Adobe connect pro pods

If you are sharing an application and showing the native cursor of the application, you can enable the Show Application Cursor option in the Screen Share tab in the Preferences dialog. Use the slider to change the quality of the screen sharing session. Whatever value you choose here, the quality of the screen share reflects the same.

For example, if there are large delays before attendees see changes to a shared screen, reduce the Quality setting. If you are an attendee or you have joined through HTML client in a browser, you cannot share your screen. Ask a host to select your name in the Attendees pod and click Request to Share Screen. Shares the contents of your desktop.

If you have more than one monitor connected to your computer, a desktop appears for each monitor. Choose the desktop that you want to share. The Secure Desktop Sharing option appears only if the account administrator has restricted the applications and processes that you can share.

The Desktop option allows you to share authorized contents on your desktop. Shares an authorized application and all its related windows that are open and running on your computer. Choose the application or applications that you want to share. Shares one or more authorized windows that are open and running on your computer. Choose the window or windows that you want to share. Hosts and Presenters who share their screen can share, collaborate, and take some in-meeting actions directly from a Mini-Control palette displayed only for the user sharing the screen.

You can use a new set of tools in a redesigned palette to move to either side of the screen. Back to Connect room B. Share preview C. Volume D. Microphone E. Video F. Attendee list G. Chat H. Notifications I.

Pause and Annotate. Back to Connect room. When sharing an application, window, or desktop, the host can see a preview that shows what participants see in their Share pod. Controls the meeting volume using the slider. This controls the telephony bridge, VoIP audio, and the chat sounds.

To mute, drag the volume slider all the way to the left. Allows you to connect to a microphone. However, if connected to an audio bridge, the telephony icons are also displayed.

You can quickly mute and unmute by clicking on the icon. Allows to access your webcam and view the other participants' camera. The host also has the ability to start sharing, pause the meeting, and stop sharing. Attendee list. Allows the host to view the chat sent by any participant.

However, the host cannot initiate the chat using the palette. If the host receives any new chats, the chat icon displays a red dot. You can click the icon to view all the chats.

Allows to view and take action on the in-meeting notifications. If you have any new notifications, for example, start or stop recording, any new user waiting for the access, etc. You can click the icon to view all the notifications.

Pauses your current screen share and allows using whiteboard tools to annotate the screen. The host can then resume or stop sharing the screen from the palette itself.

An Adobe Connect icon appears in your system tray Windows while you are sharing your screen. Click on this icon to view a menu where you can access the available options, like pause sharing and annotate, choosing which window to share and stop sharing. Hosts and Presenters who share their screen, can share, collaborate, and take some in-meeting actions directly from a Mini-Control that opens in the Compact mode. The palette is displayed only for the user sharing the screen. Use the icon in the top bar of the Share pod B.

Use the notifier in the upper right corner of the meeting room C. Use the option in the context menu of the Share pod. The presenter can take multiple actions from the MiniControl and can access some pods, like the Chat pod and the Attendees pod.

If a pod is not available in the meeting room, its icon in the MiniControl is disabled. The presenter can also see the in-meeting notifications in the palette. Switch to the traditional meeting room by clicking Switch to Meeting Room in the upper right corner of the MiniControl.

Control the camera, speaker, and microphone options in the meeting room. View the webcam feeds available in the meeting room in Grid or Filmstrip layout and switch the primary feed.

You can disable the MiniControl from the Meeting Preferences. By default, this option is selected. While screen sharing, you can transfer control of the shared desktop, window, or application to another host or presenter. Hosts and presenters can request control of the screen. They can take control once they receive the necessary permissions. If the request is accepted, a message informs you that you have been granted control of the screen. The Request Control button becomes a Release Control button.

You can now take control of the shared screen. Click Release Control on the Share pod control strip to return control of the shared screen to the original Host or Presenter. If another presenter is sharing a screen with you, you can scale the screen to fit entirely within the Share pod. In addition, you can zoom in for a clearer image. Note: The mini-pallete is not available when you start screensharing from browser. Select any screen and click Share. When you click Window , you can see the list of all active applications that you can share over the browser.

