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Pronto Instant Messenger
Pronto is a free instant messaging and voice chat tool that allows students and instructors to spontaneously meet live online at any time to discuss their coursework. Pronto works with Blackboard to automatically populate students' contact lists with their classmates' names, thereby making it easy for students to spontaneously collaborate live online.
While Pronto offers many similar features as other instant messaging tools such as AIM, Yahoo and MSN Instant Messenger, Pronto is unique to education because it integrates with Blackboard, thereby automatically populating each student's contact list each semester with the names of every student in their classes (and Blackboard committee/group sites). When one logins to Pronto, one instantly sees who's online from their classes and other Blackboard sites (without even logging into Blackboard). Pronto runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X computers.
Benefits
- Application Sharing for real-time display of any document or application on your computer
- Blended Audio and Video for face-to-face contact and more natural communication
- State-of-the-art Whiteboard to harness the power of visual instruction anytime, anywhere.
- Office Hours for holding online office hours and managing individual attention with a large number of users
- Help Desks for making all of your institution's IT, Library, or Registrars services available online.
- Broadcast Notifications for sending institution-wide broadcast messages to every Wimba Pronto user on campus
What is Pronto?
Pronto is a free instant messaging and voice chat tool that allows students and instructors to spontaneously meet live online at any time to discuss their coursework. Pronto works with Blackboard to automatically populate students' contact lists with their classmates' names, thereby making it easy for students to spontaneously collaborate live online.
While Pronto offers many similar features as other instant messaging tools such as AIM, Yahoo and MSN Instant Messenger, Pronto is unique to education because it integrates with Blackboard, thereby automatically populating each student's contact list each semester with the names of every student in their classes (and Blackboard committee/group sites). When one logins to Pronto, one instantly sees who's online from their classes and other Blackboard sites (without even logging into Blackboard). Pronto runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X computers.
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