Adobe Connect
Pods
Pods are little functional windows that open up a world of virtual experience design possibilities. Just add, name, position, and size the Pods to create virtual storyboards called layouts. Extend the horizon of possibilities with these Pods inside your rooms. Choose from our extended custom apps library, or create your own apps using our new HTML SDK.
Layouts
Create storyboards to guide your participants’ visual attention to where you want on your stage. Once the perfect virtual stage is ready, light it up with – images, multi-media, interactive courses, polls, quizzes, chats, or notes.
Brand customizations
Customize the visual aesthetics of your room with images, logos, and colors to suit your enterprise branding or the mood or theme of your story.
Templates
Convert your perfect stage to shared templates accessible to the team. Templates make it fast and easy, set up new rooms and ensure consistent experiences. Create an unlimited number of persistent rooms per licensed user.
Persistence
Hosts, presenters & participants can just ‘walk-in’ to persistent reusable rooms, set up ahead of time. You can create and then reuse polls, quizzes, and content for a different audience or at a different time.
Drawing & annotations
Start with a blank whiteboard or overlay color, text, shapes & annotations to bring participant’ attention to where you’d like. Let your participants do the same & jam together on this virtual flipchart.
Sidebar
Enables the most effective presenter capabilities inside Share Pod – searchable outline and presenter notes for nonlinear navigation and speaker notes, right beside the PowerPoint without needing a second monitor.
Breakouts
Split your primary classroom into multiple smaller rooms. Assign participants or use automatic even split. Bring the breakout content back to the main room to discuss & learn with the larger group.
Topic chats
Run multiple chat instances on the stage named by a topic of interest, to allow participants to engage in the most relevant peer interactions. Use colored text and emoticons for lively interactions.
Actions & requests
“Everybody who thinks today is a good day to be happy – give me a laugh.” This is an example of interactions we can make possible in a virtual room, much like a physical one. Allow your participants to seek your attention or invite them to participate and seek theirs.
Browse to
Use Web Links Pod to push a URL open into all participant browsers. It may be to launch a survey at the end of a session or send learners to an assessment or recording.
Multi-dimensional polls
Run a poll to know what percentage of your class prefers a or b or c. However, there isn’t always just one correct answer. We allow hosts the flexibility to ask questions and seek responses as multi-choice, multi-answer, or open-ended short answers. You can even view Sally’s vote right inside the live meeting and connect with her.
Moderated chat
Use a Q & A pod to have complete control over the visibility of questions, answers, and participant identities. Manage hundreds of questions in large webinars efficiently by assigning it to the right expert in the room.
Webcam 'pause’
Videos are indispensable for engaging interactions. However, video fatigue is real. We offer a middle path with the ability to use a freeze-frame when not actively interacting in group interactions.
Asynchronous browse
Allow participants to browse content at their pace, while instructors can keep the class moving forward.
Host & presenter area
Virtual backstage for multiple hosts, presenters, and to collaborate discreetly & effectively, as well as add/edit the onstage experience on the fly. Have the attendee list, agenda, notes, presenter’s chat, engagement dashboard, and presenter view of the moderated chat (Q&A pod) available in this backstage area.
Prepare mode
Enables producers to continue stage setting during live delivery but in stealth mode, without impacting the ongoing presentation for presenters or participants.
Engagement dashboard
Read your audience just like you would from a real stage. Use it as a cue to adjust your pace or delivery formats and bring them back. This score aggregates the digital body language based on various interactive participation parameters, not just attention tracking.
Accessible videos
Support for embedded MP4 subtitles, descriptive audio for hearing impaired & second language audio tracks, to drive better participant engagement, comprehension & retention.
Accessible documents
PDFs shared natively can now be made available to screen readers, enabling sight-impaired participants to hear the text.
Accessible chats
Choose the color and size settings of text in Chat Pods to suit your need or preference.
Content library
Your central content repository in the cloud, allowing you to share content natively from any device. Native sharing ,as an alternative to screen sharing, needs a fraction of bandwidth, allowing participants to join even with low connectivity or low-performance devices.
Event catalogue & microsites
Leverage the embedded power of
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to setup & promote webinars and virtual events with completely brandable, customizable landing pages and registration forms. Build long term association with your prospects through the funnel with user accounts, easily enabled with custom or social logins.
Email promotion, confirmations & reminders
Automated custom branded HTML mailers with embedded calendar events to invite, confirm, or remind your target audience, from the pre-set enterprise user groups or your .csv uploads. Choose from existing templates or create your own to get going in just a few clicks.
Campaign & lead source tracking
Measure & report conversion for each promotional channel with trackable URLs. The trackability isn’t lost at the registration page but sustains into the CRM so you can trace and route leads back to promotional partners.
Custom exports
Create your export formats with custom fields as required by your CRM or backend. We enable you with the flexibility to fit Adobe Connect right into your ecosystem.
Event analytics
Event reports, powered by Adobe Analytics, can showcase lead conversion funnels by event or by the campaign. Use the attendance & engagement report for chat, Q&A, file downloads, polls & status usage as your lead qualification criterion.
Least privilege principle
Our UI & configuration settings allow a host to have the highest control, while others join with the least privilege. Meeting hosts can control who enters a meeting and assign role-based rights to co-presenters and participants.
Interactive content
Rapidly create and deploy content using authoring tools such as Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter. Add quizzes, interactions, and simulations to your virtual classrooms.
Custom apps
The ways you can use an Adobe Connect classroom is limited by nothing but your imagination. Use one of our custom apps or create your own with our new HTML SDK to add fun games, random participant selector, timers, clocks, surveys and much more to your classrooms.
LMS integrations
Manage and track learning curriculum and learner enrollment by integrating with Adobe Learning Manager or with any existing Learning Management System.
Ease of access – browsers, mobile
No app or add-ins to download. With new HTML browser clients, leverage almost* all capabilities with a single click, right from the browser. Never miss the audience whose IT policy may prohibit web downloads. Host, share, collaborate, and train anywhere, anytime, with the Adobe Connect mobile app for Android and iOS. Download Now ›
*Screensharing requires native desktop application.
Accessibility features
Leverage the accessible design provided by
Adobe Connect design to reach millions of individuals with visual, auditory, or mobility impairments. Make use of our newest features such as support for embedded MP4 subtitles and multiple audio tracks, including foreign language and descriptive audio, for participants with a hearing impairment.
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Accessibility Considerations | Accessibility features | WCAG 2.0 compliance | Adobe’s commitment to accessibility
Remote desktop access
Hosts can access participant endpoints with their permission. Opens several powerful propositions for interactive product demos or customer support scenarios.
Meeting analytics & system usage
Attendance reports by attendees, session, or meeting room are aggregated for all sessions over a period. Poll and quiz reports are aggregated by session. Administrators empowered to set up their reports as granular or high level as required. Know system usage by individual, group, cost center, peak users & mobile users.