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How to attend a class on WiZiQ

by Vijay Kumar
Posted on 05 September, 2009

Please don't get me wrong!

This is one of the most frequent questions that I come across from my student/invitees!

At 56 my computer abilities are terrible but I have never found it difficult to use WiZiQ - after attending Nidhi + Vikram's sessions I was swimming Olympic class.

How much more simpler can it get other than merely clicking on a hyper-linked text to enter the class (even after a very simple one-time registration)?

But you'll be surprised that nearly 20% of the invitees call or mail me frantically asking how to enter my session! And I believe they are much more PC savvy than me for sure.

Is there a tutorial that I can either link my student/invitees that will enable them to familiarize themselves with the logging-in procedures? If it is a small file that can be downloaded and sent as a mail attachment, even better.

I want to thank the WiZiQ team for putting together this great platform and for allowing me to use their LVC.

Warm Regards

by Harman Singh posted on 06 September, 2009
Vijay,

Thanks for bringing this up. Just so you know, when we started WiZiQ and all along its development, this is one thing we wanted to make super simple. Which is why we decided to go with a unique URL approach for each class.
Although as you mentioned it is pretty easy to get in the class, we see that a few students still have trouble and we have seen the following reasons for that:
1. Since we are dependent on e-mail for sending class invites, a few of the invites go in junk folders and so some students say they didn't receive them at all. All we can do is comply with junk mail guidelines and have to leave the rest to the recipient of the mail - he can check his junk folder, mark WiZiQ e-mails as 'Never send to Spam' etc.
2. Students have signed up with one e-mail account but receive class invites on another e-mail address and so get some security message. We are trying to solve this problem with alternate e-mail addresses.
3. The students get lost on some other page in WiZiQ, say watching a tutorial and so they can't find their class. We are trying to solve this with our dynamic home page which will remind the user where his latest upcoming class is.

And BTW, we are coming up with a new version of class scheduling and attending module in about 6 weeks that will solve the problems I mentioned above and we will also add the 'Attending a WiZiQ Class' tutorial on the class page.
by Dr. Nellie Deutsch posted on 06 September, 2009
Vijay,

What I love most about WiZiQ is the caring support and willingness to listen that I have encountered in the past 2 years. The staff at WiZiQ have one goal in mind: to enhance the teaching/learning experience of its members. I don't know too many companies that are driven by the need to improve instruction and learning to such an extent.

Thank you for making it happen, Harman.

Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutch
by Vikrama Dhiman posted on 08 September, 2009
@maayaa Let us know a convenient time to connect with you. We would be happy to demonstrate how you can teach and earn. For starters, why dont you check out some learning requests.

@Jane : Let us know the URL you are using. Does it happen for every URL. Are you selecting "New Improved Audio/ Video" under more settings while scheduling a class. Try and not use this option.
by Jane Denizot posted on 06 September, 2009
WIZIQ is simple to use and I have just started getting used to the various ways of uploading files etc. However, I have a problem I can't put a video on. I can do the shared video from internet but when I click on the symbol and paste in a youtube link it just says sorry your video couldn't be uploaded try again? Can anyone tell me what I should do?
Thanks
Jane (Medilang, specialist in medical English)
by Pam Vass posted on 12 September, 2009
After trying out different virtual classroom environments, I find this is one of the simpler ones to access for students.

What works for my students is both:

1. Receiving e-mail invitations.
2. My sending them a tutorial (prepared by me) and helping them out through any messaging system at the the beginning of the session.

Thanks for your time and attention.

by maayaa posted on 06 September, 2009
what should i do if to start online classes and is there any other formalities to have a deal with you sir
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