MDC consists of a staff control program and a student program. These are networked together for "live" classroom sessions.
The main features are:
- Excellent networked speech for simulating telephone calls.
- Staff can speak to one or many students, or simply monitor them.
- Almost any audio or video file type may be used, including videos downloaded from YouTube. Video may be resized, including full-screen.
- Excellent recording quality and playback.
- Audio or video may be cut to produce a shorter clip of the same quality.
- New picture viewer is very high quality, and easily resized.
- Unicode word processor can handle any language.
- File transfer to and from student computers.
- Staff may view and interact with student displays.
- Exercise "packages" hold all materials for work.
- Central archive and User system may be used for full student self-study.
- Staff may create groups for their specialist subject and allocate students to them. Work can be placed in them for self-study.
- Staff may remote-control student media players.
- Very flexible permissions system allows staff to permit or exclude various student activities.
- "Slow mode" slows down audio or video playback with no change of sound pitch, if permitted. (Many tutors turn this off for more advanced students).
- Forum and email mode can develop skills for communicating with social media in a second language.
- Plenary mode for complete group comment.