Attending a webinar as a participant in

Adobe ConnectBy Fiona Beal

Check your system first!

If it is your first time in Adobe please do the following first:

If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before then test your connection: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htmThis is very important – do it before the time as it could take several minutes.

If you would like to get a quick overview you could click here.http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

This should be what you see after your check

Open the link to the webinar

Open the link that is given just under the Webinars. This link takes you to the actual meeting.

Sign in as a guest with your name and enter the room.

See you there but read on…..

How Adobe Connect works

Once you are in you automatically go in as a participant with no rights at all. Your name appears. You can’t hear anyone or do anything except type in the chat box with whoever is there. The host is the one who gives you rights to do other things. I will mostly be your host.

Your name appears here and you can type in the chat.

You might be able to hear something as I see the audio part is green!.

This is what you’ll see when you enter the

meeting1

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When the host enters

Once I am in as host I can enable your audio (and video if we were going to use that) so that you can speak. I can also give you the right to share a document with Screenshare. (By the way, because of our internet bandwidth problem in South Africa we won’t be using video.)

When I click on your name this screen comes up and I enable all these things if

necessary.

Speaking problems!

HOWEVER For some reason Adobe has an echo with more than two people, so generally we have to talk one at a time by handing over the microphone. It is a hassle, I know! You will mostly not say anything until question time, but you can ask questions via the chat box.

When the time comes for you to

speak…

When you click on microphone after this this block will open. Click on

‘allow’.

Handing over the microphone

When you are finished talking you say ‘Handing over the microphone to…’ and you mute your microphone. This just makes it better to listen to – but is awkward. Every action has to be verbalised.

Click here to mute your microphone AFER you have

said ‘Handing over to…”

This is what you’ll see. Click on ‘Mute my microphone’. That is how it goes on throughout the

conversation.

That’s enough for now

Well, hopefully that’s enough for now. See you at the webinar!