On occasion you might have a use-case where you want your Presenters and Hosts to use the Toll-Free phone line and your Participants to only be able to join using VoIP, usually this would be broadcast only (no Participants using their microphones)The issue with the regular Universal Voice configuration is that you are going to […]
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Is there a way to accurately test my ability to use Connect Meetings?
There are a number of tests that you can carry out to ensure you are able to attend a Connect Meeting, but often the best test is to be able to actually enter a room and see if it works The information below will link you to a Connect Meeting Room that has been configured […]
How Does Audio in Breakout Rooms split into Sub-Conferences?
Connect will do a great job of breaking users out into Breakout Rooms in a *visual* manner right out of the box Audio has a few more options ad considerations depending on the integration you have chosen Option 1 (VoIP through the computer) – If the user uses VoIP then the VoIP audio will split into […]
How do I set up Meeting Hosts in my Connect Account?
If you need to give people in your organization the rights to create and use Meeting Rooms then you will need to add them to the ‘Meeting Hosts’ groupThe process is essentially the same for both the ‘Named Organizer’ and the ‘Concurrent Participants’ licensing options Everyone – As an Administrator, log into your hosted account […]
What Accessibility Features are in Connect?
Some information for Connect 8 below Adobe Connect Accessibility White Paper:http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/adobeconnect/pdfs/web-conferencing/connect-accessibility-whitepaper.pdf Adobe Connect Accessibility: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/adobeconnect.html Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/compliance/adobe-connect-9-section-508-vpat.html Connect Closed Captioning Pod: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/feature-details/closed-captioning.html Connect Accessibility Features (from the ‘Help’ section): http://help.adobe.com/en_US/connect/8.0/using/WS5ae85155c1a0214d1172e081227b89777b-8000.html
How large are offline Connect Recordings?
If you convert a Connect Recording to an offline format you will of course lose the ‘intelligence’ of the recording. The relative sizes and data use by time for offline options are below.Note that I just used the default settings in the ‘Any DVD Converter Professional’ tool for iPad and iPhone for the mp4 conversions, […]
Guide to using the voice options in Connect Meetings
Pre-Reading: For more information on the overall voice options in Connect, please see the article here. This will give you an understanding of the phone and VoIP (voice through computer) options in Connect 8 Meetings The quick summary of terminology used in this article is as follows: Fully Integrated Conferencing (FIC) – this refers to […]
Do you know of any ‘voice-tracking’ cameras?
I do have a camera with ‘tracking’, but it is tracking the face of the presenter (or multiple presenters on average in some cases). Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/webcam-communications/webcams/devices/3480 There is no regular camera that will track voice that I know of other than the very expensive option from Microsoft *but* that was not working […]
How can I ask questions of participants in a Connect Meeting?
If you want to ask a poll question (for example during a slide presentation) then you can have a Poll that you have previously created that you can ‘pop-up’ in the context of the correct slide, or anywhere for that matter. You build the Poll question in the meeting from the ‘Pods’>’Poll’>’Add new Poll’ menu […]
When does a Connect Meeting Room time-out?
I ran a clean room over the weekend on my Connect 8 account and it closed after 12 hours. Note that I had set the ‘Session Timeout’ in the ‘Administration’ tab to 120 minutes so clearly that *only* affects the web interface (Connect Central) The message when the room eventually closed itself is in Figure […]