If you are on a macOS, you must provide permissions to the browser to access all the applications. Navigate to the System Preferences and grant access to all the applications.

See the section below. When you click the browser tab option, you can see a list of all browser tabs that are open for a particular screen. Choose the tab that you want to share.

If you click Share for the first time, a dialog appears prompting you to open the system preferences. Click Open System Preferences and grant the necessary permissions for sharing the screen. If you click Deny and then try to share the screen via the browser, you cannot share the screen.

In addition, you would not see any confirmation or message for the same. When the option is enabled and a participant tries to share the screen on the browser, there is a prompt that asks the participant to launch Adobe Connect, and then share the screen via the application.

As a host or presenter, you can share documents that have been uploaded to the Content library, or share documents directly from your computer. Sharing documents from the Content library has the following advantages over sharing your screen:.

If you turn off sharing, change the content in a Share pod, or close the Share pod, the document is still part of the meeting room. It can be displayed again. To edit a shared document, edit the source document and reload it into the meeting. In the Content library, PDF files are stored as is. When shared in a meeting room, PDF files are converted to SWF files to enable synchronized navigation and whiteboard capabilities. From the Share pod, hosts and presenters can download PDF files. Participants can download PDF files if hosts and presenters click the Sync button to turn off display synchronization.

In some cases objects within the PDF are either dropped, or only a simple image preview is displayed. The following objects retain a simple image preview an image representing the object in Adobe Connect:. This feature is only enabled by the host or presenters. With the PDF displayed in a Share pod, click the Sync navigation with participants button at the upper-right corner to disable synchronization.

Once disabled, the participants will then see an option to download the content with " Save as " from the menu options in the upper-right corner of the Share pod.

With the PDF displayed in a Share pod, click the Draw button at the upper-right corner to turn it on. Once turned on, the participants will see an option to print from the menu options in the upper-right corner of the Share pod.

As a host or presenter, you can share the supported file types from the Content library or your computer. The Content library is available in Adobe Connect Central. However, GIF format is not supported when you share content by browsing to your local file system using the file picker dialog. You create presentations from PowerPoint presentations using Adobe Presenter. Uploaded Files. Click Browse My Computer to upload content for the current meeting.

An administrator can move the document to the Shared Content folder to make the document available for other meetings. Share History. Displays content in other user folders in Adobe Connect Central. We are working on this and will release a fix shortly with all the other file formats supported in the updated CEF application.

Shared Content. Displays content in Adobe Connect Central that is available to all account holders with the appropriate permissions. The selected document appears in the Share pod. The document name appears in the title bar of the pod.

By default, Adobe Connect synchronizes display of documents so that attendees see the frame that the presenter sees. A host or presenter can use the Sync button to turn off synchronization. This functionality lets attendees go through presentations or PDF documents at their own pace. With content loaded in the Share pod, click the Sync navigation with participants at the upper-right corner to disable synchronization. Controls for presentation playback appear at the bottom of the Share pod.

For hosts or presenters who share a presentation in the Share pod, special controls are available for navigating and displaying the presentation. A presentation layout has the following areas:. Area on the right of the browser window that shows the name of the presentation, Outline, Notes, and Search tabs.

If you cannot see the sidebar, click Show Side Bar at the lower left of the presentation. A bar at the bottom of the presentation that gives you control over the presentation playback, audio, attachments, and screen size. The bar is visible to hosts only, unless a host chooses to display it to participants.

To see all presentation toolbar options, load the presentation file to the Content library from Adobe Presenter. Deselect Sync navigation with participants at the upper right corner of the presentation.

Most presentations have an Outline tab on the sidebar. The Outline tab lists the title and duration of each slide. You can use the Outline tab to display information and to move to a specific slide in the presentation. The current slide is highlighted with a glow color, which you can change in the theme. You can choose to display the highlight outline to all attendees or to hosts and presenters only.

