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Infinity DLL is the most advanced language learning software system that allows teacher to carry out comprehensive multimedia teaching and voice practice within a computer room. Infinity DLL is, same as traditional hardware language lab, able to broadcast the teacher screen of whatever format to all students’ monitor at the same pace. The digital recorder at the student user interface (SUI) and the versatile pairing and grouping mode allows language practice through discussion.

 

Time delay is an important issue for sound transmission within a digital language lab. Infinity DLL has the innovation technologies to transmit digitized sound and video, together with data within the network cable of 100Mbps Ethernet, no extra cable. Multiple sound or voice sources can be listened at student side by Infinity DLL’s Sound Transmission Technology (STT) developed from the kernel mode, with high sampling rate to improve sound quality and packet buffer to smooth sound feeling. No matter how many students in a group and the number of groups within a class, Infinity DLL has solved the instant digitized voice transmission with time delay of minimum 10ms, the students will not find any significant delay during conversation.

 
 

 

Advanced Teaching Activities
Student User Interface (SUI)

Infinity DLL provides a student user interface (SUI) at all students’ screens, it helps the students to be more concentrated during the class and indicates every class activity to be carried out. Every class activity will be indicated at the SUI, students will have patience to wait as they are aware of the learning activities when teacher prepare the materials.

One Click Broadcasting

Infinity DLL’s Instant-screen Transfer Technology (ITT) is able to broadcast the teacher screen of whatever format to all students’ monitor at the same pace, supporting real-time broadcasting of the Flash, PowerPoint, DVD and all other videos from teacher to students PCs; with the high quality of synchronized video at 30 fps and same resolution as teacher PC. 

Advanced Seating Plan

Infinity DLL is able to mirror the seating arrangement, with easy expansion and modification capabilities. Indication of individual student’s help calling for teacher’s assistance is also provided with automatic priority, thus the first calling student will have be indicated as “1” and special orange color. Teacher will find it so clear to follow to help individual student one by one.

Stop Students’ Abnormal Activities

Teacher can de-activate the keyboard and mouse of an individual student workstation, and/or de-activate a group of students or students or the entire class. Those special keys, for example Ctrl+Alt+Del and other hot keys can be locked up. Even students turn off the computers and re-start, all the lock up functions are still active and the workstations are still under the control by the teacher.

Grouping the Class into Sessions

The whole class can be divided into sessions, each session can have different learning activities. Under the session or whole class, students can also be divided into groups, each group will carry out same class activity

 
Monitoring Students’ Screen

The teacher can scan and monitor the screen image of individual or selected group of student workstations in real time. The name of monitored student’s workstation will be appeared at the master console for teacher to identify easily.

Helping Student at All Time

Infinity DLL provides the tools to ensure that teacher can converse with individual student, or a group of students at any time via the headsets to provide necessary guidance or help.

        
        
Communication

The teacher can talk to the entire class, or to a group of students or individual student. The teacher can also listen to and converse with a selected student and participate in a student's activity.

 
 
Written Assistance

The teacher can send messages to assist students with their work and the students can reply. The teacher can also initiate a text chat session with single or multiple students.

Highlighting e-Pen

Teacher can highlight or underline the key words at the master screen with various color of the e-Pen during broadcasting the master screen to students’ monitor.

Monitor Application at Student computer

Teacher can check the application running at the student computers. In case of abnormal uses, teacher can prohibit the students from using such application.

Remote Access

The teacher can collaborate with selected students by accessing their computers to help with a task on the student screen and at the same time converse with the student.

Demo Screen Transfer with Audio

The teacher can share the contents of the selected student’s screen to the entire class with the student’s voice.

Opening Applications and Files for Students

The teacher can launch applications on one or several student computers, or start them on several student computers simultaneously.

Wake-on-LAN

Teacher can turn on or off all the students’ computers at the same time.

Blocking to access Internet

Without teacher’s permission, students are not able to access Internet with IE or other browsers.

