Sclipo launches Educational Events

Events play a mayor role in education as they foster knowledge transfer and networking. Events such as seminars, conferences and workshops are hence important complements to courses and individual learning activities. This is why Sclipo built an application to help our members organize face-2-face educational events.

Now, there are a lot of event apps out there. And we did not just want to give you yet-another-event-app. Our goal was to respond to the specific needs of educators – needs which in our view are not solved by generic event apps:
* Integration with courses: events are often part of an educational program consisting of various courses, which need to be associated with an event
* Sharing of educational content: presentations, audio, video, images – generated before and during an event – need to be easily accessible and shareable for participants before, during and especially after the event
* Remote participation: as travel and time budgets get tighter, the possibility to take part remotely is a strongly growing demand

Here is how we responded to these needs. With Sclipo Events you can:
* Organize off-line educational events such as conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures, etc.
* Assign courses related to the event. For example, if you want to organize a workshop as part of a course, you can easily assign that course to the workshop event.
* Share educational content related to the event: documents, presentations, videos, audio files and images
* Live stream the event, and store and share the recordings
* Discuss the event on its wall
* Invite and administer participants
* Charge participants for attendance
* Restrict events to a selected audience or make it open for everyone

We also believe that the networking potential will be outstanding – as all members, activities and content on Sclipo are about education.

Here an example Event:

Sclipo Events was built by Alex Blessing, with the invaluable support of Victor Bautista and Chris Grant. Edwin Toone did a great job in unearthing those nasty bugs that somehow always manage to sneak in. Thanks guys!

We hope you find Sclipo Events useful and are looking forward to your feedback.