Features

Set up any number of individual meeting rooms and store work-in-process in each room so that teams can pick up immediately where they left off. Users define their own persistent URLs for meeting rooms, rather than using complicated system-generated URLs.

Conduct content preparation, whiteboarding, private chat, and layout customization with multiple presenters before and during meetings. A special presenter-only area allows sharing of content that cannot be seen by other participants.

Activate rich, functional "pods" as needed during meetings. Standard pods include attendee, share, note, video, file share, whiteboard, web links, poll, and Q&A pods. Organizations can create custom pods as well.

Use standard meeting room templates or adjust the meeting environment to suit your specific needs. Hosts can add, delete, move, or resize meeting "pods" as needed in seconds before meetings and in real time during meetings.

Provide single-click URL access to log-in screens for attendees inside and outside of your firewall. Hosts can manage a full range of participant meeting privileges in real time, including such aspects as roles, sharing, chatting, and submitting questions.

Within meetings, create multiple breakout rooms, each with its own private VoIP or telephone conference call. Customize rooms or use default templates and easily monitor breakout sessions, move between rooms, or broadcast messages to participants across room boundaries.

Select from hosted, on-premise, or managed service deployment options. With our managed offering, we manage an exclusive instance of Adobe Connect for your organization. With both on-premise and managed service, organizations can implement additional security controls.

Protect sensitive data and manage communication flows with robust security features. Disable undesired functionality, define which applications can be shared, and control access to meeting rooms. SSL encryption provides real-time protection during meetings, on-demand playback, and system upgrades.

Manage users with your organization's LDAP server. With on-premise and managed service deployments, the easy-to-use administration console enables you to configure LDAP server details, authentication methods, and advanced settings, such as timeouts and query page-size limits.

Manage password policies in a way that is consistent with industry best practices. Administrators can align Adobe Connect solutions with their existing security policies.

Safeguard, store, and track electronic communications to help ensure compliance with internal policies, as well as with government regulations. Enable forced recordings of all meetings, save chat transcripts, and display notices and disclaimers to all meeting participants.

Enjoy an interface that makes it easier for visually and hearing impaired individuals to participate in meetings. The UI is completely navigable by keyboard, is friendly to screen readers, and supports hot keys for important functionality. A real-time captioning extension is also available.

Leverage your existing investments in video conferencing solutions including Tandberg, Polycom, and PictureTel by integrating with video telephony devices supporting SIP/H.264. Meeting hosts can now bring live audio/video broadcast streams into Adobe Connect meeting rooms.

Use Universal Voice to integrate Adobe Connect with virtually any audio provider or teleconferencing platform for richer audio experiences and increased cost effectiveness. Advanced audio capabilities are available via premiere partners PGi and InterCall as well as Avaya, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, and MeetingOne.

Easily schedule, start, and join Adobe Connect meetings from your Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes email and calendar. Use integrated address books, availability lookup, and recurrence features for increased efficiency and productivity.

As a meeting host, see a list of invitees and their presence on Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) and Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS). Initiate chat conversations with LCS or OCS instant message users directly from within Adobe Connect.

Use extensive Adobe-provided APIs to customize Adobe Connect and integrate web communication capabilities with your organization's application network, including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, and content management systems.

Write to more than 100 Adobe Connect Server APIs to customize the user interface, add security features, or otherwise extend functionality. Use the Adobe Connect Meeting SDK to easily access the technology-agnostic XML API to write your own extensions.

Since Adobe Connect is based on ActionScript® 3.0, you can now tap into a community of over one million Flex developers to quickly build extensions to Adobe Connect core functionality.

Take advantage of support for single‐server or clustered environments, providing reliable, redundant deployment for organizations that must support thousands of concurrent users. The system has been architected to scale to support tens of thousands of registered users.

With on-premise Adobe Connect deployments, much of the network load occurs on internal systems, reducing network traffic and associated costs. In addition, Adobe Connect Edge Servers can reduce bandwidth requirements and improve delivery for groups in remote locations.

Collect usage information by minutes, rooms, training objects, storage, logins, and other parameters. Configure cost centers and apply usage charges to hosts, individuals, meetings, or any group you define.

Configure your Adobe Connect system to automatically notify system administrators when usage approaches your license threshold. Define warnings, notifications, and email alerts. Report on system usage and license capacity.

