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Adobe Connect Training
How to Conduct a Meeting
By: Kari Busard

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Learning Goals
① Access Adobe Connect
② Learn Adobe Connect functions and attributes
③ Learn Video and Audio capabilities
④ Learn Best Practices for Virtual Classrooms

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Adobe Connect Overview
① What is Adobe Connect?
② How can I use Adobe Connect?
③ What are the benefits of Adobe Connect over other virtual
software?

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What is Adobe Connect?
 A web conferencing tool for
online meetings, eLearning,
and webinars
 Uses Flash-enabled web
browser and an Internet
connection to participate in
synchronous online sessions.
 Many instant features to make
your web conferencing
experience easy and efficient

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How Can I Use Adobe Connect?
 Meetings
 Conduct multi-participant meetings with video and audio features
 Online Classrooms
 Teach students from all over the world using file sharing
 E-learning
 Hold seminars for a wide audience with file sharing

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How Does it Compare?

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Create an Adobe
Connect Meeting
① Set-Up
② Meeting Roles
③ Meeting Functions and Attributes
④ Video and Audio Capabilities

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Setting Up a Meeting
 All online
 Sign in with username and
password

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Setting Up a Meeting
 Create a new meeting
 Specify Date and Time
 Describe your meeting
 Set user access
 Share the URL with your
participants
 Now just wait for
them to join!
 EASY AS PIE!

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Meeting Roles
 Three Roles
 Host
 Presenter
 Participant Relationships of Roles:
Host = Principal
Presenter = Teacher
Participant = Student

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Meeting Roles - Host
 Hosts – Managers of the Adobe Connect Session
 Has FULL control
 Set-up meeting and invite participants
 Control the meeting layout
 Determine who is a presenter and participant
 Eject, demote, or promote users
Host = Principal

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Meeting Roles - Presenter
 Presenters – Those who are conducting the meeting or
presentation
 Has MODERATE access
 Full presentation control
Presenter = Teacher

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Meeting Roles - Participant
 Participant– Those who are conducting the meeting or
presentation
 Has LIMITED access
 Can listen, view, and chat
 Can interact with participant initiated questions and polls
Participant = Student

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Pods – What You Can Do
 Present information
 File sharing (ex: Word
Document, PowerPoint
 Share Desktop
 Direct Participants to
Websites
 Interact with Participants
 Create a Poll
 Have a Q & A
 Chat

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Share Pod
 What you can share
 Documents
 Word, PowerPoint,
Excel, Etc
 Choose from files on
your computer
 Whiteboard
 Write, Draw, type,
share ideas in real-
time
 Computer Screen
 Share your desktop

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Attendee List
 View who is in the room
 Change various
privileges for each
attendee
 Change access rights
 Change Raise Hand
Status

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Chat
 Chat with participants
while conducting the
training
 Answer questions
 Clarify confusion
 You or a moderator can
monitor chat

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Note
 Functions just like Word
 Share a note with
attendees
 Talking point to discuss
later
 Extra information for
your attendees
 Information they can
view on there own at
a later date
 Extra Resources

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Poll
 Create your own Poll
 Choose your own topic
and create your own
answers
 Multiple Choice
 Multiple Answers
 Track Responses

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Weblinks
 Direct attendees to a
website in one click
 Adobe Connect
automatically opens your
desired webpage on all
attendees desktops

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Video and Audio
 Broadcast Video and Audio to
all attendees
 Choose one or the other
 Control audio and video of
attendees

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Recording
 Record your meeting or training
in 1-click
 Allows attendees to review
information on their own
 Share your session in other
venues
 YouTube
 Conferences
 Networking

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Virtual Classroom Best
Practices
① Know Your Audience
② Have a Presentation Style

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Best Practices
 Know Your Audience
 What does your audience already know
 What is their role? (Faculty, Students, Administration)
 Determines content you include and the amount of explanation
provided

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Best Practices
 Know Your Presentation Style
 Holding Attention
 Think about what you find appealing?
 Take from TV, Radio shows
 Classroom to Online
 Stories: Keep them brief and relevant
 Practice until you are comfortable with the content
 Have visual content – video, photos, websites. Have more than you
need
 Announce if you need a minute for technical difficulty, or to find
something
 Briefly introduce your self via video – allows attendees to connect to you
 Ask users to introduce themselves via chat or poll

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Q&A and Practice Session

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Evaluations