Best Virtual Classroom Software for Online Teaching & Tutoring

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What is Virtual Classroom?

A 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.

Virtual Classroom tools specifically designed to teach online

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Multi-way Audio-Video Communication

Low latency, secure audio-video communication with your students.
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World’s Best Whiteboard

Collaboration and interactivity at their best with in-depth drawing and annotation tools.
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Lesson Recordings and Playback

Record all lessons in MP4 format, and share them with your students.
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Student Motivation and Engagement

Engage students using Whiteboards, Quizzes, and reward them for their accomplishments.
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Store, Share, and Annotate Files

Dedicated drive for every teacher, share and annotate PPT, PDF, DOC, and Images.
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Teacher and Student Screen Sharing

Share the complete screen or any specific window or browser tab.
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Real-Time Public and Private Messaging

Group chat and one-to-one private messaging with students.
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Embed Websites and Google Doc

Embed any website, Quizlet games, google docs, and spreadsheet on the whiteboard
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Quizzes, Polls, Question Bank and Leaderboard

Ultimate student engagement tools. Save everything for future use.
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Raise Hand and Reactions

Students can raise hand to ask questions or send reactions in the response.
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Breakout Rooms

Divide students into groups and send them to separate classrooms.
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Waiting Rooms

Enable waiting rooms to let selected students enter the classroom.
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Picture-in-picture Mode

Keep viewing student’s video while you are sharing your full screen.
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API: Integrate with Your Website, Moodle or WordPress

Comprehensive virtual classroom software API to enable integration with any website or app.
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Upload Your Own Videos or Play YouTube Videos

Upload Audio-video files and play them directly. Or play YouTube with URL.
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Easy Tutor and Student Management

Manage thousands of teachers and students under one organization.
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Calendar and Session scheduling

Schedule, one-time or permanent sessions, and receive reminders.
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On-Demand Session Booking

Share your calendar with students, and let them book the session.
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Analytics to Reduce No-shows

Get a report of no-shows in live sessions in one click.
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Automatic Attendance

Get automatic attendance report of sessions in a particular session or by date range.
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Join classes from any device

Laptop, iPad, Mobile phone, it just works.
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Custom Feedback Form

Get the student feedback by designing the custom form.
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Send Session Reports to Parents

Let teachers fill out session report at the end of the session to send it to parents.
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Highly Secure, Reliable and Scalable

Enterprise grade security and reliability. Your data is safe.

Low latency, secure Audio/Video communication

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    Inherently low latency- Based on WebRTC open framework.

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    Secure connection between participants and servers.

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    Platform and device independence. All major browsers and devices support WebRTC.

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    Students/participants can stop any specific video for them if they are on low bandwidth.

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    Teachers can control whether learners can publish mic and cam in the live class or not.

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    Participants can increase/decrease the quality of the video as per their choice.

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World's Best Online Whiteboard

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    Collaborate real time with participants.

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    Free hand drawing with stylus pen and iPad.

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    One-click content sharing.

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    Real-time co-annotation on Pdfs and Ppts.

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    Save & download annotated content.

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    Mathematical shapes and graphs with desmos integration.

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    Darg-drop text and images. Allow students to annotate and solve assignments.

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    Open multiple A4 size whiteboards.

Multiple simultaneous screen sharing

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    Share any specific application or all open windows.

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    You can share multiple application screens simultaneously.

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    Multiple participants can share screens at same time for deeper collaboration.

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    Take the screenshot of the student's screen and annotate on it to explain in a better way.

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    See screen in whiteboard area or make it full screen.

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Drive to store, share and annotate files

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    Upload your existing content once. Use and share it unlimited times.

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    Consumes 50 times less bandwidth than screen sharing.

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    Store Ppts, Pdfs, Audio/videos files, Docs and Excels files easily on cloud.

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    Access them from any device.

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    View and play files on the web, no need to download.

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    Annotate them with whiteboard tools.

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    Arrange files in hierarchical folders easily.

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    find content with search and bread crumbs .

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    Every teacher and student get an exclusive drive .

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    Admin can put files in "Shared Drive" that all teachers can access in the classroom .

Real-time messaging, ask questions, raise hand and share feedback

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    Interact in a group chat or private on-to-one chat with students.

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    Students & teachers can text-chat with-in classroom.

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    Students can raise their hand to indicate that they need something from the host or teacher.

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    They can ask specific questions that only the host or moderator can see.

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    Students can share feedback through emojis.

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Advanced people management

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    The teacher and the moderator can manage students' permission to publish cam, mic, and writing on the whiteboard.

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    Teacher can mute any student, stop their video, or do these actions for all the students in the classroom. 

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    Zoom students' videos, bring them on full screen and capture what they are showing on camera.

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    Enable waiting room or lock the rooms to restrict the entry of new participants.

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    Disable chat for a particular student or all the students in the classroom.

Everything you need to control the classroom

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    Mute classroom in one go.

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    Remove all chat messages.

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    Clear all whiteboards.

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    Increase/decrease quality of video based on available bandwidth.

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    Enable/disable whiteboard download for students.

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    Remove & block participants.

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    Divide students into breakout rooms, send content to specific breakout rooms.

