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WebTrain presentation facilities are very good.

WebTrain allows PowerPoint slides and images of different kinds to be easily loaded and displayed through WebTrain Whiteboard/presentation facility.
Entire presentations can be uploaded in one shot and even complete folders containing several images can be easily uploaded to the presentation area.
Image file formats supported are .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .wmf and .ico.

To load PowerPoint slides one needs simply to click on the folder icon appearing at the bottom of the screen while in the WhiteBoard mode.

Navigation controls are extremely simple and effective providing both a drop down menu to access all slides within a presentation and previous and next arrow buttons to easily progress in the presentation. A unique feature allows also to preview the name of the next slide and its file size before showcasing to the audience. Very handy. ????

A red progress indicator bar provides visual feedback to the presenter as to when each slide has fully loaded. ????

Another extremely handy feature allows the presenter moderator to see when each one of the participants has actually finished receiving the slide/image being broadcast.

Whiteboard tools and live markup facilities can all be fully used when displaying a presentation.

Users can easily grab a screenshot of the image/slide being presented or they can choose to save them to disk. Both functions are accessible through simple and easily recognizable buttons in the "image" related toolbar at the bottom of the WebTrain interface.

Quality of the displayed presentation is very good and any user can print anyone of the slides/images being presented, something not always available in other online presentation tools.

Users can also select to go in a full screen-like mode in which much of the WebTrain interface is hidden from view and all of the WebTrain window screen estate is devoted to display the selected presentation. Participants can easily turn on and off this feature on their own.

WebTrain facilitates also the use of PowerPoint and rich-media files like videos or music files that are hosted at a specific URL. Thorugh a simple dialog box WebTrain allows you to call up that media file on the Internet and to have all other session participants synch with you in accessing and viewing/listening its contents. Due to varied degrees of bandwidth available to each user the time required to view and playback the whole clip or presentation may vary greatly across users.

WebTrain facilities also employ a feature called "auto-resolution scaling" which allows attendess having monitors set at a resolution lower than the one of the presenter to receive an automatically adjusted fitting their screen.

Of note for presenters is also WebTrain effective recent implementation of a "remote mouse pointer". This is the ability to show "live" your mouse cursor as it moves on the screen to all of the meeting participants. During an online presentation presentation this greatly facilitates the presenter task of pointing to certain visual or data elements on a slide and acts in all respects like a presenter's laser pointer.

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Posted on September 12, 2003 at 12:24 PM

Updated on November 17, 2003 at 03:05 PM

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