At IU, what is Breeze Meeting?

Breeze Meeting is a web-based conferencing and collaboration service at Indiana University. Breeze is based on Adobe Connect, Adobe's name for the latest iteration of this software. When Adobe aquired Macromedia, the product line included Macromedia Breeze. Functionality is the same, and to provide continuity, the Breeze Meeting service providers chose to keep the Breeze name at IU. To use Breeze, log into the Breeze Manager.

Note: Adobe Connect is aimed at large enterprise environments, such as IU, whereas the Adobe Acrobat Connect product is intended for smaller environments. For more, see the Adobe FAQ.

Breeze Meeting allows a group of people to access a virtual "meeting room" through the web, and provides online collaboration for for sharing and interacting with content. Breeze Meeting offers different capabilities than straight video (e.g., Polycom) or phone conferencing. You can use it alone or in conjunction with either or both of them.

Breeze works as follows:

1. A host with a Breeze Meeting account logs in and creates a meeting room. The meeting room has a unique URL created by the host, who can then elect to email the URL from within the Breeze interface to those attending the meeting, or to communicate the address in ways outside the interface. Invitees do not need a Breeze Meeting account in order to log into the meeting.
   
   
2. The people invited can be designated as either presenters (those who actually 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 see a Flash-based interface in your browser containing "pods" (miniature windows within the Breeze Meeting interface) where content appears.
   
   
   • One pod is a list of logged-in participants.
   • Another pod is a community chat window for everyone in the meeting to use.
   • The largest pod displays the main presentation or shared resource, e.g., a PowerPoint presentation, a text document or image (or series of both), a live stream of the host/presenter's computer desktop.
   • The host can choose to have other pods available.
   
   
3. Those in the meeting will see the presentation or the shared resource at the center of the meeting and can interact at various levels, starting with simple text chat and ranging up to controlling or manipulating the presentation/shared resource themselves, if the host or presenter permits it and enables the higher level of access.

For more information about Breeze Meeting, see:

Also see:

• Using Breeze, how do I create and delete meetings?
• About Breeze Meeting accounts and passwords