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    Enable waiting room and permit students to get into the classroom.

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Embed google docs, webpages, YouTube or any games

    MeritHub Online classroom software doesn't limit itself to just screen sharing like Zoom. You can embed:

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    YouTube Videos

    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.

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    Webpages

    Embed websites like Wikipedia, BBC, and other webpages.

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    Games

    If the game provides embed code, you can embed it in MeritHub whiteboard. For example Quizlet.

Engage students through gamified quizzes

MeritHub is the only platform to offer live, real-time quizzes in any video conferencing solution.
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    Rich Question Type

    Generate questions in different formats like multiple choice, fill in the blacks, matchmaking, short answer polls etc.

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    Sharing

    Share a single question or a complete quiz.

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    Attempt Mode

    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.

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    Leaderboard and Analytics

    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.

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Join classes from any device

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.

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Super scalable infrastructure for online and hybrid education

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    Scalable for millions of concurrent users

    All components are horizontally scalable and different customers’ load can be distributed on server farms.

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    Large Webinars

    Deliver one-to-one classes, small group classes, or large webinars including 1000 participants.

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    Multi-server lesson

    One lesson can use multiple audio/video and signaling servers in order to manage a large number of participants.

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    Auto scalable

    Infreatsure adds servers at the run time automatically to manage the load.

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    No queue

    Your recordings and file conversion never get into the queue

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    Secure Access

    All the databases are only accessible through authenticated APIs.

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    Microservices based

    The system is a combination of 50+ micro services and each service can be loaded on multiple servers.

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Record all classes in MP4 video format

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    Despite being a real-time broadcast, all the content and videos of teachers and students are recorded so that it can be watched later.

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    The classes are recorded on the servers on our cloud, no need to record classes on the local machine.

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    Participants who missed your live class or webinar can now have access to recordings whenever they like.

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    All recordings will be added to your personal library and you can use them in the next class or session.

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    No need to share recordings with students explicitly, they are available on the same page that students visited while entering the online classroom.

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    The teacher or admin can choose to hide or delete the recordings.

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Class scheduling, on-demand bookings, and calendar

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    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.

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    Schedule one-time sessions: The one-time session will generate an exclusive link for a particular session. The next session will require another link.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Calendar: Teachers can set their availability. Admin can see the calendar of teachers and can schedule lessons for them. Teachers get notifications.

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    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.

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Attendance, Analytics, Feedback, Parent Reports, and Invoicing

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Invoicing
    You can set a subscription, raise credit requests, keep the track of the balance and automate the invoicing process.

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Students' engagement, interactivity, and motivation at their best

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    Students can send their feedback through emojis and chat.

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    Teachers can give various activities and assignments to students on the whiteboard or in separate breakout rooms.

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    Students can raise and directly ask doubts and questions whiteout showing to the whole classroom.

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    Teachers can send heart or thumbs up to motivate students.

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    Teachers can reward students by showcasing their videos in the middle of the classroom in the rain of colors.

Virtual Classroom Faqs

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How Merithub’s Virtual Classroom is different from other meeting tools like ZOOM and Microsoft Teams?

  • Zoom and Microsoft Teams are popular video conferencing software for online meetings and they are good for meetings. But they provide 20% of what is needed to run online tutoring programs. They have optimized their workflow for corporates whereas MeritHub has optimized its workflow for online teaching. Normal Video conferencing software offers just screen sharing. But along with the screen sharing MeritHub offers a dedicated drive for teachers where they can upload all their study material in the format of ppt, pdf, doc, excel, audio/video, or images and bring them to MeritHub whiteboard in one click. MeritHub whiteboard comes with super rich annotation capabilities. Once you upload files in the MeritHub drive, you can reuse them in different classes again and again.
  • Zoom or other video conferencing software will never give features like playing gamified quizzes inside it in the presence of the teacher. There is no workflow to manage tutors, students, their roles and permissions, invoicing, real-time student engagement analytics, reports to reduce no-shows, structured content sharing, teacher’s availability, calendar, scheduling, bookings and many other things.
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Will your team provide a free virtual classroom demo?

Yes. Please write us at [email protected].
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Do you give a trial for MeritHub classroom?

Yes, two weeks trial is available.
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Benefits of Virtual Classroom Software?

A virtual classroom enables you to do all the teaching activities in a better and more personalized way that you were already doing in the physical classroom. It provides all the tools to help tutors to deliver powerful and engaging instructions. Powerful whiteboard tools and file annotations help you to explain any topic effectively whereas gamified quizzes help you to understand the level of expertise of students on certain topics. Recordings of classes helps students to review the topics whenever they want. Whether it is one to one classes, small group classes or large webinars, MeritHub Online Classroom Software handles it really well.
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What is the price?

MeritHub price depends on various factors including the number of teachers, number of sessions happening in a month, and number of sessions you want to record, and number of teachers.
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How can I buy the licenses?

You can write us at [email protected], we will facilitate the buying and account up-gradation process.
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What is your onboarding process?

We train your teachers, help your developers to integrate API with your website, and answer your questions through all mediums.
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Where can I get the access to virtual classroom software?

Go to https://merithub.com/ and create an account. You can go through MeritHub tutorials to learn more about using MeritHub.