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Netmeeting

Netmeeting allows you to contact the professor remotely to get help:

• difficulties with homework problems;
• discussion of the lectures;
• discussion of what was wrong in your homeworks or exams;
• etcetera.

Netmeeting is video conferencing software that allows two-way voice and video communication. You can see who you are talking to. It also has a whiteboard for drawing formulae and pictures on. That makes it more attractive than simply calling the professor on the phone.

Netmeeting is currently limited to two users with live audio. For help sessions open to the entire class, only the chat program and the whiteboard will be used.

The software can be obtained from Microsoft. At the time of this writing the software was available for Windows 95/98 and NT. You need version 3 or higher. It ran fine on a Pentium 133 portable with 32 Mb RAM over a phone line but was very buggy on a Pentium 60 with 16 Mb on a LAN.

Netmeeting is not available for Mac. CuSeeMe Pro should be, as far as I know, and should be able to connect with Netmeeting. Unfortunately, we do not have experience with CU-SeeMe for the MAC.

This web page simply describes the software. It does not endorse the software beyond the fact that it seemed useful to us.

You alone assume total responsibility for any adverse effects of this software. You alone are responsible for making sure that no copyrights, licenses, contractual obligations, patents, etcetera are violated. In particular you must carefully read all licenses and ensure that you comply with their terms.

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