AV Equipment Control from Teacher Software

For those AV equipment, such as CD and DVD players or projector, a control interface at master control will conveniently allows the teacher to control external program sources.

Focused Web Browsing

Teacher can send the designated web address to all students to keep students focused on teacher's choice of web based material. The teacher can browse the web in order to present the material while students follow this activity

Motivating Language Learning
Grouping and Pairing for Discussion

Infinity DLL facilitates the student pairing and grouping, the pairing and grouping pattern shall be set by the teacher or be fixed in a programmed way. The identity of the student’s partners is shown at the student’s user interface (SUI). The grouping pattern can be saved for next lesson.

Listening Comprehension

The virtual digital recorder located at the SUI is equipped with Audio-Active Comparative (AAC). The teacher can remote launch the student digital virtual recorders, and transfer the prepared programme to the student digital virtual recorder’s master track.

Telephone Pairing

To motivate students’ conversation with other student, Infinity DLL provides Telephone Pairing, thus student is able to select the other partner by himself.

Digital Recorder

Each students’ digital recorder is provided with the programme track waveform indication and volume control, Students can listen to their recorded voices and compare them to sample material for intensive practice in intonation, inflexion and accent reduction. Students can play, stop, rewind, fast forward and pause a file and record their voices.

Voice Waveform

A waveform can be viewed for both the master and student tracks. This visual representation of the voice track allows students to compare their recorded output to the original or model track for detailed speech analysis.

Book Marks

Students can set and remove bookmarks that can be used to locate places in the file for review and additional practice. Ten bookmarks on the playback of the digital recorder can facilitate students to review examples of the target language.

 
Recap Function of Digital Recorder

The Recap function is designed to quickly repeat the previous sentence. Students can review examples of authentic or native speakers in the target language.

Variable Speed Playback

Students can adjust the playback speed of learning material if they are having difficulty following at a set level.

Translation and Interpretation Practice

Teacher can set up the Translation mode of Infinity DLL to start up the practice of instant translation, session interpretation and instant interpretation training for students. The students’ voice can be recorded down and returned to teacher automatically.

 
Reading Practice

Reading aloud is a useful way of practicing intonation, rhythm and pronunciation, and is ideal for students’ individual practice. Students read a text which is recorded on the student track, and then practice to improve their proficiency.

Testing Learning Progress
 
Multiple Choice Exam

The Exam mode allows teacher to provide short test or small examination. Teachers will find it so simple to prepare the examination paper by scanning or uploading the questions with multiple choices. The teachers do not need to prepare the question one by one and put into a paper. The questions can be of any format, written text, figures or photos, voice, video, etc.

Oral Examination

Students need to reply orally to test their speaking ability. The teachers can use a multimedia file including sound or video, or use their live voice through the microphone as a question, students listen and provide their answer by speaking. Both teacher and individual student’s voice are recorded down, which can be returned to teacher. Teacher can give the marking after having listened the student’s voice.

Student Self Learning with Limited Freedom
Channel-on-Demand

In order to manage the students to focus working on the same materials, teacher can open the Channel On Demand function, the specified content of video, audio and text are selected and sent to the SUI of students’ workstations. Students are forced to study these materials by themselves, they cannot go out of the SUI and watch other materials.

Free Access Multimedia Materials

Teacher can provide limited freedom for students to access certain folder at the teacher workstation or content server. With the SUI, students cannot go around of the school network to access those materials not designated by the teacher.

 
 

 
 
Specifications for Infinity series products:
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 or XP
- P4, 2.4 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM for teacher PC
- Celeron 2.0 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAM for student PC
- AC97 sound card (*)
- 10 / 100 MB Network Adapter
- 100 Mbps (with IGMP) Network Switch
 
Citi-DIC Software Maintenance:

Citi-DIC Software Maintenance allows Infinity software users to receive updates that are available during the coverage period without paying an update charge. Software Maintenance for Infinity series products is available for 1 and 3 years.

