Facilitating a meeting or education session

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer hardware processor, location data of a location associated with a meeting, wherein the meeting has a leader;

setting, by the computer hardware processor and based at least in part on the location data, a geo-fence;

receiving, by the computer hardware processor, check-in information from a member device associated with a member in an audience;

determining, by the computer hardware processor, if the member device includes a location sensor;

responsive to determining, by the computer hardware processor, that the member device includes a location sensor, locating the member device using location sensor information to determine if the member device is within the geo-fence

responsive to determining, by the computer hardware processor, that the member device does not include a location sensor, locating the member device by identifying a locatable device having a known location and that is connected to or nearby the member device to determine if the member device is within the geo-fence;

collecting, by the computer hardware processor, feedback from a plurality of member devices, each member device associated with a a respective member of the audience; and

sending, by the computer hardware processor, the feedback to a leader device associated with the leader.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining if the member device is within the geo-fence further comprises:

calculating a distance of the member device from the location associated with the meeting; and

determining if the distance is less than a radius of the geo-fence.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving check-in information comprises:

generating a unique code for the leader;

receiving a code from a member device associated with a member in the audience; and

verifying if the code received from the member device matches the unique code.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein determining if the member device is within the geo-fence is performed during or after at least one of (i) verifying if the code matches the unique code and (ii) collecting feedback.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying a locatable device utilizes at least one of: Wifi router coordinates, coordinates of a main router associated with the member device, coordinates of a mobile device wirelessly connected to a WiFi router to which the member device is connected, cellular triangulation, a Wifi router polling of nearby devices, an internet service provider, a radio transponder device, and near field communication.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying a locatable device comprises:

(i) if a Wifi router is available, using the Wifi router to determine the location of the member device, the Wifi router being associated with the member device;

(ii) if the Wifi router is not available, using a main router to determine the location of the member device, the main router being associated with the member device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the feedback is a response to an assessment, the assessment generated by the leader.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the assessment is a question requiring the member to answer during the meeting.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising processing the feedback to send data, points or credits to the member device or the leader device.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location sensor is a global positioning system (GPS) sensor.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the location associated with the meeting is based on at least one of: a location of the leader device, a known location of a facility in which the meeting is held, and a locatable device disposed within the facility.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the member device is a mobile device selected from the group consisting of a smartphone, tablet, laptop and smartwatch.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the meeting is an academic class, the leader is a teacher, and the member of the audience is a student of the class.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions executable by a computer processor, the instructions causing the computer processor to:

receive location data of a location associated with a meeting, the meeting having a leader;

receive check-in information from a member device associated with a member in an audience;

set a geo-fence based on the location associated with the meeting;

determine if the member device includes a location sensor;

responsive to determining that the member device includes a location sensor, determine if the member device is within the geo-fence using the location sensor to locate the member's device;

responsive to determining that the member device does not include a location sensor, determine if the member device is within the ego-fence by identifying a locatable device that has a known location and that is connected to or nearby the member, device;

collect feedback from a plurality of member devices, each member device associated with a a respective member of the audience; and

send the feedback to a leader device associated with the leader.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein determining if the member device is within the geo-fence further comprises:

calculating a distance of the member device from the location associated with the meeting; and

determining if the distance is less than a radius of the geo-fence.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein identifying a locatable device utilizes at least one of: Wifi router coordinates, coordinates of a main router associated with the member device, coordinates of a mobile device wirelessly connected to a WiFi router to which the member device is connected, cellular triangulation, a Wifi router polling of nearby devices, an internet service provider, a radio transponder device, or near field communication.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein identifying a locatable device comprises:

(i) if a Wifi router is available, using the Wifi router to determine the location of the member device, the Wifi router being associated with the member device;

(ii) if the Wifi router is not available, using a main router to determine the location of the member device, the main router being associated with the member device.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the feedback is a response to an assessment generated by the leader.