Attending a webinar as a participant (in Adobe

Connect)

By Fiona Beal

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

Check your system first!

This should be what you see after your check

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…..

Open the link to the webinar

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.

How Adobe Connect works

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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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 the host enters

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

things if necessary.

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.

Speaking problems!

When the time comes for you to speak…

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

Click on ‘allow’.

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.

Handing over the microphone

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.

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

That’s enough for now