Measure your audience response - The ShowTime Way.
Raising one's hand was the ancient style of getting people to acknowledge a speaker. People clapped to show their appreciation and booed to show their disapproval since the Roman times. Even today, in many senates and parliaments 'yays' and 'nays' are registered verbally. But, how can one genuinely measure audience response? The solution was in the form of an Audience Response System (ARS). An ARS is a tool that is used to connect speakers to their participants. This helped in measuring audience
Launching TrainerCentral: A powerful new training platform
Hello ShowTime users, We're thrilled to introduce a new and more advanced platform called TrainerCentral to make your training experience better than ever. TrainerCentral is designed with all of ShowTime's capabilities but also offers a plethora of
4 exciting enhancements to enrich your digital training experience
With access to education having been made much easier through eLearning, the digital education marketplace is now making greater strides. To keep up with this exciting pace, we're excited to reveal ShowTime's latest enhancements, released over the past few weeks, to make your training experience more enjoyable and productive. Re-order your On-Demand training materials to suit your convenience When you customize On-demand courses, there is always a specific order in which you want your learners to view your
How to make your training interactive with ShowTime.
Susan is a corporate trainer. A very active one too. She conducts at least 2 sessions a week. Like most trainers, Susan believes that delivering effective training sessions are of paramount importance. Recently however, Susan found her trainees distracted. They were either checking mail or surfing the web on their smartphones. She assumed that the trainees do not find the training content interesting. To ensure her classes were appealing, Susan constantly changed her content to suit her audience.
Announcement: Audience Polling for Zoho ShowTime.
ShowTime polling lets the presenter create and launch polls during the session and project results to your audiences in real time. Highlights: ShowTime's polling is completely free! Your audience can connect through attend.zoho.com (on their browser) or from their smart phones by downloading the ShowTime Viewer app from the App Store and Play Store. ShowTime polls are available for Windows, iOS, Android and PowerPoint users. Set polls for a presentation in 4 quick steps: Get started: All you need
Introducing the “Open House” feature in Zoho ShowTime
Hi all! Zoho ShowTime has always kept pace with exciting innovations and great ideas. Our objective is to focus on effective team collaboration and greater attendee engagement for every training session. Open Mic access enables the attendees to communicate directly with the trainer one at a time during a session. However, we understand that all discussions and conversations cannot be streamlined with individual views. Introducing Zoho ShowTime's "Open House". The open house feature creates a
Zoho ShowTime: Certificates of Completion - Award your learners with a sense of achievement
In our increasingly competitive market, professional trainers need to differentiate themselves if they are to survive. One way to do this is to focus on innovation and deliver an ideal learning experience. By developing a renowned certificate program that provides learners with a specialized skill set for a particular industry, both trainees and future prospects will recognize the trainer's leadership in that field. This can help with long-term growth, revenue generation, and even marketing and branding.
Introducing Evaluation and Assessment in Zoho ShowTime
Hello everyone, Once again, we're happy to introduce a new feature in Zoho ShowTime. Our newest addition is "Evaluation and Assessment" so you can see how effective your training truly is. Assessment systems help you effectively evaluate course-related knowledge and skills on a regular basis. As a trainer in ShowTime, you can gauge your trainee's attitude, his/her awareness on a subject, and their reaction to the trainings at the end of every session. You can also conduct tests with MCQs, research
New on Zoho ShowTime - Record your training
Zoho ShowTime is an online training tool that lets you conduct engaging virtual classes and gives you realtime insights and detailed analytics on your sessions. Virtual classes - What works and what doesn't Virtual classes offer a convenient way for learners to harness new skills. However, not all registrants will be able to attend your sessions at the scheduled time. How do you ensure that nobody's left behind? Simple. Record your sessions. Introducing Zoho ShowTime's Recording feature: With Zoho
Help your attendees find their voice with Zoho ShowTime's Open Mic feature.
