Why Adobe Connect?
The most flexible, secure, extensible and feature-rich web conferencing product on the market.
Customizable Interface
Customizable - Design your own immersive experiences with custom pods, images & layouts to
personalize and brand your virtual room.
Engaging - Drive and measure audience engagement unlike any other tool. Add interactivity to
your sessions with multiple chat pods, polls, quizzes, simulations, breakout
rooms, games and more.
Powerful - Leverage Backstage & Prepare Mode to allow presenters and hosts to collaborate behind the scene during live session. Leverage limitless functionality and extensibility with custom apps.
Persistent - Create your virtual room once with the right layouts, pods and content and use it
forever.
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We use Adobe Connect for virtual meetings and instructor-led virtual classes.
It is what we use for instructor-led virtual classes, which we call VILT.
They are live classes that begin and end at specific times, and I have a live facilitator, to interact with them.
I like Adobe Connect because of its flexibility. It gives us a lot of flexibility.
It has a variety of layouts and the ability to create templates.
We do product training for specific products, and it allows us to have different classrooms.
We like how simple it is for participants to participate.
They are pretty solid, as well as good and high-end. But the good news is that it isn't like Photoshop, which has so many nuances and features. Adobe is fairly simple to use once you get the hang of it.
Adobe's products are difficult to grasp. They don't have a good explanation.
You could get an enterprise version with what is known as concurrent users, allowing you to have a large number of hosts.
The issue with the internet is that you need hosting for the named host, with a named host account. The named host must enter the meeting, open it, and remain in it until the meeting is completed.
This appears to be pointless because the named host can elevate a participant to the role of host for that meeting when someone enters the room.
We have instructors who come in to teach classes. They might teach two or three classes per month. When we start a class, the named host, one of the five, has to open that class, and he can turn it over to that the instructor to take over as the host for the rest of the meeting.
The instructor can now share screens, ask questions, make calls, and put up polls.
It appears to be constraining. I wouldn't mind a five-host license, but a floating host would be preferable. We couldn't host more than five classes at once, which would have been easier for both us and Adobe.
The person could simply use a pseudonym or, host one, host two, or host five, to login. With our situation, it is rare that we would do two at a time. We do them sequentially. We may offer two courses in a day, but not five all simultaneously.
I have been working with Adobe Connect for two years.
We have a 535 main host subscription.
So far, the stability has been good. It has functioned well for us. We haven't had any issues.
Adobe Connect is a scalable product.
Adobe has a VAR system, where they have authorized resellers and dealers.
Our first call is to the dealer, and they have been able to solve most of the issues we have experienced.
Adobe does an excellent job of providing training. They have a wealth of free knowledge that you can access, as well as free webinars. There are also events.
It was not difficult to set up.
The purchasing process is complicated. It would be beneficial if it were more simplified.
I have been using Adobe products since the 1980s when the personal computer was first introduced.
We really like it.
I would rate Adobe Connect a nine out of ten.
