Dim Dim Follow up

I forgot to post out initial review of Dim Dim after we got it running so I will do so now.
We got Dim Dim functioning relatively easily on our test server.

We then set up a session on a work station and had another workstation join as a student.

The software installed automagically just like Centra and our session began.

The first thing that you notice is that a lot of the buttons are grayed out. These are features that are not yet installed. At this stage the white board is grayed out, and I have to say it is a fairly important feature for what we require. Other grayed out boxes included Word files and Excel files.

PowerPoint was available so we went a head and inserted one to see how it worked. This feature worked perfectly.

A trial of the video and voice capabilities was also promising, the sound was clear and the video impressive. There did tend to be a slight delay with the video however. (Might have been the specs of our test server that caused this.)

Unfortunately at this stage I would have to say it is an EARLY beta. The lack of interactivity for students makes the teacher a talking head with no way for the student to interact unless they use the chat feature (text). Without the whiteboard you also loose a lot of flexibility.

An update to the software is due this quarter, so I have added myself to their blog and we have left the software on our server. If the new version is an improvement then I will blog again of any improvements.