Make your training more of a conversation by giving your learners the power to contribute to your sessions with the Open Mic feature in Zoho ShowTime. This feature is especially useful for remote learning, where trainers need to stay connected with an audience they can't directly see. When communication is only one-way, there's less engagement. The Open Mic feature now allows your attendees to engage more by voicing their opinions during the session. When your attendees request access, you will be
Video tip 02: Customize your feedback and evaluation forms in Zoho ShowTime
Hello everyone, Here's a new video tip for all our ShowTime users. Today we will learn few quick, effective ways to evaluate your participants and assess your trainings conducted on Showtime, like MCQs (multiple choice questions), text-boxes, and ratings scale. Watch the below video to learn how these assessment systems help you effectively evaluate course-related knowledge and skills of your trainees on a regular basis. Follow this page to learn more such tips and stay updated on all the
Tips and Tricks 08: Smarter ways to manage your training content
With the recent advancements of cloud-based training systems, instructors today can create courses that are more cost-efficient and distribute them to a larger audience. Similarly, offering cloud storage and online content collaboration within an e-learning solution eliminates the need for additional course development tools. In this tips and tricks post, learn how efficient content management helps trainers with added flexibility, fine-tuned controls, and affordability in the online training environment.
ShowTime's Guest Trainer feature is here: invite domain experts to your training
Seeking a fresh perspective to enhance your virtual events? Looking for a multi-disciplinary approach to stimulate critical thinking among your learners? Zoho ShowTime introduces the Guest Trainer feature to help you broaden your course's range and invite
Secure your virtual training with ShowTime's password-protected sessions.
Online training courses take immense effort and preparation to create and can often contain proprietary information and experience. Training programs also reflect the hard-earned expertise of instructors who present complex ideas and concepts in ways that make it accessible for remote learners. In certain cases, it is essential to ensure your session content is only accessible for approved staff and attendees. Internal training for your staff on organizational compliance or a new product launch
How to create a flexible learning culture with on-demand training
The best training systems should always allow trainees to choose the training modality most suited to their educational needs, learning style, and personal schedules. As technology continues to evolve, the need for on-demand training has also grown. We’re used to having information at our fingertips and finding the answers we need within minutes. This immediacy has dramatically changed people's expectations of traditional learning. In contrast to traditional classroom structures, more and more
Introducing Co-trainers in Zoho ShowTime
Zoho ShowTime is excited to announce the release of the much-awaited Co-trainer feature for your training sessions. Co-trainers can assist you, the trainer, in many ways to keep the training lively and productive. Co-trainers help answer questions and manage chat discussions when the session host is busy presenting. They can also contribute their relevant subject expertise by delivering a segment of your training. Adding co-trainers greatly helps increase the attendee engagement level during a
Spotlight 07: How your learners can access On Demand sessions from ShowTime's Viewer App.
Many of the best training systems allow trainees to choose the modality most suited to their educational needs, learning style, and personal schedules. With the growing need for on-demand learning, the use of mobile and tablet software to access these sessions is also quickly becoming the most convenient way to share knowledge between educators and students. Considering these trends, we now introduce our next community spotlight series focusing on how your trainees can connect to an On Demand session
Spotlight 06: How ShowTime's polls help trainers with real-time evaluation
ShowTime’s polls help you gauge your audience's opinions by asking them questions at preferred intervals so they stay engaged during your live online trainings. You can now stop wondering what your learners are thinking and make your session interactive by getting quick replies to your questions through polls. Welcome to another spotlight series post in ShowTime's Community Learning series. In this post, we will focus on the polls feature and how the multiple question types it provides help you
Live Webinar: An Overview of Zoho ShowTime
This is a welcome call to Marketers, Sales professionals, HRs, Trainers, and everyone else who conduct virtual sessions. Join us for a free webinar on Thursday, 5th April 2018 and learn how to deliver interactive online sessions with Zoho ShowTime. Zoho ShowTime offers scheduling, attendee registration, screenshare, engagement analytics, publishing of session content, session recording, and much more. Recording in ShowTime enables audiences to follow up on missed sessions. A report by Nielsen
See how Zoho ShowTime can be the right virtual classroom platform for your school.
In recent months, an increasing number of teachers are exploring online training methods to build a digital campus for their high school or university, deliver online classes for students, and create a more collaborative learning experience for everyone. Focusing on this e-learning shift, let's look at how Zoho ShowTime can help you transition seamlessly from your traditional classroom setup to a virtual learning environment. Manage your school from a single console In ShowTime, you can add
Video tip 6: How to use Zoho ShowTime's Screenshare feature in a virtual training session.
