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[Learn. The How Series from Adobe] [Created by BROOKWOOD] [Presented by Jacquie Beck www.brookwood.com] [Adobe Connect 8 Overview] [*Adobe Connect meetings and the role of Hosts *Adobe Connect training] [and the role of training managers *Adobe Connect Events Management] This is the Adobe Connect central home page, and we thought it would be a good place to start with an overview of Adobe Connect 8. Adobe Connect is a flash powered platform, and depending upon licensing and permissions within your organization, you can create web meetings, e-learning courses and virtual classrooms and webinars. We'll briefly touch on each of these areas and the roles involved as part of our overview. Web meetings are set up by meeting hosts. If we click on meetings, we can quickly set up a meeting. We click new meeting, and all we really have to do at this point is enter a name. Since Adobe Connect meetings are persistent, that is they're always available, unless you delete them. It's a good idea to type in a URL that's easy to remember. How about overview? The meeting wizard takes us through several additional steps, such as determining who is going to be part of the meeting, and how they're going to get notified. As we mentioned, web meetings aren't just valid for the time we've set them up, they remain available always or at least until you as a host or an administrator decides to delete them. Web meetings, e-learning courses and virtual classrooms as well as webinars are all persistent. We can look at Adobe Connect training by clicking on the training tab. Training managers have the rights needed to create courses and curricula. We can see an entire curriculum has been built. If we explore that we'll see that a number of courses have been attached to it, and if we check out a course, we can see that Adobe Presenter presentations make up this asynchronous online learning course. Quizzes and test data can be stored in learning management systems or on Adobe Connect central. Adobe Connect training is also a vibrant online synchronous learning tool. Let's go back to the training tab, and as a training manager, we can click new virtual classroom. Virtual classrooms are created in much the same way as meetings, and if we join one, we'll just switch over to a virtual classroom in progress. We can see that it allows instructors to appear on camera, presenters to share their desktops, applications or presentations, and allows students to participate interactively. The events management tab can be used to set up and manage a webinar. You can track campaign data, collect marketing information about people who register for the events, and you can manage notifications to everyone. Reporting is another key element of Adobe Connect. Let's click on report, and we can see that reporting is available for every Adobe Connect function. Just as an example, you could click on learner reports and see every detail of courses attended, performance on tests and more. Reports can be customized by queries and by filters. We've created a series of detailed tutorials on the many features of Adobe Connect 8, and we hope you'll take the time to review those that apply to your organization's requirements. That was our overview of Adobe Connect.
