ITS would like to invite you to Adobe Acrobat Connect Information Day on Thursday, July 9, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. You can attend in person at the ACES Avaya Auditorium (ACE 2.302), or remotely using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro (morning session and afternoon session).
The university has selected Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro to use for campus Web conferencing. Acrobat Connect enables faculty and staff to create and share presentations and online training materials. Meeting organizers can create a meeting room, invite individuals to a meeting, then present both audio and video information to attendees. Organizers can share their screens, PowerPoint presentations or other documents for collaborative or teaching purposes. Participants have access to notes, a chat room and a whiteboard to further enhance the collaborative experience.
The schedule for Adobe Acrobat Connect Information Day is as follows:
Morning Session
9 - 9:10 a.m. — Opening Comments
9:10 - 10:40 a.m. — Overview of Acrobat Connect with Ian Justin of GetConnect
Note: Ian will be a remote presenter using Acrobat Connect. This presentation will be recorded and made available after the live session.
- Setup and hosting of meetings in Acrobat Connect
- Scheduling a meeting
- Using the meeting room paradigm
- Inviting participants
- Sharing PowerPoint, applications and desktops
- Whiteboards
- Remote control using camera and voice presenter-only area ("off-stage")
- The roles of host, presenter and participant and how to use them
- Recording a meeting and distributing the recording
- Levels of audience interaction (polls, quizzes, surveys)
- Basic use of Adobe Presenter in meeting rooms
- Building quizzes and surveys in Adobe Presenter
- Tracking results
- Best practices and uses of Acrobat Connect
- Common challenges and issues
- How to get help and learn more – pointers to the Acrobat Connect help and documentation pages.
10:40 - 11 a.m. — UT Considerations (Jay Riekenberg/Sergio Martin)
- Audio options and quality
- Providing access to participants and collaborators (UT EID and guest access issues)
- Acrobat Connect learning plan and practice sessions
11 - 11:30 a.m. — Q&A
Afternoon Session
1 - 2:30 p.m. — Adobe Presenter with Rick Miller of Adobe Systems
- Content authoring within Microsoft PowerPoint
- Audio narration and editing
- Inserting video and capturing video
- Quiz authoring
- Survey authoring
3 - 4:30 p.m. — Captivate 4 with Rick Miller of Adobe Systems
- UI overview
- Creating software and scenario simulations
- Audio narration and editing
- Table of contents and aggregator
- Customizable widgets
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Showing Adobe Photoshop layer support
- Variables and advanced actions