Hello everyone, We are excited to launch our video tip of the month series within our ShowTime's community, aimed to help our trainers and educators with brief and practical tips on delivering more effective and comprehensive training. In this month's video tip, we will show you how to use screenshare in ShowTime and how this feature is ideal for demonstrating software usage, explaining complex workflows, checking bugs, and customer hand-holding. We hope this tip was useful. Feel free to share
Zoho ShowTime is now Multilingual.
Zoho ShowTime has users across the globe. Our success is that of our users, so it's only natural that we would announce the new multilingual functionality of Zoho ShowTime. From the user interface to our communication emails, we have customized ShowTime to speak to you in the language of your choice. Languages supported Zoho ShowTime now supports seven new languages: French German Italian Japanese Chinese Spanish Portuguese To Enable Multi-language support Navigate to accounts.zoho.com Click My
Introducing hybrid training: Automate your content delivery and focus more on learner engagement
Video-based learning is a widely-accepted e-learning trend, and it’s gaining momentum. What makes it trendy now and soon a staple of learning is it’s shorter, crispier and engaging nature, changing the way your audience members learn. These training videos allow you to create a sense of immersion and connect with viewers on a deeper level. With ShowTime's latest update, you can add videos to your remote trainings thereby helping people learn from your videos as you keep them engaged with questions,
Live Webinar: Learn how to make Zoho ShowTime your school's virtual classroom platform
In recent times, an increasing number of teachers are exploring online training methods to deliver online classes for students and create a more collaborative virtual learning experience for everyone. Focusing on this shift to digital learning, Zoho ShowTime is hosting a live webinar to help you transition seamlessly from your traditional classroom setup to a virtual environment and continue offering education. Join us in this webinar to learn more about setting up your digital campus, delivering
Video tip 6: How assessments improve learning in a digital training environment
In any kind of training course, assessments are an integral part of the instruction process and in helping your audience learn more. ShowTime offers customizable test forms to display to your learners once a video ends in on-demand sessions. These assessments, using question formats, such as multiple choice, true or false, short answer, and fill in the blank types, are best suited to guide improvement in student learning. These question formats help trainers administer quizzes to effectively evaluate
Tips and Tricks 07: How ShowTime's unique chat experience enhances real-time discussions.
Online discussion boards and chat applications are often used in traditional courses, hybrid sessions, and virtual classrooms. While traditional courses, and even some hybrid courses, generally have the benefit of in-class discussions, fully online courses often use the discussion board or chat functions as a means of class interaction, to give learners the opportunity to connect with each other and share ideas in an open forum. Zoho ShowTime offers various types of chat functions where all enrolled learners can
Introducing Paid Trainings in Zoho ShowTime.
Online education and training is becoming increasingly popular in today's business world. According to a survey, enrollment in e-learning courses has increased by 263% over the last twelve years. Forbes also reports that an average presenter makes around $7000 a year from their online training sessions while building a strong reputation for their courses among their audience. That is why we've introduced the Paid Trainings feature in Zoho ShowTime. You can now realize the value of your training potential
Spotlight Series 05: Spotlight on ShowTime's Organization Dashboard
Analytics can play a vital role in the online education industry by giving organizations and institutes the data they need to make informed decisions. Analyzing training performance and operational data helps identify specific patterns and trends so you can make any necessary adjustments to the path and goals of your training organization. In this spotlight post, we will be highlighting ShowTime's Organization Dashboard where we give detailed analytics on the overall performance of your training
Zoho ShowTime: Host training courses under your own domain and build brand recognition with your global audience.
As a trainer, owning your own unique website and domain name is key to maintaining a strong, unified brand. Using your website to host your online courses creates a digital home base where you can communicate with your virtual classroom and remote learners. Having your own domain name also increases your brand's positioning and reach through search results on top search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Prospective customers will more readily pay for courses from an organization with a professional,
Increase your learner's content retention with handouts in ShowTime
In the field of teaching and training, it's important to make sure your learners are adequately equipped for their tasks, such as having the necessary prior knowledge, and motivation to follow the lesson. Smart use of supplementary handouts can compensate for lack of preparedness without spoon-feeding. Useful handouts often provide an outline of the lecture to help learners follow it more easily and allow them to concentrate on listening and processing the information. These offline materials can offer
Video tip 05: Host training courses under your own personalized domain and white-label your email communications.
