A feature that allows students to schedule and conduct virtual meetings with scholars, such as video conferencing, to facilitate more direct and personal interactions.
A virtual meeting feature in a platform linking students to scholars would allow students to schedule and conduct virtual meetings with scholars, such as video conferencing, to facilitate more direct and personal interactions. This could include the following functionalities:
- Scheduling: A feature that allows students to schedule virtual meetings with scholars at a mutually convenient time. This could be integrated with the scholars’ calendar and availability, and also allow students to schedule recurring meetings.
- Video conferencing: A feature that allows students and scholars to conduct video conferences, which could include features such as screen sharing, recording, and annotations.
- Chat: A feature that allows students and scholars to communicate in real-time during the video conference, or also through the platform using instant messaging or other chat tools.
- Recording: A feature that allows students and scholars to record their virtual meetings for later reference or to share with others.
- Access control: A feature that allows students and scholars to control who has access to the virtual meeting, and set different levels of access for different users.
- Integration with other tools: A feature that allows virtual meetings to be integrated with other tools such as document sharing or data analysis, to facilitate collaboration during the meeting.
- Virtual whiteboard: A feature that allows students and scholars to collaborate on a shared whiteboard where they can draw, write and make annotations during the meeting.