Presentations can have a Thumb tab on the sidebar. The Thumb tab shows a small picture of each slide, the slide title, and the slide duration. You can use the Thumb tab to see the contents each slide quickly and to move to a specific slide in the presentation. If you upload your presentations directly from your computer and into a meeting, the Thumb tab is not displayed. Adobe recommends adding presentations to a meeting from the Content library. When creating a presentation in PowerPoint, you can enter notes for individual slides.

If any slide notes exist, they can be displayed in the presentation. Slide notes appear on the right side of the presentation window. You cannot change the size of the slide Notes tab.

The complete notes text is displayed. The text is not formatted and cannot be edited directly on the tab. You can control the presentation appearance and playback by using the toolbar at the bottom of the presentation. To see all presentation toolbar options, load the presentation file in the Content library from Adobe Presenter. Delsect Sync navigation with participants at the upper right corner of the presentation. Slide progress bar. Shows and controls the playback location within the current slide.

The position marker moves as the slide plays. You can drag the marker arrow forward or back in the current slide to change your playback location. You can also click a specific location on the progress bar to move the slide marker position and slide playback there. Current slide number.

Shows the status of the current slide, such as Playing, Stopped, No audio, or Presentation complete. Shows the current slide time and the total slide time as the slide plays for example, Audio volume. Displays a small window showing any attachments for example, documents, spreadsheets, images, or URLs that have been added. A host or presenter or a participant with the necessary rights can use a whiteboard to create collaborative text, drawings, and annotations in a meeting.

Hosts and Presenters can let any participant draw on whiteboard by granting the drawing rights in three ways. Participants cannot turn on the Drawing mode for Share pods with these rights.

The above changes in the settings are effective immediately for all the new Adobe Connect sessions. Account Administrators can enable or disable HTML client in their account for meetings, trainings, and webinars.

They can force-enable HTML client for all existing rooms in their account. From the Require Adobe Connect application section, Administrators can force the usage of Adobe Connect application for desktop for everyone to join a Meeting, a Training, or a Webinar.

Select the applicable option and click Save. Users who do not have the Adobe Connect application installed on their machines, are prompted to install it. These settings are immediately effective for all new Adobe Connect sessions. Only administrators have access to the Training Catalog by default. An administrator must set permissions for the Training Catalog before Training Managers can use it. Administrators can create any folder and permissions structure. For example, an Administrator could give the whole Training Managers group permission to manage the root folder of the Training Catalog.

In another example, an Administrator could create folders for each Training Manager. Creating a custom URL is optional. If you change the custom URL, existing bookmarks break. Using the in-product help links, the on-premise users can access help and documentation local to their environment, instead of being directed to adobe.

Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. User Guide Cancel. Working in Adobe Connect Central. Login to Adobe Connect Central. In a browser window, enter the account URL included in the Welcome email. On the Login page, enter your login and password. Click Login. Edit your profile. Do any of the following:. Click My Profile to view your user information. Click Change My Password to change your password. Click Edit My Preferences to change your time zone and language.

Click My Audio Profiles to select or create an audio profile for an audio conference. Click Group Memberships to view your group memberships. Click Organization to view your manager and team member information. Determine Adobe Connect version number. Do one of the following:. Adobe Connect hosted accounts are automatically upgraded to the latest version of Adobe Connect.

Adobe Connect Central icons. In a curriculum, training that occurs outside Adobe Connect, such as classroom training. A recorded meeting or seminar, that users can view at their convenience. Image files can be drawings, photographs, charts, graphs, icons, or any other type of graphics. FLV file. A video file. HTML file. File defining the structure and layout of a web document using various tags.

MP3 file. An audio file. PDF file. An Adobe PDF file. SWF file. A Flash Player multimedia file. Creating administrators. Create an administrator. Select a user and click Information. Click Edit Group Membership. Select the Administrators group and click Add. Create a limited administrator. Select the Administrators - Limited group and click Add. Set permissions for the limited administrators group. Select Administrators - Limited and click Information. Click Edit Limited Administrator Permissions.

