Using the Adobe Connect Tool

1. Log into Blackboard and click on your course. http://online.fiu.edu/

2. Click on the Adobe Connect link under “Course Tools” on the left side Course Menu.

3. Click on the test your computer link to conduct the Adobe Connect connection test.

*This test must be conducted once on the computer you are using to access the meeting. Please refrain from using Chrome with Adobe Connect.

4. Click on the link Adobe Connect Meetings

5. Enter your Blackboard login credentials

6. Click on the Create Meeting link to create new meeting.

7. You must input the name of your Adobe Connect meeting in the Name field. Your Adobe Connect meeting name must be unique. There can’t be any duplicate meeting names.

*The name field and the date and time must be completed to successfully create a meeting.

8. I recommend leaving the description field blank. The description of your meeting is not displayed on the Adobe Connect tool page. Only the name of the meeting and the start date and time are visible on the Adobe Connect tool page.

9. Please input a custom URL for your Adobe Connect meeting if you are anticipating guest attending. By default Adobe Connect creates a unique URL to your meetings. Students do not need the URL for your meetings because they are accessing your meetings through Blackboard. The Adobe Connect tool page in Blackboard simply list the name of all meetings the students have access too. The student would simply click on the name of the meeting to enter it. However, your guest (President Obama, Warren Buffett, and Mayor of Miami) can’t access your meeting through Blackboard and must obtain the URL to enter. By customizing your URL you can create a friendly one like “connect.fiu.edu/chapter1” versus “connect.fiu.edu/r86x486zq3e”.

10. The Access Type only applies to guest (President Obama, Warren Buffett, Mayor of Miami) accessing your meetings. You may prefer to change the access type for your Adobe Connect meetings if you anticipate guest attending your meeting. Do not use the 1st option Private, which prevents all guest from entering your meeting. By default Adobe Connect selects the 2nd option Protected. Protected access types requires guest to obtain permission from the professor prior to gaining access to the meeting. Public access type allows guest to access the meeting without requesting permission.

11. You must input a meeting start and end date/time.

12. Select meeting participants. There are 2 boxes in section 3 of the meeting wizard where you

select student roles for your meetings. The box on the left are the available students for your course. The box on the right are the selected students for your meetings. Only students that have been selected as meeting participants will see the meeting listed on their Adobe Connect tool page. Students that have been selected as meeting participants can access the meeting and recordings conducted in that meeting.

13. There are 3 roles students are assigned in your Adobe Connect meetings. The role that is visible between the boxes is the role students would be assigned when you move them over to the box on the right. You must click the drop down arrow to change the role you would like to the student to have prior to moving their names over to the box on the right.

14. You can use the single right arrow or the double right arrow to bring over individuals or remove them from your meetings.

15. If you click submit, only the students on the right side of the screen will have access to Chapter 4 Review’s meeting.

16. I will now open up Internet Explorer and access that meeting as a student. First step is to click on my professor’s course.

17. On the left side of the screen please click on the Adobe Connect tool.

18. On the instruction page, test the computer if this is your first time or click on the Adobe Connect

link to access the Adobe Connect tool page.

19. Provide your credentials.

20. On the Adobe Connect tool page, simply click on the name of the meeting to enter the meeting.

21. As you can see the professor is not in the meeting and there is no security concern. I’m a student with access to the meeting and there’s little I can do while assigned the participant role.

22. To end a meeting the professor should enter the Adobe Connect meeting, click on meeting at the top left and select end meeting. Now, anyone who is not assigned a host role and is attempting to enter the meeting would have to wait until the professor enters the meeting.

23. Example of a student attempting to enter a meeting that was previously ended by a professor.

24. On the Adobe Connect tool page, you can hover over any of your meetings and an action menu appears.

25. Click on the action menu to edit your meetings, view meeting summary, recordings, attendance or sessions.

26. The meeting wizard re-appears and you can change the name of the meeting. You cannot change the custom URL and you cannot change the access type. All other fields on the meeting wizard can be edited.

* Adobe Connect allows me to select a different access type, but when I click submit my changes are not saved.

27. When editing your meetings you can remove students from you meetings or add students to the

meeting. You may also change the role that students have in your meeting.

28. Remember, on the Adobe Connect tool page you would simply click the name of the meeting to enter that particular meeting.

29. To record an Adobe Connect meeting. Simply, enter the Adobe Connect meeting and click on the meeting option at the top left corner of your screen and go down to the 5th option which says record meeting.

30. You start the recording and a black box appears at the top right corner of the screen notifying everybody in the meeting that this is being recorded.

31. The box will stay there for approximately 5 seconds or you can click the X at the top right corner of that box to make it disappear.

32. The red dot remains to remind you that the meeting is being recorded. You can always click on

the red dot and then stop the recording. Please repeat these steps to conduct another recording.

* You can conduct as many recordings as you like in your Adobe Connect meetings.

33. To access the recordings, you will hover over your meeting, click on the action menu and then

select meeting recordings. All recordings conducted in that meeting will be visible. You will then simply click on the name of the recording to view it.

34. Next, click on the name of the recording to view it.

35. On the recording page click the My Meetings option to go back to the Adobe Connect tool page.

36. Click on the action menu once again to view meeting summaries.

37. On the meeting attendance page. All attendees for your Adobe Connect meetings are listed. The date and time that they entered and exited the meeting.

38. You can also click on the action menu to view your meeting sessions.

* And once again click the My Meetings option to go back to the Adobe Connect tool page.

If you encounter any technical difficulties or have any questions on using the Adobe Connect tool please contact FIU Online Support Services.