WiZiQ is an online learning platform. The site is designed to help students and teachers find each other, and to provide an online virtual classroom learning environment.

The site was started by Harman Singh who is also the CEO of authorGEN a Raleigh based company (with a development arm in Chandigarh, India) whose flagship product is authorSTREAM

Authorstream

authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform from authorGEN Technologies, a company based in Raleigh, North Carolina , USA, with a development arm in Chandigarh, India....

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WiZiQ's Alexa traffic rank for India places it among the top 1,000 highest traffic sites , and its global Alexa traffic rank exceeds many of its competitors (Edufire

Edufire

eduFire is a distance education platform and social network service for live tutoring through text and video chat.-Company:eduFire is a California-based Web 2.0 startup company focused on language exchange and training. It was originally promoted as a language learning engine...

, Myngle

Myngle

-Company:Myngle is a live online language learning website, based in Amsterdam in The Netherlands, allowing students and teachers to get one-on-one real time online lessons from wherever they are. This has resulted in students and teachers participating in over 150 countries.Myngle is free for...

, Sclipo

Sclipo

Sclipo is a Learning Management System, providing a fully hosted Online Campus solution with web applications that support face-to-face and distance education...

, GuruFi) , , .

WiZiQ has also been featured on Mashable

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 , ZDNet

ZDNet

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 , NYTimes , Silicon India , Sramana Mitra's blog (who is a columnist for Forbes ), and other blogs.

Teachers provide lessons in standardized tests such as AIEEE, CAT

Common Admission Test

The Common Admission Test is a Computer Based Test in Quantitative Ability, Data Interpretation, Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning. The Indian Institutes of Management use the test as an important component in selecting students for the business administration programs. The test is conducted...

, SAT

SAT

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, AP

Advanced Placement Program

The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...

, GRE

Graduate Record Examination

The Graduate Record Examinations is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in the United States, in other English-speaking countries and for English-taught graduate and business programs world-wide...

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The WiZiQ virtual classroom runs using a Web browser and Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

. On the site one can find online tests, tutorials, and recorded classes . WiZiQ also serves as a social networking site to bring together educators and students from around the world. There is no vetting of the teachers on the site, as anybody can become a teacher and anybody can be a student. Teachers upload their profiles advertising what they can teach, tutorials, their experience and their credentials and students can run searches, find recorded classes to watch, tutorials to take, or teachers to work with.

The website indicates that a dial-up modem will be functional but that broadband is recommended for a better experience .

Although the CrunchBase profile for WiZiQ does not include a list of competitors; competitors to edufire are in a similar business as WiZiQ.

Features

WizIQ has similar features to other e-learning

E-learning

E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching. The information and communication systems, whether networked learning or not, serve as specific media to implement the learning process...

, web conferencing

Web conferencing

Web conferencing refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote locations. Most vendors also provide either a recorded copy of an event, or a means for a subscriber to record an event. The service allows information to be shared simultaneously, across geographically...

 and other online learning platform providers.

• Audio/video
• Whiteboard
• Support for PowerPoint
• Screensharing
• Support for other file types including sound, video, Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
  
   documents, Flash
  Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
  
  , PDF, etc.