Setting Up Audio and Video

In a meeting, your broadcast capabilities depend upon your attendee role. Hosts control participant access to broadcast capabilities. To learn more about permissions, see Roles and Permissions under Using Adobe Connect.

Configuring Audio
( View the tutorial.)
In the Adobe Connect meeting room:

  1. From the “Meeting” menu at the top of the window, select "Manage My Settings>Audio Setup Wizard."
  2. Follow the directions on the screen.
  3. Note: If any of the Wizard tests fail, you will need to troubleshoot your microphone and speakers. Please be aware that the Wizard will allow you to continue even if your computer fails a test.

Configuring Video
(View the tutorial.)
In the Adobe Connect meeting room:

  1. From the “Meeting” menu at the top of the window, choose "Manage My Settings" > “Select Camera."
  2. A Settings window opens, with the "Camera" tab selected
  3. Click on the camera icon and select your camera from the drop-down list. You may see a window pop up on the screen asking you to allow your video to be broadcast – click “Allow.” This window appears only once during a meeting no matter how many times you turn off and on your camera.
  4. Note: If no camera is connected, a “No Camera Found” message appears instead of the Camera drop-down list. If you do have a camera connected but you get a "No Camera Found" message, check to be sure your camera is turned on and not being used by another application.
  5. Click "Close."

Audio Captioning (Optional)
Adobe has an extension that allows for real-time audio captioning for greater accessibility. It is available as a free download from Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&lo... (you may have to create a user name and password if you are not already registered with Adobe). Note that in order for a meeting to be captioned using the extension, the meeting creator or Host must set up a captioning service ahead of time. Captioning companies do charge a fee for their services.

Instructions for using the captioning extension, including tips for captioning services, can be found at http://www.adobe.com/education/resources/k12/resourcecenters/communicati...

For general accessibility information, see the Adobe Connect website at http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/breeze/

Special Uses
Some school districts with deaf and hearing impaired students are using Adobe Connect to bring a "signer" right to a deaf/hearing impaired person's desktop in the face-to-face classroom. The person skilled at signing is in a central office -- not even necessarily in the same building. They enter a virtual meeting room with the face-to-face instructor and student. As the instructor broadcasts his live audio through the virtual meeting room using a small wireless microphone pinned to his shirt, the signer listens and then broadcasts signed video back to the same meeting room. The student is sitting in the classroom with a laptop computer, watching the instructor face-to-face and the signer on the computer. Using this technology in a very non-intrusive way, other students in the room don't even realize that there is a hearing impaired person in the room and they aren't distracted by a person sitting in the front of the room signing.

More Audio/Video
For more information about broadcasting audio and video, see Camera and Voice Pod: Broadcasting Audio and Video under Using Adobe Connect.