The document provides instructions for participating in an Adobe Connect webinar, including checking your system connection beforehand, signing in as a guest, and how the host can enable participants' audio and ability to share screens. It notes that participants will initially only be able to type in the chat box until given permission by the host to speak, and that microphones must be muted after speaking to avoid echoes with multiple people talking.

1. Attending a
webinar as a
participant in
Adobe Connect
By Fiona Beal

2. Check your system first!
If it is your first time in Adobe please do the following first:
If you have never attended an Adobe Connect meeting before
then test your connection:
http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/s
upport/meeting_test.htm
This is very important – do it before the time as it could take
several minutes.
If you would like to get a quick overview you could click here.
http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview

3. This should be what you see
after your check

4. Open the link to the webinar
Open the link that is given just under the
Webinars. This link takes you to the actual
meeting.
Sign in as a guest with your name and enter the
room.
See you there but read on…..

5. How Adobe Connect works
Once you are in you automatically go in as a
participant with no rights at all. Your name
appears. You can’t hear anyone or do anything
except type in the chat box with whoever is
there. The host is the one who gives you rights
to do other things. I will mostly be your host.

6. This is what you’ll see
when you enter the
meeting
1
You might be able to hear
something as I see the
audio part is green!.
Your name appears 2
here and you can
type in the chat.
3

7. When the host enters
Once I am in as host I can enable your audio
(and video if we were going to use that) so that
you can speak. I can also give you the right to
share a document with Screenshare. (By the
way, because of our internet bandwidth
problem in South Africa we won’t be using
video.)

8. When I click on your name
this screen comes up and I
enable all these things if
necessary.

9. Speaking problems!
HOWEVER For some reason Adobe has an echo
with more than two people, so generally we
have to talk one at a time by handing over the
microphone. It is a hassle, I know! You will
mostly not say anything until question time, but
you can ask questions via the chat box.

10. When the time
comes for you to
speak…
When you click on
microphone after this this
block will open. Click on
‘allow’.

11. Handing over the microphone
When you are finished talking you say ‘Handing
over the microphone to…’ and you mute your
microphone. This just makes it better to listen to
– but is awkward. Every action has to be
verbalised.

12. Click here to mute your
microphone AFER you have
said ‘Handing over to…”

13. This is what you’ll see. Click on
‘Mute my microphone’. That is
how it goes on throughout the
conversation.

14. That’s enough for now
Well, hopefully that’s enough for now. See you
at the webinar!