Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that lets companies conduct online meetings, webinars, and training sessions. It’s a reliable solution that lets users share presentations and other multimedia right from your desktop—delivering multimedia rich experiences to hundreds of participants. It’s designed to recreate the learning environment of physical classrooms to define a more engaging and collaborative communication experience. The solution offers immersive virtual experiences with useful storyboarding tools and design features where you can plan, host, and track all your events.
Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that lets companies conduct online meetings, webinars, and training sessions. It’s a reliable solution that lets users share presentations and other multimedia right from your desktop—delivering multimedia rich experiences to hundreds of participants. It’s designed to recreate the learning environment of physical classrooms to define a more engaging and collaborative communication experience. The solution offers immersive virtual experiences with useful storyboarding tools and design features where you can plan, host, and track all your events.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone, On-Premise Linux |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
The ability to customize layouts and resize anything that I want.
Participants are constantly being disconnected and often my voice is too laggy for them to hear.
Ability to interact in various ways with my students in a cyber setting to make the experience as individualized and personal as possible
I like the options and the customizable layouts. I like that I can have everything uploaded and ready to go or share on the fly.
My school changed over to Chromebooks, and they do not work well with Adobe Connect. The latest updates have hurt students with lower bandwidths. There is so much lag.
This is my 4th year using Adobe Connect but my first year with Chromebooks. That was challenging enough. But the latest updates have slowed things down.
The ease of access to reporting and the robust platform that enabled customization of emails and marketing materials that were sent out to potential meeting participants
continuous audio/visual issues and a support team that was not good at communication and keeping us in the loop when there were issues being looked into
Adobe Connect created a way for us to have everything we needed, including reporting and email customization, while having the virtual programs as well. Having everything seamlessly in one system was nice.
The interactive whiteboard is nice, and breakout rooms work very well. It's also good for contacting international students that I can't call on the phone.
Screenshare is awful (slow and doesn't work all of the time). Also, the video recordings are not actually videos (it seems to be fully interactive with all of the pods) and this could be good in some situations, but it also makes the recordings glitchy. It would be good to have the option to just record it as a video so it will play on all computers and will appear exactly as it did during the meeting. And it's great that there's finally a flash-free version, but it doesn't work right when the meeting host is still using the flash version. It's also difficult to play a video during a meeting (we usually end up having to just put a link in the chat and then everyone watches it on their own). Also, it can be very unstable whether using the browser or the app. Sometimes it stops responding or kicks me out of my room and I have to reload it. If it's open in the background, such as during office hours when students can drop by, then it doesn't even warn me if it has lost connection or closed the room. Sometimes I have to try over and over for several minutes to even get into the room. It's very frustrating.
We use it for interactive lessons, and for meeting with students individually to answer their questions.
I like how you can have multiple pods up to run a classroom.
1- When using power point slides, the students slides do not stay synced with the teacher that is presenting the slides. When I am teaching a slide, I expect my students to be on the same slide as me! 2-Private chat needs to be enabled for just host/students. When private chat is enabled, it allows everyone to chat with each other instead of just the teacher and student. If a student messages the host, the host then has to select the student to type back causing the conversation to occur in 2 windows. 3- When multiple users are on camera, students should be able to choose grid view to see everyone instead of a forced view of one person and all others are very small.
I would love Adobe Connect if these issues that are occurring in our entire school were FIXED! It's frustrating that nothing has been done to resolve these issues for months now.
Using as a teacher it is great for being able to see who is in the room, raise hands, and turn on and off mics. I also like using the polls and Q&A to keep students engaged.
Adding and removing pods is really annoying. Having to hide, go back up to the top, open it again takes forever and is really annoying. Not being able to play videos in the app with sound is annoying too, you have to screen share to youtube and then play the sound out loud. Another thing I don't like is how it looks, it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2002. Another issue is that when you use a lot of videos at the same time it crashes on the i Pads. Lastly, breakout groups take forever to start, you have to click each person and add them to a breakout one by one. Wastes about 3 mins of classtime for this.
We are using it to do virtual school. It is good for engaging with studnets with the use of polls and Q&A's.
I loved the product for over 10 years, as a professional Training organization I took great pride in the "bulletproof" capabilities and innovation. I was running Breakout rooms before people even understood what they were (as an example).
In November we were "pushed" into our upgrade. (to overcome the end of Flash). It is a disaster, today I still have audio issues, users who can not join the meetings, unable to share screens and even when I share content not every user sees the same thing (resolution differences). Overall the WORST rollout and experience of any software product ever. Try to get "help" from Adobe.. Good Luck. When the products work they are fantastic, when they don't it is a total disaster. I am moving on to Teams.. losing some functionality but gaining the only thing that matters in meeting software, STABILITY.
I run a professional Training Organization, we train over 1000 students a year across dozens of companies.
I did like its features, it was easy to have a webinar with many people having everything under control
during covid it did not work properly and this was a problem for my job
the rooms of the webinar allow to have a dynamic meeting
I liked the white board and the chat, useful.
It bug a lot, we lost sound or image, it lag. Impossible with a big group (more than 5 people), I had a lot of bugs.
Nothing
Some advanced layout features for the Presenter, e.g. showing multiple "mini screens" within the overall presenter screen view.
We used Adobe Connect in a 2 day corporate training course, with 1 instructor and ~20 attendees. The software kept crashing for several attendees (including me) throughout the 2 days, which everyone found very frustrating. Through trial and error we realized the system would crash anytime there were more than 6 attendees with their video "on"; eventually we all had to turn our video off in order for it to run without glitches. It is very difficult to run and participate in a 2 day virtual course with that many attendees and not have video working. By comparison, I have used Zoom (probably the best), GoToMeeting, Google Meet, and WebEx, and despite each of those having their wrinkles, none would crash as much or give me as many issues as Adobe Connect where it seriously impacted our group's productivity.
Group video conferencing in a virtual classroom setting.
I like that multiple people can join. Has the same functions as Skype.
It can be a bit iffy. Usually there are issue with audio, video is fine. Have used in different areas with audio issues. Technical support are useless.
I haven’t realised any benefits so therefore I am keep to Skype for their services
Simplicity to log in the tool. Good User Interface
This application is really full of bugs. Every time you click on it, you have to restart because it gets stuck
Really none
Easy enough process. Short learning curve to get up and running.
When previewing and testing the presentation, we found most but not all Powerpoint animations failed. We eliminated the problem animations and kept the ones that worked. Then during our live broadcast, it was a very different story. Slide animations that worked just failed to show.
Promotional outreach program. Lead generation.
I like how Adobe Connect allows the presenter to share his or her screen, upload a document or PowerPoint, and allow audience to answer polls.
Adobe Connect has terrible connection problems. It doesn’t matter how great your internet connection is, the program skips and hearing presentations is very difficult.
Connecting with others located in other areas of the county.
Not reliable Easy to use and relatively easy to troubleshoot.
It crashes a lot and requires the audio wizard to be run regularly .
We do training for agents around the country