Video conferencing
made for education
A virtual classroom for your teachers and students
“Schools and universities deserve a video conferencing solution that’s made for education. A solution that provides them with the technical capabilities they need during these challenging times. Not something that’s recycled from the corporate world!”
– Andy Newell, Managing Director, IRIS Connect
Easily accessible
All you need in order to access Rooms is a browser window. No downloading and installing of software, and no additional plugins.
Fully equipped
Screensharing
Of course every good video conferencing software needs a screen sharing option. But we go one step further.
Whiteboard
Instead of simply screen sharing a presentation, you can upload it directly into the web conference and enable multi-user whiteboard features for annotations directly on the slides. Use a blank slide or squared paper to brainstorm and visualise ideas.
Breakout Rooms
Split your students into separate groups to work on individual tasks in their own breakout rooms. Set a time limit after which everyone will be automatically brought back to the main room or end the breakout rooms at any time at your discretion. You can also use this feature to have one-to-one conversations and team meetings.
Shared Notes
Public and private chat options are pretty standard, so we’ve got you covered there. However, in Rooms you also have the possibility to use shared notes with the option of creating bullet-point lists and then downloading these notes afterwards. You can even share them via email.
Full presenter control
When you aren’t physically in the same room with students, it can be difficult to know what they’re doing. That’s why we give you full control over what they see and which features they can use. Decide if they’re able to see each others’ webcams, send chat messages or edit shared notes. Mute or enable your student microphones and even give your teaching assistant moderator rights, so you can fully focus on the lesson.
Integrated recording
With Rooms your video conferences are easily captured and shared at the click of a button, for example with a pupil who couldn’t manage to join live.
Add additional files and highlight certain parts of the recording through time-stamped comments and engage in contextualised conversations with your pupils even after the live event is over; making it a great space for synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning.
See IRIS Connect Rooms live and in action!
Going beyond online teaching
As integrated part of the IRIS Connect platform, Rooms is also a great tool for CPD and effective teacher collaboration.
Easily connect with colleagues wherever they are, use recorded lessons to reflect on your teaching and identify areas of improvement or share with peers to showcase examples of good practice or ask for feedback.
Your students data doesn’t leave the room
At IRIS Connect we have over a decade of successfully managing over 250,000 hours of classroom video footage with the highest standards of security and full GDPR compliance.
When purchasing Rooms for your school, you’ll get your own dedicated server. There’s no shared storage space, so your data definitely doesn’t leave the room.
