When hosting a meeting in Adobe Connect, you will be presented with numerous interface options for setting preferences for the meeting, organizing the layout of the meeting screen, and interacting with your participants and other attendees. This guide will describe a few of the most important interface components.

• The top menu bar of any meeting you host will have four main drop-down menus: , , , and .
• Via the  menu, you can record the meeting, switch to Prepare Mode (where you can adjust your layout without your changes being visible to attendees), and enable a Presenter Only area (for private notes, etc.). This menu is also where you set global preferences for the meeting and set up your audio.
• In the  menu, you can create new meeting layouts or manage existing ones.
• The  menu allows you to add any available pod to the layout and adjust the pods you already have present.
• In the  menu, you can enable/disable microphone rights for participants, or switch to Single Speaker Mode.
• In the top right of each pod, there is a  button that opens a contextual menu for modifying/interacting with that pod.
• The Attendees Pod has three different view modes available: the Attendee View () for sorting attendees by role, the Breakout Room View () for creating breakout rooms, and the Attendee Status View () to view current attendee status.
• The Chat pod allows you to communicate with all attendees via text. If you want to chat with a particular attendee, click on their name in the Attendees pod and click .

The Discussion default meeting layout includes a module (called a “pod”) known as the Poll pod. The Poll pod lets you pose questions to and collect responses from your attendees. You can also freely add this pod to other layouts.

1. To add a Poll pod to your meeting, click the  button at the top, select the  menu, and click .
2. Select a poll type. You can click the drop-down to set it to , , or .
3. Enter the prompt in the  field.
4. If you’re posing a Multiple Choice or Multiple Answers poll, enter possible answers in the  field (one per line).
5. Your attendees will not be able to view or respond to the poll until you open it up to them. You can keep it hidden until it’s needed. Once you’re ready for your participants to answer, click the  button.
6. Presenters will be able to see the tallied results. If desired, you can share these results with the participants.

All default meeting layouts include a module (called a “pod”) known as the Attendees pod. The Attendees pod lists all of the hosts, presenters, and participants in a meeting and allows you to manage your attendees.

• The Attendees pod has three view options: the Attendee View (), the Breakout Room View (), and the Attendee Status View ().
• The Attendee View separates attendees by role into Hosts, Presenters, and Participants.
• The Breakout Room View allows you to create breakout rooms. Click the  button to create more breakout rooms, click the  button to auto-assign participants to breakout rooms, or click individual attendees to assign them to specific breakout rooms.
• The Attendee Status View will sort attendees by their current status (Raised Hand, Agree, Disagree, Stepped Away, etc.).
• Clicking the  button in the upper-right of the pod allows you to broadcast messages, change attendee roles, remove attendees, and change other preferences for the Attendees pod.