Adobe Connect Community

Adobe Connect (full name Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional, also formerly Macromedia Breeze Meeting) is a collaboration tool that includes video conferencing, application sharing, live polling, chat, whiteboards, and presentations. Live, synchronous interactions with small or large groups take place right on your desktop.

Using Adobe Connect, you and other meeting attendees can join a live, on-line meeting from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a browser, Flash Player plug-in, and an Internet connection. A meeting can have as few as two or as many as several hundred attendees.

About Meeting Rooms
A meeting room is an online application that you join by navigating to a specific URL with a browser. Once in a meeting, you can see and hear various types of media, such as a live video broadcast of the Presenter, a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, or a video. In real time, Presenters can demonstrate software on the computer or use a whiteboard to draw or annotate images or text.

An Adobe Connect meeting room exists before a scheduled meeting time and continues to exist after the scheduled meeting time has passed. A meeting room can be used over and over. The Host can leave the meeting room open or closed between scheduled meetings. If a meeting room is open between meetings, you can enter the room at any time to view content or meet with other group members.

Uses of Adobe Connect
The Adobe Connect service has been deployed by Information Technology Services to meet the needs of Penn State faculty and staff who would like to use desktop video conferencing for:

• Synchronous group meetings
• Resident and blended course activities
• Training sessions