At IU, what is the Connect Meeting Service?
Indiana University offers Connect Meeting to faculty and staff for web collaboration in administrative meetings and academic classes. Web collaboration (also called data collaboration or web conferencing) provides a virtual meeting/classroom environment for sharing presentations, images, and desktop applications with remote participants. With Connect Meeting, you can also take advantage of features including a digital whiteboard, text chat, polling, and audio/video broadcasting. To attend your web meeting, participants need only a web browser with the Flash plug-in (most computers have this already) and a broadband Internet connection.
Note: Connect Meeting is distributed by Adobe. When IU originally purchased the software, it was named Breeze and owned by Macromedia. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and soon after changed the name of the product to Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. You're likely to hear it called Breeze and Connect interchangeably.
Connect works as follows:
- A host with a Connect Meeting account logs in and creates a
meeting room. The meeting room has a unique URL created by the host,
who then communicates the URL to those attending the meeting. Invitees
do not need a Connect Meeting account to log into the meeting;
invitees (presenters and participants) can log in as
guest.
- The host can designate invitees as either presenters (those who
give presentations or share items such as documents, tables, or
images) or participants (those who simply attend the meeting and do
not present or manipulate content). Upon login, you will see a
Flash-based interface in your browser containing "pods" (miniature
windows within the Connect Meeting interface) where content appears.
- Those in the meeting see the presentation or the shared resource at the center of the meeting and can interact at various levels, from simple text chatting to controlling the presentation, depending on the level of access granted by the host.
For more, see Indiana University's Connect Meeting Service.
Last modified on November 09, 2009.
