do these actions for all the students in the classroom.
Zoom students' videos, bring them on full screen and capture what they are showing on camera.
Enable waiting room or lock the rooms to restrict the entry of new participants.
Disable chat for a particular student or all the students in the classroom.
Mute classroom in one go.
Remove all chat messages.
Clear all whiteboards.
Increase/decrease quality of video based on available bandwidth.
Enable/disable whiteboard download for students.
Remove & block participants.
Divide students into breakout rooms, send content to specific breakout rooms.
Enable waiting room and permit students to get into the classroom.
MeritHub Online classroom software doesn't limit itself to just screen sharing like Zoom. You can embed:
Just pick the URL of the YoutTube video and bring it to the classroom. Play it synchronously on all students' screens. All students will see the video directly from YouTube and the teacher will control it from their own screen. Google docs/sheets: Change the settings of the doc and embed it in MeritHub whiteboard through url.
Embed websites like Wikipedia, BBC, and other webpages.
If the game provides embed code, you can embed it in MeritHub whiteboard. For example Quizlet.
Generate questions in different formats like multiple choice, fill in the blacks, matchmaking, short answer polls etc.
Share a single question or a complete quiz.
The mode can be teacher-paced or learner-paced. In teacher-paced mode, the teacher can navigate all students through all questions. In the leaner-paced mode, students can complete quiz at their own pace.
The teacher gets complete analytics of all students as well as each question. Students can see the leaderboard after each question to see their rank in the classroom.
Learn and teach anytime, anywhere with a fully responsive design for all devices to support critical workflows. Everything including classes, content and recordings can be accessed from any portable devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
All components are horizontally scalable and different customers’ load can be distributed on server farms.
Deliver one-to-one classes, small group classes, or large webinars including 1000 participants.
One lesson can use multiple audio/video and signaling servers in order to manage a large number of participants.
Infreatsure adds servers at the run time automatically to manage the load.
Your recordings and file conversion never get into the queue
All the databases are only accessible through authenticated APIs.
The system is a combination of 50+ micro services and each service can be loaded on multiple servers.
Despite being a real-time broadcast, all the content and videos of teachers and students are recorded so that it can be watched later.
The classes are recorded on the servers on our cloud, no need to record classes on the local machine.
Participants who missed your live class or webinar can now have access to recordings whenever they like.
All recordings will be added to your personal library and you can use them in the next class or session.
No need to share recordings with students explicitly, they are available on the same page that students visited while entering the online classroom.
The teacher or admin can choose to hide or delete the recordings.
MeritHub got a comprehensive scheduling or booking system, where the admin can schedule lessons for teachers or teachers can schedule on their own and the admin can monitor.
Schedule one-time sessions: The one-time session will generate an exclusive link for a particular session. The next session will require another link.
Schedule permanent & recurring sessions: Permanent sessions can be used for a series of live sessions. The link for the online classroom will remain the same. This means that you don’t need to send classroom links to students again and again. It will be a big relief if you are teaching a series of lessons to students.
Attach files for offline view: If you want your students to see files before or after the session, you can attach files on that particular session's page. Students can see it on MeritHub players or download them if you have given them permission.
Calendar: Teachers can set their availability. Admin can see the calendar of teachers and can schedule lessons for them. Teachers get notifications.
On-demand Bookings: Admin can map teachers and students. A student sees her teachers, checks the availability, and books the lesson with a teacher. That teacher gets the notification.
Live attendance
Get who is late, who is absent, and who is online and
offline in the live classroom in just one click. Reduce no-shows with real-time
attendance.
After lesson attendance
Get sessions wise, user wise of time-wise detailed attendance report. Get answers like
the number of tutoring hours a month? Who can be late? Who was absent.
Feedback
Design a custom feedback form and prompt students to fill it out after every lesson.
This helps you keep eye on the quality of teaching in all the classes happening in your
institution. As an admin, you can see the feedback on all the lessons.
Session Reports
You can assign parents to the students. At the end of each class, teachers can write a
progress report that will be emailed to students’ parents automatically.
Invoicing
You can set a subscription, raise credit requests, keep the track of the balance and
automate the invoicing process.
Students can send their feedback through emojis and chat.
Teachers can give various activities and assignments to students on the whiteboard or in separate breakout rooms.
Students can raise and directly ask doubts and questions whiteout showing to the whole classroom.
Teachers can send heart or thumbs up to motivate students.
Teachers can reward students by showcasing their videos in the middle of the classroom in the rain of colors.