Transcript What's New in Adobe Connect 8?

WHAT’S NEW IN ADOBE
CONNECT 8?
JAN 2011
RESOURCES FOR BASICS
• Today: What’s New in Connect 8?
• Today’s session assumes you’ve used Connect
before
• Basic how-to and tips for effective webinars
• Creating Engaging Webinars In Adobe Connect
• http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/comptrain/co.shtml#on
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NEW PLUG-IN
• Need to go to test site to download new plug-in
and test connection speed
• http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/common/hel
p/en/support/meeting_test.htm
• Attendees should go there again for new version
• Once is enough
• Particularly important for hosts and presenters
ATTENDEE STATUS
• No longer in attendee pod
• Now in top toolbar
• I put instructions for doing this in my
opening layout
• A good idea to put any necessary “how-to”
instructions in your opening layout
• They can use chat pod or, if option is enabled
and they have a mike, they can talk
• Let’s try it!
NO MORE LAYOUT NAVIGATION BAR
• Used to move from layout to layout during a
presentation
• Sadly, no more…
• Use the Layout menu instead
CAMERA AND VOICE POD
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Click “Start My Camera”
Gives you a preview
New step: Click “Start Sharing” to share
Pause is in lower right; roll-over to see
Turn on/off Video in top toolbar pulldown as well
SOUND
• Meeting>Audio Setup Wizard is still
there
• Essential!!!
• Two new sound icons in toolbar
• Speakers
• Off, Mute conference, volume
• Microphone
• Disconnect, mute, volume
• Don’t click the icon!
• It’ll disconnect the microphone
AUDIO MENU
• Audio menu allows:
• Single Speaker mode
• Only one person can talk
• Disables mike for other participants
• Asterisk means you are the speaker
• Enable Audio For Participants
• Multiple speakers
• Very easy to step on each other’s sound
• Set up ground rules if you use this option
• E.g. – Raise hand before you speak
POD OPTIONS ICONS
• No longer in lower right
corner
• Now in upper right corner
• Specific options depend
on the pod
NOTE POD
• Allows formatting
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Text size
Color
Italics
Bullet points
• You can format selected portions of text
• Previously it was all or nothing
SHARE POD: START-UP
• Only one pulldown, that shows you all options
• Share your screen
• Share a PowerPoint, PDF or .jpg
• Bring up a whiteboard
SHARE PODS: FULL SCREEN
• For any share pod
• An End-user or Presenter option
• Participants can go Full screen with any share pod
• Click “Full Screen”
• Hosts can go full screen WITHOUT affecting Participant view
• To force full screen as host, go to “Pod Options” and
choose “Force Presenter View”
• Then click “Full Screen”
SHARE POD: DRAWING, POINTER
• Whiteboard (Draw) and pointer options are now at
top right of pod
• Last and next buttons, and sidebar (which is helpful
for speaker’s notes) still at lower left
ACCESSING YOUR NOTES IN
POWERPOINT
ATTENDEE POD
• Divides participants into three groups
• Hosts, Presenters, Participants
• You CAN’T raise hand from here
• Use top toolbar for that
• You can start a private chat from here
• Click on the person you wish to chat with
ATTENDEE POD: PROMOTING
• Click a name to promote to Presenter or Host
• You can enable their camera and sound from
here too
• They need to then turn on their own audio/video
from top toolbar
BREAKOUT ROOMS
• Click icon at top of Attendee pod
• Drag attendee icons into rooms
• Default is to evenly distribute
• Click “Start Breakouts” to start
CHAT POD
• Options pod allows you to:
• Change text size and color
• Text size change only applies to your screen
• Color change will be seen by all
• Start private chat
• More convoluted path to a private chat than previous versions
• Easier from Attendees pod
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MORE RESOURCES 1
• Adobe Tutorials and Quickstart Guides
• http://www.adobe.com/support/connect/gettingstarted/
• Or, Google “Adobe Connect 8”
• Creating Engaging Webinars In Adobe Connect
• http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/comptrain/co.shtml#on
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MORE RESOURCES 2
• Practice Room:
• http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/coloprac/
• Iowa State tutorials (Breeze=Connect):
• http://www.ext.colostate.edu/breeze/index.html
• Lynda.com tutorials
• http://lynda.colostate.edu/
• Free, need username and CSU eID
• Connect’s Help menu
• http://www.adobe.com/support/connect/gettingstarted/in
dex.html