Teaching Over the Wire: Using Adobe Connect Meeting's New Features
Summary: In this session, users will learn about new features of Adobe Connect Meeting, including how to:
- set up and use an audio bridge,
- create amd use all of the features of breakout rooms,
- edit recordings on the Connect server,
- download meeting recordings and view them offline,
- incorporate Flash presentations created in Adobe Presenter in an online meeting,
- more easily control access to the room and delegate permissions to other participants, and
- access and download room and polling statistics.
Description:
Much more than just videoconferencing software, Adobe Connect 7.1 introduces some new and exciting features for users. This presentation will demonstrate these new features live with remote and local participants. Emphasis will be given to using the new features in instructional situations.
Breakout Rooms: with Connect 7.1, meeting hosts can now create up to five "breakout rooms" on the fly during a meeting, distributing participants among the rooms for smaller group work and discussion. During breakout sessions, the meeting hosts can make announcements to all groups, visit each room if they wish, and bring content from any of the breakout rooms back into the main meeting room.
Changes to Recordings: one enhancement eagerly-awaited by users is the ability to download Connect meeting recordings. With Connect 6, recordings were stored in individual user accounts on the Connect server, and when the user left the university, their account and recordings were deleted. Connect 7.1 allows users to download their recordings from the server into an .flv format file, playable by a media player such as Adobe's free Media Player. Connect 7.1 also allows hosts to do simple edits to remove sections of an online meeting recording.
Access and participant rights management: meeting hosts can now block incoming attendees or guest access until they are ready for a meeting to begin. Attendees receive a customizable message and are then admitted automatically when the host allows. In addition, hosts can select individual attendees and grant them rights to use specific tools, such as audio, the Share pod, and many more. Participants can also raise their hands, and when the host or presenter approves, they are given the microphone to broadcast audio.
An additional and underused tool in Adobe Connect Meeting is its reporting. The presentation will include an exploration of how Connect tracks participants, meeting activity and polling answers.
Breakout Rooms: with Connect 7.1, meeting hosts can now create up to five "breakout rooms" on the fly during a meeting, distributing participants among the rooms for smaller group work and discussion. During breakout sessions, the meeting hosts can make announcements to all groups, visit each room if they wish, and bring content from any of the breakout rooms back into the main meeting room.
Changes to Recordings: one enhancement eagerly-awaited by users is the ability to download Connect meeting recordings. With Connect 6, recordings were stored in individual user accounts on the Connect server, and when the user left the university, their account and recordings were deleted. Connect 7.1 allows users to download their recordings from the server into an .flv format file, playable by a media player such as Adobe's free Media Player. Connect 7.1 also allows hosts to do simple edits to remove sections of an online meeting recording.
Access and participant rights management: meeting hosts can now block incoming attendees or guest access until they are ready for a meeting to begin. Attendees receive a customizable message and are then admitted automatically when the host allows. In addition, hosts can select individual attendees and grant them rights to use specific tools, such as audio, the Share pod, and many more. Participants can also raise their hands, and when the host or presenter approves, they are given the microphone to broadcast audio.
An additional and underused tool in Adobe Connect Meeting is its reporting. The presentation will include an exploration of how Connect tracks participants, meeting activity and polling answers.
Ben Holmes
Support Specialist
Purdue University
Support Specialist
Purdue University
Ben Holmes is a Support Specialist for Purdue faculty who use Adobe Connect, Blackboard, and other software packages to enhance the classroom experience. He received a Bachelor’s in Sociology from Purdue in 2005. In addition to teaching and learning technology, he is interested in photography, film, film restoration, and multi-track audio recording.
Sasi Benzigar
Educational Technologist
Purdue University
Educational Technologist
Purdue University
After getting an MA in Instructional Technology in 1996, Sasi joined with Teaching and Learning Technologies at Purdue University as an Educational Technologist. His job duties include consulting, training and support for all instructional tools supported by the Teaching and Learning Technologies at Purdue. Sasi is currently working on his doctoral dissertation from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati - Ohio.