Elluminate Learning Suite Delivers Robust, Engaging Tools for 21st Century Teaching and Learning

Enhanced Usability and Accessibility, Extended International Support, and
Additional LMS Integrations Enable Best-in-Class Learning Experience and
Facilitate System-Wide Adoption
PLEASANTON, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Because 21st century students learn differently, today`s educators need 21st
century tools to reach them. In response to this need, Elluminate, Inc.
announced today the newest additions to its family of web, video, and audio
social learning solutions designed for education. Built on the company`s No User
Left Behind technology, the Elluminate Learning Suite now includes Elluminate
Live! V9.5, Elluminate Plan! V2, and enhancements to Elluminate Bridges for
learning management system integrations.

With the Elluminate Learning Suite, administrators can meet student demands,
leverage limited instructor resources, provide sustainable professional
development, create a culture of collaboration, and promote technology adoption
system-wide, while dramatically reducing travel and infrastructure costs. At the
same time, educators can more easily make the transition from the physical to
virtual classroom and facilitate a best-in-class learning experience with
session planning, live interaction, and on-demand recordings.

About Elluminate Live! V9.5

Enhancements include:

* Improved audio fidelity and significantly reduced audio time lag for
high-bandwidth users, along with higher video frame rates with reduced video
bandwidth requirements, for easier, more natural communication and smoother
video motion with near-lip-sync audio.
* Enhanced, easy-to-use teaching tools, including refreshed user interface,
redesigned whiteboard text editor, drag-and-drop graphical screen explorer,
application sharing configuration preferences, recording reminder, and
streamlined recording playback, that increase moderator control, facilitate
presenting, enhance participant experience, and simplify use of recordings.
* More robust breakout functionality with ability to drag and drop participants
to and from rooms for easy distribution. Instructors can quickly copy content to
selected or all rooms and easily move student-created content back to the main
room for class discussion. Moderator can allow participants to move from room to
room on their own for round-robin exercises or multiple tutoring sessions.
* Expanded accessibility for the visually impaired with audio notifications of
recording start and stop, improved navigation for screen reader users, and
option to include speaker notes in whiteboard slides for screen reader
narration.
* Added support for users worldwide with Ubuntu Linux client, streamlined
deployment of multiple languages without disruption to localized users, and
ability to display local telephone number formats outside of North America for
audio conferencing integration.
* Client user interface enhancements, including modernized graphical icons and
more intuitive placement of polling response options.

About Elluminate Plan! V2

Designed for organizing, scripting, and packaging content and activities before
the live session, Elluminate Plan! now includes:

* Significantly expanded command set to build in even more interactivity
* Ability to set session parameters for easy automatic setup before class begins

* Drag-and-drop construction and editing that facilitates plan development
* Plan validation tool that enables self-service troubleshooting and cuts
development time

About Elluminate Bridges

Elluminate Bridges now include support for:

* ANGEL Learning Management Suite 7.3 and 7.4
* Blackboard Learning System - Enterprise 7 or higher, including Release 9
* Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise 6 or higher
* Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise 4 or higher

In addition, Elluminate and Desire2Learn have partnered to develop an
integration to the Desire2Learn Learning Environment, which will be available
later in 2009.

Quotes for Attribution

"The biggest joy in my job is using Elluminate. It connects me with my students,
so I`m not just a teacher out there in cyberspace. Plus, it puts more learning
responsibility on the student rather than being instructor-directed. Students
can tap into their experience and share with others," said Carmell Van Patten,
Physical/Earth Science Instructor, iSucceed Virtual High School. "Of all the
tools in Elluminate, I think breakout rooms are the most powerful. That`s where
the kids really get involved with their learning. I`m very excited about the
enhancements. They will save me a ton of preparation time, and the ability for
students to move themselves from room to room will be useful for virtual
mini-labs."

"I absolutely adore Elluminate. It`s a way for me to get to know my students and
for them to get to know one another. So, I`m excited about the improved audio
because it will be even more like a conversation," said Shelli Strate, National
Subject Area Specialist, English Department, Insight School of Washington. "The
enhancements are huge! They are what I would have asked for and represent great
strides for me. Elluminate is a wonderful, integral part of our teaching, and
it`s clear that students who come to Elluminate sessions are almost always more
successful."

"At Elluminate, we listen to our customers," said Maurice Heiblum, President of
Elluminate, Inc. "For this release, we asked customers how we could make our key
learning features more useful and easier to use. As a result, the majority of
the new enhancements to the Elluminate Learning Suite are a direct result of
customer feedback and represent an extension of the best-in-class experience and
No User Left Behind philosophy customers have come to expect from Elluminate
solutions."

Product Availability

Elluminate Live! V9.5, Elluminate Plan! V2, and the enhanced Elluminate Bridge
for ANGEL Learning will be generally available in July. The enhanced Elluminate
Bridges for Blackboard are available now, while the new Elluminate Bridge for
Desire2Learn will be available later this year.

About Elluminate, Inc.

Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class web, video, and audio solutions
for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional
outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and
completion rates, and higher ROI. Elluminate has served more than 600 million
web-collaboration minutes to over 3 million teachers and students located in 185
different countries. The winner of several prestigious awards, the company is
also one of Deloitte's 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies and is positioned
in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing,
2008.

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Pleasanton, California, Elluminate
is the trusted choice of prominent academic institutions and corporations,
including ADP, Apple Computer, California State University, Florida Virtual
School, Georgetown University, K12 Inc., London Knowledge Lab, Los Angeles
Unified School District, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Novell, Queen's
University, Royal Veterinary College, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and many more.
For more information, visit http://www.elluminate.com.

Elluminate Live! is a registered trademark of Elluminate, Inc., Calgary,
Alberta, Canada.

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Jennifer Avrhami, 480-941-8497
pr@elluminate.com

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