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Welcome to the Centra Resource Center
What is Centra?
Centra is a web conferencing program which enables a group of people to interact with one another in a virtual online meeting environment. Centra can be accessed "live" anytime from anywhere attendees have access to a computer and an Internet connection. All meetings using Centra are automatically recorded, so those unable to make the live meeting are able to playback the meeting at a later time. Through Centra, instructors or meeting leaders can set up classes or meeting events which provide them with the following capabilities:
- Audibly communicate with others in the class or event
- Utilize live video streams of other user's webcams
- Display and markup a whiteboard
- Display and markup Power Point presentations and digital photos
- Play audio files, video files for students or meeting attendees
- Share your desktop to demonstrate the use of a program or take students or meeting attendees on a tour of the web
- Allow students to meet in Centra on their own for group assignments and organizational meetings
- Anonymously survey students or meeting attendees
- Control the flow of discussion in large online classes, meetings or conferences
- Communicate privately with students or meeting attendees though text chat
- Setup breakout rooms to enable students or meeting attendees to have private discussions on their own during a class or meeting
- Create and administer online exams, which can be automatically graded and reported to the Instructor or meeting leader
In addition to Centra's primary use serving as a classroom for distance education classes, Centra can also be used for a wide variety of applications. Here are some examples of how Centra is currently being used at ECU:
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Project presentations
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Office hours
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Guest lectures
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Online streamed recordings
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Software demonstrations
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Student small group meetings
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Student organizational meetings
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International exchanges
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Online conference sessions
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Research collaboration
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Dissertation defense
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Hybrid courses
If you would like to attend one of our Centra Training courses, log into SharePoint at: http://training.ecu.edu to view the ECU training calendar. We offer a basic "Centra Training and Integration Course" as well as "Centra New and Advanced Features Course". Once you find the class in which you wish to enroll, click on it and follow the prompts. If we are between trainings or the scheduled trainings do not work for you, feel free to contact the Centra Administrator and someone would be happy to come meet with you one-on-one.
If your department has faculty who are interested in Centra and you would like us to come to the location of your choosing for training, we would be happy to do so. Just contact the Centra Administrator for more information.
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