Provide rich-media collaboration in virtualized environments with support for Citrix XenApp 6. Organizations can deploy rich, engaging web conferencing software throughout the enterprise while enjoying the lower TCO and increased agility of thin-client virtualization.

Enable viewers to quickly skip to the most relevant information with automatic indexing of your recording. Deliver focused recordings by editing content and indexes, making participants anonymous, and hiding specific meeting functionality.

Store rich media content and metadata – including PowerPoint presentations, FLV, PDF, and more – in the online content library. Users can access, manage, and download content from a centralized location. Control access to confidential information with folder and security management tools.

Not everyone can make it to every meeting. Record meetings for later viewing that retain live meeting functionality, allowing viewing of the attendee list, access to downloadable content, and more.

Enable learner access, or fully conduct training, from anywhere, anytime on virtually any device, including PCs and mobile devices (iOS, Android™, and BlackBerry PlayBook).

Deliver virtual training sessions directly from your mobile device, including hosting, presenting, session administration, file sharing, and other capabilities.

Automatically generate a master event catalog listing all courses and training sessions, which can be quickly embedded into a website. Trainers can create multiple tags within a catalog, providing options to view events by date, topic or other identifiers.

Either standard or custom, email templates can be developed quickly and easily using new drag-and-drop capabilities. Email triggers can be created for specified registration groups at predefined times.

Boost participation by eliminating technical barriers. Adobe Flash Player software is already installed on virtually all Internet-connected computers, so your audience can easily access course content via Adobe Connect.

Create engaging multimedia experiences with just a few clicks in Microsoft PowerPoint, and quickly add narration, animation, interactivity, and simulations to eLearning courses using Adobe Presenter. Add interactive simulations, branching scenarios, quizzes, and more without programming using Adobe Captivate® software.

Author once and deploy across virtually any device, instead of recreating content many times to work on specific devices.  Publish training instantly to the cloud, including Adobe Captivate and Presenter content, for deployment and tracking across broadly based audiences.

Record Adobe Connect virtual classroom sessions. Download, edit, and manage course content using the fully searchable Adobe Connect content library. Choose any previously created course from the content library to teach within your virtual classroom.

Save virtual classroom layouts and content as reusable templates for individual or systemwide use. Content saved in templates becomes instantly available in new virtual classrooms created from those templates.

Directly publish SCORM and AICC compliant content to the Adobe Connect Server in order to leverage your existing learning libraries for use in Adobe Connect training courses and curricula, and make it easy to track individual and learner group activities and progress.

Leverage a backstage area and “prepare mode” to coordinate virtual classes behind the scenes, enabling multiple instructors to simultaneously update their layouts and upload new content on-the-fly without disrupting presentations in progress, helping ensure seamless execution.

Organize virtual classroom flow and content using customizable layouts. Easily select and arrange content windows for each layout, making the flow of your class easy and engaging.

With Adobe Connect, everyone in attendance can complete simulations and quizzes and interact with content at the same time while remaining inside the virtual classroom experience.

Make sure learners who missed a session don't miss out. All interactive, hands-on components — such as quizzes, simulations, and links — remain interactive even in recorded classroom sessions and meetings.

Create multiple subclasses, also known as breakout rooms. Breakout room participants can speak privately within their subgroups using VoIP or telephone audio. Hosts can monitor all breakouts, move between them, and broadcast messages to all participants across room boundaries.

Monitor engagement in real time with an engagement dashboard in virtual classrooms. A color-coded meter helps instructors track content effectiveness and learner engagement, measuring both attentiveness and interactivity.  Data can be tracked to influence and enhance future sessions.

Quickly and easily manage course or curriculum setup using robust enrollment management capabilities. Manage enrollment with automated email notifications, and optionally set approval and prerequisite processes for self-registering learners to enter courses.

Enable learners to view their assigned training and easily track their individual progress through learning paths. Curriculum managers and administrators can use prerequisites and test-outs to guide access and content selection.

Assess course effectiveness with robust reports that provide a meaningful overview of student progress. Enable authors to gauge the effectiveness of their courses through customizable reports. Slide-level and question-level feedback indicates where revisions are needed.