Hello everyone, As a trainer, having your own domain name increases your brand's positioning and reach through search results on top search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Prospective customers will more readily pay for courses from an organization with a professional, established online presence. A custom domain establishes you as a leader in your area of subject expertise, helping you promote your courses and build brand recognition with your global audience. In today's video tip, we at
Tips and Tricks 06: Enrich your on-demand sessions with a wide variety of training content
Self-paced learning, with access to easily-digestible and effective content any time, anywhere, is key to empowering your learners. So, when you have your training session ready to go, and you’re eager to get out there and start sharing your expertise, the next question is: how? What can I use to deliver all that information? Zoho ShowTime supports a variety of content types, such as PDFs, videos, and more,., so you can choose the medium that best suits the learning needs of your students. From lecture-based
Video tip 04: Do you want to set up repeated training sessions at regular intervals? Learn how.
Hello everyone, Sometimes it is difficult to organize and manage your everyday work and training sessions. Scheduling recurring or repeated sessions can be even more time-consuming as you need to create and maintain the training content, schedule multiple time slots for the training, manage registrants across each session, and more. Zoho ShowTime offers a smarter option for these cases that only takes a few clicks. Play the video below to learn how to use the same presentation content and set
Tips & Tricks 05: Boost the credibility of your training organization by branding your email communication.
Learners tend to look for indicators of legitimacy before enrolling in a training organization. Whether they intend to hire them to teach a course, to care for their learning needs, provide a teaching service, or to give them advice, they need to see that the trainer is trustworthy. In an effort to provide opportunities for training organizations to put their best foot forward, we're working on adding some great new features to ShowTime. The ShowTime team is currently working on helping you customize
3 exciting new updates from ShowTime for a more seamless training experience
Hi everyone, The ShowTime team is dedicated to delivering excellent service and support to the users of our online training software. We gather feedback from our customers and work hard to implement what we hear. Based on those requests, we've now added a few exciting features to the app to bring in exceptional professionalism and the ease of remote training together. Below are the three new updates made in ShowTime: Availability of slides in session recordings: Now all your slides and
Spotlight 04: ShowTime's Presenter app - Smarter trainings right from your smartphone
Why take your laptop to the podium when you can deliver your trainings right from your mobile device? Shifting the spotlight on ShowTime's Presenter app for mobile, we'll be highlighting various interesting and useful features of the app that can make your training experience much more exciting! ShowTime's Presenter app has been specifically designed to create a seamless training experience for a live audience seated inside an auditorium or a classroom. The online training app enables you to deliver
Tired of rescheduling trainings? Set up recurring sessions in ShowTime.
Hello everyone, As ShowTime aims to develop into a robust and holistic e-learning platform, here's another interesting feature that can help you, as trainers, plan and conduct sequential training sessions with ease. As a presenter, conducting presentations, workshops, or online courses will consume a lot of time and effort, with planning, structuring, creating and scheduling the presentation at your preferred data and time. It can make your job even harder if you need to schedule some training
Spotlight 03: Connect and deliver more effective trainings with ShowTimes' Viewer app
With the growing need for virtual classroom learning, the use of mobile and tablet software is quickly becoming the most convenient way to share knowledge between educators and students. According to a 2018 study, nearly 67% of digital learners now use mobile devices to complete their online coursework. Additionally, smartphone learners complete course material 45% faster than those using a computer. Considering these facts, we now introduce our next community spotlight series that will focus on Zoho
Live webinar: Get a first look at ShowTime's on-demand training
Hi all! With ShowTime's next update imminent, you'll soon be able to create self-paced versions of your training, by either picking a recorded session from your ShowTime library or simply uploading a course video saved to your computer. These On-demand training sessions will be available at any time, and will provide better support for people who can't attend live sessions. Not just that, you can also track the performance of these prerecorded sessions with advanced analytics in ShowTime, as well
Ask the experts 02: A 12-hour live Q&A session to help you understand Zoho ShowTime better!
Hi all, We are excited to host the second edition of ShowTime's "Ask the experts" for you on Thursday, 6th June 2019 from 6.30 am to 6.30pm GMT. The ''Ask the Experts" is a live brainstorming session, which helps you learn in detail about using various exciting features of Zoho Showtime, such as: Conducting audience surveys and polls, Managing training leads with the CRM integration, Utilizing co-trainers' knowledge and skills to convert all your well organized training sessions into a revenue.
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