Click Reset to Default to restore default limited administrator permissions. View and edit account information. Default time zone Default language Event user policy if the Events feature is part of your account Primary contact information. View account information. Click the Administration tab. The Account Summary shows details about your account and its features. The number of authors in your installation compared to the number that is permitted. The number of Event Managers in your installation compared to the number that is permitted.

A feature that allows you to customize and brand your account. A feature that allows you to access the Reports wizard. Edit account information. Click Edit Information. To change the default language, select a language from the Default Language pop-up menu. To change the default time zone, select a time zone from the Default Time Zone pop-up menu. Click Save.

Pricing models. There is one pricing model for training:. Edit account notification settings. With Account selected, click Notifications and choose the desired settings.

Configure multiple product notifications. Under Product Notification Settings, select the start date and end date for the notifications.

In the message box, type the notification message and click Save. When the user opens a meeting, the product notification message is displayed in the Notifications pod. View account usage information. Login to Adobe Connect Central and click the Administration tab.

Click Administration Dashboard to see a graphical representation of your quota usage across the system. Move the pointer over any bar to see the precise maximum figure for that bar. The gray bar represents your current usage, and the dark green bar represents your limit. Click either bar in a group quota graph to display a group information page. Customize the branding of an account.

Customize the Adobe Connect Central user interface. Background color. Top links text color for the Help and Logout links in the upper-right corner. Navigation text color for the links below the tab bar.

Selection highlight color. Table header color for the bars that identify page titles or columns on list pages. Use an image with white background rather than a transparent image. Click Customization.

In the list to the right of the color grid, click the item whose color you want to change. Click a color in the grid. Enter a color code, such as 33CC66, into the text box. To change the color swatch to the previous setting, click Clear. To restore all colors and the banner logo to the defaults, click Reset To Default. Click Apply to save your changes.

Your changes appear in 5 seconds to 10 seconds; alternatively, you can refresh the page. Customize your Adobe Connect account. How an administrator can customize and brand an Adobe Connect account. Customize the login page. Click Customize Login. To restore the original setting, click Reset To Default. Customize the appearance of Adobe Connect meetings. You can customize the appearance of your meetings depending on the type of Adobe Connect client you are using: Flash client and application for desktop HTML client.

Flash client and application for desktop. Click Customize Meeting. In the list of buttons to the right of the color grid, click one of the following:. Menu highlight color Focus border color the color outline around borders of objects such as buttons Background color App bar color the color of the upper application bar App bar text color the color of menu text Pod bar color Pod bar text color. If you do not select a logo, the Adobe Connect logo is used.

To link the logo to a website, enter a path in the Logo URL box. HTML client. In the Colors section, you can click one of the following rectangles to set color preferences:.

App Bar Color of the application bar. Pod Bar Color of the pod bar. Room Background Color of the meeting room background. Click the following as required: Clear Removes your setting. Apply Saves your setting. Your changes appear in 5 to 10 seconds; alternatively, you can refresh the page. Reset to Default Removes your custom setting and restores the default setting.

Allocate meeting minutes to cost centers. Associate users with cost centers manually. Click the Administration tab then click Users and Groups. Select a user from the list and click Information. Click Edit information. Click the Choose button beside the Cost Center box. Select a cost center from the list. Enable cost center reporting.

Click Users and Groups then click Cost Centers. Choose a radio button to determine how minutes are allocated. To search, add, delete, or edit a cost center, click Manage Cost Centers.

Disable cost center reporting. Deselect Enable Cost Center Reporting. Working with compliance and control settings. Not all compliance features are available to Hosted customers. Customize compliance and control settings.

Click Compliance and Control. Click Pods Management and do any of the following:. Choose whether to disable interactive audio between VoIP and conference bridge.

Choose whether to disable Video telephony. Click Share Settings and do any of the following:. Individual screen sharing modes lets you disable screen sharing modes and prevents users from sharing unauthorized content. You can use different Notes pods for different layouts and meetings. A host, presenter, or participant with enhanced rights can edit the text in a Notes pod.