Leverage industry-standard security for secure content delivery and confidential result tracking. Adobe Connect Server uses the industry standards SSL and TLS to provide 128-bit encrypted channels for HTTPS and RTMPS.

Templates enable quick creation of landing pages, speaker information, registration pages, login pages and emails. Leveraging built-in Adobe CQ technology, templates and content can be customized using several rich components, including images, tables, charts, and carousels.

Either standard or custom, email templates can be developed quickly and easily using new drag-and-drop capabilities. Email triggers can be created for specified registration groups at predefined times.

To improve event discovery, automatically generate a master event catalog listing all events, which can be quickly embedded into a website. Users can create multiple tags within a catalog, providing options to view events by date, topic or other identifiers.

Prerecord content for seamless replay during a live session for a more consistent experience across viewers.

Prepare room environments once and reuse continuously, including layouts, content, video, quizzes, polls, notes, and other elements, as well as the meeting room URL itself.

Enable convenient webinar access from virtually all mobile devices, including Apple iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone, as well as Google Android™ devices and BlackBerry PlayBook.

Save time and money by automating email invitations, confirmations, reminders, and post-event communications to promote your event, keep it top of mind, and follow up with attendees.

Not everyone can make it to a scheduled webinar. Easily record meetings for later viewing. Adobe Connect recorded meetings retain the rich functionality from live webinars, allowing viewing of the attendee list, access to downloadable content, and more.

Simplify login experiences for participants, with the option of enabling them to login to an event directly by using their email addresses, eliminating password requirements.

Reach large audiences instantly and communicate your message most effectively leveraging rich meeting features, high-quality streaming video and more, leveraging Adobe Connect for Webinars for events up to 1,500 or Adobe Connect Webcast scaling up to tens of thousands.

Monitor engagement in real time with an engagement dashboard. A color-coded meter helps event hosts track content effectiveness. Critical information can be tracked to influence and enhance future events and sessions.

Integrate social media with live Twitter streams during your event, enabling participants to follow discussions related to the event or other topics in real time, directly from within the event environment.

Manage a range of participant privileges in real time including roles, sharing, chatting, and more. Conduct behind‐the‐scenes collaboration with other presenters before and during the event using a special presenter‐only area that cannot be seen by other webinar participants.

Share a variety of content types including animated presentations, images, audio, video, and more. Because anyone in your meeting is already using Adobe Flash Player, attendees can view any content via Adobe Connect without additional plug-ins.

Conduct polls, answer questions, and communicate complex ideas using images, animations, notes, whiteboards, and video. Initiate chat-based question-and-answer sessions, with complete control over the question queue, visibility, and question delegation.

Brand your event by customizing the look and feel of your webinar. Save layouts and content as reusable templates for your own use, or share them systemwide. Create custom interactive applications using Adobe's Collaboration Builder Software Development Kit (SDK).

Use Universal Voice to integrate Adobe Connect with virtually any audio provider or teleconferencing platform for richer audio experiences and increased cost effectiveness. Advanced audio capabilities are available via premiere partners PGi and InterCall as well as Avaya, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, and MeetingOne.

Evaluate and refine promotional tactics with robust campaign tracking capabilities that enable you to identify channels that produce the highest traffic, as well as the most qualified leads.

Detailed reporting of user engagement and attendance helps you to understand which parts of the event were effective and the ones that require improvements.

Participant profiles combine demographic information from registration questions such as name, email, etc., with the behavioral information from event participation such as poll responses, engagement level and questions asked, for more effective follow-ups and lead qualification.

Follow up with the best prospects by identifying the leads with the greatest potential and integrating with lead management and customer relationship management (CRM) systems, such as Eloqua, Marketo, and Salesforce.com for high-yield outreach.

Ensure success from the outset by using Adobe experts to assess your meeting needs, develop a customized project plan, and recommend best practices for your event. The Adobe team also works with you to create engaging, branded meeting-room layouts.

Make sure your team, especially the presenters, understands how to use the features and functions of Adobe Connect before the event. Enlist the help of the Adobe Event Services team for training and rehearsals.

Ensure that everything is working as anticipated before the event. Adobe experts test all equipment and content in advance and provide event moderation and management. Technical support is available as well for meeting participants.

Once the webinar is over, you will receive a recording of your event, participant information, and polling results that you can review and analyze to help measure the overall effectiveness of your event.