Educators across the world are using Webex more than ever to connect their students and provide the best education possible. This event is intended to share two unique success stories from our guests Ahmad Taamneh and Roray Stewart. Join our Education without Borders event to hear how one adoption effort started from scratch as well as another where organizers had to think quickly on their feet. Our guests will share their recipe for their adoption success and provides tips on how to bridge the distance between students.
About our Panelists
Ahmad Taamneh is an experienced collaboration expert helping small, medium, and enterprise size customers in designing, implementing, and using their collaboration and contact center solutions. As a Pre-Sales & Technical Supervisor at Jordan Business Systems/MidisGlobal group, Ahmad leads the pre-sales and post-sales activities of the collaboration team at JBS and support the management to expand the business and the collaboration portfolio.
Ahmad is a father of a daughter and 2 sons, travel, food, and sports lover from Amman, Jordan. Feel free to connect with him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmadtaamneh/
Roray Stewart - As the Senior Videoconference Engineer at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Roray has worked with video conference technologies since 2001 and in his senior role since 2012. He resides and does his work from a remote Scottish Island group in the Northern Atlantic - the Shetland Islands. Believe it or not, he is considered a Viking! On the island on which he lives, he takes part in some of the fire festivals that celebrate his Viking heritage.
Make sure to reply to this thread with any questions you have about the event or would like me to ask our panelists.
Hello all,
Good news! The recording of this event is now available. Check it out here - https://community.cisco.com/t5/webex-user-videos/webex-community-adoption-spotlight-education-without-borders/ba-p/4289693#M26
@Nashaatmusa asked a question in the event I'd love comments on!
"Are exams for students a part of the Webex education experience, if so - how do you test comprehension of students?"
My answer from the Webex capability standpoint: Webex Training has a testing engine built in. Many customers leverage this, or integrate with their LMS to use the capabilities of the LMS to administer testing. You can determine what your requirements are and see which option suits your needs most effectively. We have documentation for Webex testing here: https://help.webex.com/en-us/n82bh9v/Test-and-Grade-in-Cisco-Webex-Training and information on our Education Connector here: https://help.webex.com/en-us/ngd7brv/The-Cisco-Webex-Education-Connector-for-Teachers. Your Cisco team can help guide you to consult on what best suits your needs.
What have other educators done and how did it work?
We are using the Education Connector with Schoology so teacher's are using the LMS testing features for their classes. We have some adult ed and community classes that don't integrate with Schoology and have used the Webex Testing. The testing features are very robust and provide a great resource for them to easily provide a test within Webex.
It isn't used very often though mainly because it's not embedded within meetings. Our staff use Webex Meetings for almost all classes and having to use a different app and post a new meeting link when a test is needed in a class is problematic for students and sometimes teacher's as well. Hopefully this will be migrated to Webex Meetings as part of the updates.