See Assign enhanced participant rights. All changes are immediately visible to attendees. Choose Notes from the menu at the top of the title bar. Select the name of the note you want to display, or click the menu in a Notes pod, click Select Notes, and select the name of the note you want to display. Choose Manage Pods from the menu at the top of the title bar. From the toolbar on the top, click the Hyperlink icon. The Insert Hyperlink in Notes dialog box opens.

Alternatively, select Email to send the contents to recipients over email. Use the Chat pod to communicate with other attendees while a meeting is in progress. If you have a question and do not want to disturb the meeting flow, you can send a chat message to another meeting participant. For example, when you first enter a meeting room, you can introduce yourself by sending a chat message to everyone in the room.

As a presenter, you can use multiple Chat pods simultaneously. Chat pods can display content either to everyone or only to presenters in the Host and Presenter Area. Chat pod content persists in a meeting room until deleted.

If you want to preserve the content for future use, send the content through email. Use the Chat pod to compose a chat message and address it to a specific participant, to all presenters at the meeting, or to all attendees. By default, everyone can view the chat messages. The hosts and presenters can add more tabs to do a private chat by clicking Add a tab at the top of the Chat Pod. You have an option to choose among Hosts, Presenters, or any attendee. Click Send at the right of the text box.

The Chat pod can generate a sound to alert a user, if two chat messages are more than five seconds apart. This option is available individually for each Chat pod and is specific to a meeting room. It is remembered across all the meeting sessions of a meeting room. Chat pod messages are persistent and are available in different instances of the same meeting room. When an empty Chat pod is required in a meeting, a Host can irreversibly clear all messages for all attendees.

Hosts can also hide a Chat pod and create a new pod. You cannot retrieve the cleared chat messages. In the upper-right corner of the Chat pod, click icon. By default, two participants can chat privately. As a host or presenter, you can disable this option and prevent private chat. If you are a host or presenter, chat notifications let you communicate with your audience while you are presenting.

The meeting window is minimized or maximized to full-screen, concealing the Chat pod. If an attendee sends a message while you are presenting, a notification appears in the lower-right corner of the screen. By default, chat notifications are enabled.

However, you can disable the display of notifications during presentations. From the pop-up menu, choose either Disable or set a time duration to display each notification. In the upper-right corner of the Chat pod, click icon, and select any of the following:. Show Timestamps. Go Full Screen. If you are an attendee, you have the following formatting options when you click icon:. While you are logged into a meeting room, all the messages you send and receive remain in your Chat pod. The host has the privilege to request e-mail chat from ' Everyone ' tab, ' Hosts ' tab, ' Presenters ' tab and any private chat in which he has been participating.

In the upper-right corner of the Chat pod, click. For users that use JAWS or some other accessibility tool, they can read the messages in the reverse order by selecting Reverse order of messages.

Messages in the Chat pod are read starting from the latest to the first, instead of the other way round. Hosts can give participants enhanced rights, letting them answer questions as well. After completing the presentation, the speaker reviews the messages, applies a filter, and begins answering the questions. A meeting moderator answers logistical questions but forwards technical inquiries to an engineer, who is presenting.

A meeting moderator returns certain replies to the sender only. Replies that are relevant to all attendees are sent to everyone in the meeting. Presenter View displays extra filtering and assignment controls visible only to hosts and presenters.

Participant View displays the simple list of questions and answers that participants see and the ones received from individuals. To the right of the text box, click Send , or press Enter. Reply to Everyone. Sends the answer to all meeting attendees. Reply Privately. Sends the answer only to the attendee who sent the question.

You can assign questions to presenters with specific expertise, including yourself, preventing others from answering. You can also forward a question to another presenter to answer. All Questions. Displays all questions that you have received, starting either with a new pod or from the last time the pod was cleared. Open Questions.

Answered Questions. Questions Assigned to Me. Displays only unanswered questions that have been assigned to you. A question answered by someone else, can still be reassigned to a user and then shows in their list. You can delete questions to clean up the Presenter View. Deleted questions and associated answers remain in the Participant's View.

Click Delete.