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Q & A

- Problems of Screen transfer and Receive

- Sometime teacher’s PC cannot broadcast VGA screen to students or teacher cannot receive student’s VGA screen, there have two phases of the problem. The first phase is make sure that the connected switch must enabled to support IGMP function; The second phase is to clarify the “DLL Screen Transfer” is running on both teacher and student’s PC.

  1. Why “Teaching” function cannot broadcast VGA screen of teacher’s computer to all students? Both teacher and student’s computer have “DLL Screen Transfer Service” is running as local service, make sure that the service is running
     

  2. Why “Monitor Screen” & “Remote Control” functions cannot receive student’s screen on teacher’s VGA screen? Make sure that the “DLL Screen Transfer Service” is installed and running as local service.

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- Problem of Infinity DLL Server installation

  1. Why installed Infinity DLL 3.0 Server on Windows 2003 server have some unknown errors? The first phase, the IIS (Internet Information Service) and ASP.Net must be installed before install Infinity DLL Server. When completed the installation, please clarify “Active Server Pages”, “ASP.Net v*.*.****”, and “Server Side Includes” are “Allowed”.

Figure 7: IIS Manager Page

- Common Problems

  1. When completed the installation and configuration, there have only 5 students on the Infinity DLL console?
    In a licensed version, the dongle must be plug-in to the teacher’s PC (Parallel port or USB), and installed the dongle driver which under the “add-on” folder in the installation CD. However, in a demo version of Infinity DLL, it does not exceed a maximum of 5 clients.
     

  2. When executing the “Teaching” function, the student’s screen cannot be restored if the network connection failed?
    In this situation, you can reconnect the network connection of the student’s PC or restart the PC to solve this problem.
     

  3. When executing the “Teaching” function, the movement of teacher’s mouse is not smooth?
    In this situation, open “Display Properties”, then click “Setting”, then click “Advanced” , then click “Trouble shooting” tab, and then change the hardware acceleration to “None”.
     

  4.  When broadcasting the video on teacher VGA screen, the video screen is not smooth?
    In this situation, to clarify the teacher PC meets the basic requirement. OR enable the “Hyper-threading” feature on the teacher PC will be better.
     

  5.  Why some Infinity clients can connect to the Infinity DLL Server but some don’t in self study mode?
    If clients installed Infinity DLL server on Windows XP Pro, our Infinity DLL Server can be supported 10 current users to connect to the Infinity DLL server, it’s the OS limitation.
     

  6. When broadcasting the video from Infinity DLL server to students, there has no video and sound on the student’s PC?
    To clarify the sound card must be installed in Infinity DLL server, and the “windows audio” services is running.
     

  7. Why student icons haven’t showed in Infinity DLL Console?
    In this situation, there have some suggestion for
    - To clarify the teacher PC and student PCs are in the same network subnet. Use “IPCONFIG” command to check the IP address and network subnet.
    - Use “PING Teacher PC’s name” command to test the connection between teacher PC and student PC, make sure that the name resolution is working.
    - Open Infinity DLL Configuration on student PC. In the teacher tab, re-type the teacher PC’s name in the Directory Server field, then click OK to restart the agent.

  1. Why “Wake on LAN” function can’t wakeup student PCs?
    - To clarify the student PC “Remote wakeup” function have been enable on the BIOS.
    - Open network connection in Control Panel, and then open the network card properties page. In general tab, click “Setting” then “Advanced”. In the Advanced page, select “Wake Up Capabilities”. There have 3 options for the wake-on-LAN function, Normally We will select the “Magic Frame”. However if it doesn’t work properly, we can select the other two options for testing.
     

  2. Why abnormal sound is heard, when using Infinity DLL audio function?
    - You should download the latest sound card driver and install it from the support homepage of your model of PC.

- Recommendations of Sound Card Setting in Infinity DLL

- Open the volume control properties page.
- In the playback mode, change the “Volume control”, “wave” and “Line in” to medium level.

- In the record mode, change the “Microphone” to medium level. And then click “Advanced”, then unselect the “MIC Boost” check box.

 

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