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Educators continually face time and technology challenges when developing online content,
leading online classes, and connecting and collaborating with students and peers. AdobeAcrobat Connect Pro and its suite of associated applications provide a complete system for
hosting and managing online meetings, seminars, presentations, training, and events. Your
organization may have purchased the entire Connect Pro system or a subset of these
applications. If certain functionality is not available to you, your organization may not have
purchased that application or your administrator may not have granted you the necessary
permissions.
The following applications are designed to work together.
Adobe Presenter
Create rich, narrated presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint® and deliver them through any standard web browser.
Presentations can include quizzes and surveys designed to share results with industry-standard learning management
systems.
Connect Pro Central
Access and control all Connect Pro applications and features by using Connect Pro Central. With Connect Pro
Central, you can set up and manage Connect Pro meetings, seminars, events, and training and manage content
(Figure 1). In addition, in the user management component of Connect Pro Central, you can set access permissions
for both the users of this content and the content itself. The features you can access depend on your system
configuration and permissions.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro includes a collection of applications and features you access by logging into your
Connect Pro user account. When you log in, you are accessing Connect Pro Central, where you can manage online
content and present online meetings or classes in which hosts share their screens and broadcast live audio and video
to attendees in real time.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro content
Store and manage reusable content for use in online meetings, classes, events, and seminars. View and
manage your online content on the Content tab.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro meetings
Connect Pro meetings are live online conferences for multiple users. A meeting room is an online
application you use to conduct a meeting. The meeting room consists of various display panels (pods) and
components. Choose from prebuilt meeting room layouts or customize a layout to suit your needs. Use
meeting rooms to teach online classes and to collaborate with colleagues or students. Schedule and manage
meetings and meeting rooms from the Meetings tab.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional Seminars
An Acrobat Connect Professional Seminar is a special kind of Connect Pro meeting. A meeting normallyhas 10 or fewer people, can be recurring, and often involves lots of audience interaction. A seminar is
typically a one-time meeting with at least 50 participants and often involves little or no audience
participation. Plan and manage seminars from the Seminar Rooms tab.
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Training
The Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Training application consists of three components: course, curriculum,
and virtual classroom. A virtual classroom is a Connect Pro meeting room configured for delivering online
The Administration tab includes options for adding and removing users (Figure 12). New users could be anyone
from students, faculty, and administrators to authors and course managers. Organize users in related groups. For
example, you might choose to create a group for students enrolled in a specific class. Once you have added users,
you can enroll them in courses or invite them to online meetings. You control which students and faculty have
access to the information you publish. When you invite a group, the invitation is mass-mailed to everyone in theselected group. Connect Pro Central includes several predefined user groups, including Administrators,
Administrators-Limited, Authors, Training Managers, Event Managers, Learners, Meeting Hosts, and Seminar
Hosts. Group membership provides access to different folders and features within Connect Pro.
Nothing can replace face-to-face human interaction; however, scheduling conflicts, geographical challenges, or
budget constraints sometimes make it impossible for faculty and learners to gather in the same physical location at
the same time. Live online meetings can be the next best thing to being there.
With Connect Pro, educators can make presentations live to a geographically scattered audience. Presenters can
show presentations, play video, share documents, and use a microphone and webcam so participants can see andhear them. They can also relate through text chat, polling, whiteboard, and slide annotation. With features such as
screen sharing and application sharing, presenters and participants can trade control of each other’s computer
screens, allowing for more interactive demonstration and support.
Conduct live classes and meetings
Educators can create a virtual classroom by setting up persistent meeting rooms for specific subjects, audiences, or
presenters. You can automatically send participant invitations and reminders by e-mail. Invitees simply click a link
to join the class or meeting in session (Figure 15).
Figure 15 Creating a meeting and sending invitations
With Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Training, you can create courses, curriculums, and training catalogs and schedule
online classes to take place in a virtual classroom. A virtual classroom is a special kind of Connect Pro meeting
room configured for online teaching and student interaction (Figure 22).
You can invite and register class participants; track participant statistics; generate detailed reports on courses,
learners, and test results; and establish automated certification criteria.
Figure 22 Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro virtual classroom
Create training courses and curriculums
A course contains any item from the Content library. A course is associated with a given set of enrolled learners,
and usage tracking is available for each learner. The course can be delivered and administered independently or as
part of a curriculum. When you use courses, scores can be captured for AICC-conformant objects and you may
enforce the number of attempts users have to complete the course. Courses also contain resume functionality so
users can view half a course, close the course, and then start it again later at the spot where they left off.
A curriculum is a group of courses, meetings, or classes that move students along a particular learning path. A
curriculum consists primarily of Connect Pro Training courses but may include other items, such as live training
sessions. With curriculums, you can assign prerequisites, test-outs, and completion requirements to enforce a
specific learning path. As with courses, you can generate reports to track the progress of the enrollees as they movethrough the curriculum to ensure that they meet the learning objectives.