Adobe Acrobat Connect TEACHING & LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT PURDUE Adobe Acrobat Connect: Conducting Live Meetings on the Web https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu ADOBE ACROBAT CONNECT PROFESSIONAL 7.1 Table of Contents WHAT IS ADOBE ACROBAT CONNECT? ............................................................................................................... 1 ACCESSING ADDITIONAL HELP RESOURCES .................................................................................................................. 1 USING CONNECT .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................................................................................... 2 ACCESSING CONNECT ............................................................................................................................................... 3 STUDENTS...................................................................................................................................................................... 3 FACULTY AND STAFF ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 DOWNLOADING ADOBE ACROBAT ADD-INS AND HELPER APPLICATIONS ..................................................................... 4 CREATING A MEETING.............................................................................................................................................. 6 PARTICIPATING IN A MEETING ....................................................................................................................................... 9 DEFAULT TEMPLATES FOR MEETING LAYOUTS ........................................................................................................... 10 USING LAYOUTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 MEETING ROOM PODS ............................................................................................................................................ 11 SHARE ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 ATTENDEE LIST ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 CHAT ........................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Q & A .......................................................................................................................................................................... 13 NOTE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 13 CAMERA AND VOICE ................................................................................................................................................... 13 FILE SHARING .............................................................................................................................................................. 14 POLL ............................................................................................................................................................................ 15 WEB LINKS .................................................................................................................................................................. 15 SETTING YOUR CAMERA AND AUDIO FOR CONNECT MEETING .............................................................. 15 SETTING UP YOUR CAMERA ........................................................................................................................................ 16 STARTING CAMERA AND VOICE DEVICES .................................................................................................................... 16 LOADING POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS TO THE SHARE POD ............................................................... 17 MEETING RECORDINGS .......................................................................................................................................... 18 TO RECORD A MEETING .............................................................................................................................................. 18 TO ACCESS THE RECORDING OF A MEETING ................................................................................................................. 18 EDITING RECORDINGS ................................................................................................................................................. 20 BREAKOUT ROOMS .................................................................................................................................................. 21 CREATING BREAKOUT ROOMS AND ASSIGNING MEMBERS .......................................................................................... 21 BEGINNING A BREAKOUT SESSION ............................................................................................................................... 23 VISITING BREAKOUT ROOMS ........................................................................................................................................ 24 COMMUNICATE IN BREAKOUT ROOMS USING THE ATTENDEE LIST .............................................................................. 24 ENDING A BREAKOUT SESSION ..................................................................................................................................... 25 Last Revised November 2008 i ADOBE ACROBAT CONNECT PROFESSIONAL 7.1 What is Adobe Acrobat Connect? Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is the general term Adobe uses to refer to its web communications system, comprised of applications aimed at real‐time and on‐demand communications for meetings, training, and events. Purdue University has a license for Adobe Connect Pro Meeting, and through it, a license for Adobe Presenter. Connect and Presenter are based on Adobe Acrobat Flash, a widely used technology for delivering interactive content on the web, and provides support for video, voice, data, animations and simulations. Adobe Acrobat estimates that the Flash Player is already installed on more than 98 percent of browsers worldwide, so most users should already have what they need to participate in a live Connect meeting or experience an on‐demand presentation. Adobe Connect Meeting offers real‐time meetings and seminars enriched with interactive presentations and discussion capabilities. It combines existing learning content assets with real‐ time interactivity between presenters and students for engaging collaborative teaching and learning experiences. Connect presenters can use PowerPoint slides, live and recorded video, Flash animations, live screen‐sharing, audio, and two‐way text chat to deliver more effective presentations. Adobe Presenter is a plug‐in fully integrated with Microsoft PowerPoint that simplifies and accelerates the creation, delivery, and sharing of narrated, self‐paced, media‐rich presentations for asynchronous teaching and learning. With Adobe Presenter, Purdue faculty and staff can create dynamic presentations and training courses, complete with a narrated voiceover, directly from within PowerPoint. It’s easy to incorporate video, animations and even software simulations. Using wizards, subject matter experts can select from a range of quiz types to turn any Adobe Presenter presentation into an eLearning module. This manual includes information about Adobe Connect Meeting. If you would like to find detailed information and instructions about using Adobe Presenter, please refer to our manual entitled Adobe Presenter: Creating Rich Multimedia Presentations from PowerPoint. Accessing Additional Help Resources Note that this manual only contains information about some of the basic features of Connect Meeting. For more information, you can refer to the Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting set of resources here: http://www.adobe.com/resources/acrobatconnect/ . Last Revised November 2008 1 TEACHING & LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES Using Connect Connect is an online application that lets you meet instantly with colleagues, students, or industry experts anywhere, anytime. Using the ubiquitous Adobe Flash plug‐in and a browser, you can enter, view, and participate in an online meeting. After you are in a meeting, you can view media‐ rich content, including PowerPoint slides, digital video, FlashPaper documents, Flash simulations, and other types of media. You can interact and collaborate with other meeting attendees using live video and voice broadcasts, chat messages, whiteboard drawings and annotations. You can also view and share applications on a presenter's computer. You can participate in a meeting‐room poll that immediately shows the results in the meeting. You can create breakout rooms on the fly for smaller group work. Some ideas for using Connect at Purdue University include: Have guest speakers present to your class through Connect: all they need is a simple webcam and microphone on their