Every Adobe Connect meeting has three available user roles: Hosts, Presenters, and Participants. Hosts have the most privileges. Presenters share many of the host’s privileges. Participants have very few privileges, though hosts and presenters can allow them access to speak and use webcams.

• Presenters and Hosts can work in a “Presenter only area.” This is a private area that participants do not have access to. To access this view, click the  tab, and click .
• Once this feature is enabled, the presenter can add speaking notes that will not be visible to all participants.
• Hosts determine what role others in a meeting will play. To change an attendee’s role, click the attendee’s name, and change the role in the menu that pops up.
• The host can also drag and drop the attendees from one place to another in the  pod. The host can also drag and drop multiple attendees at once.
• The presenter and host can force participants to see a presentation in .
• When the  button on the bottom right is gray (), that means that the screen is active and participants see any changes that happen in the meeting area.
• The presenter can also allow participants to navigate the slide menu on their own.
• Participants can navigate through the slides, search the slides, and read the publicly accessible notes.
• The  icon allows the presenter to access slides in any order, review slide notes, and search for content.
• Most presenters keep the navigation side bar private. 

In addition to providing options for pod selection and layout, Adobe Connect will also let you change more technical preferences for the meeting in order to adjust what your participants see and hear and limit how much bandwidth your meeting requires.

• To change preferences, open the  menu and click .
• In the  section, you can select a background image for the meeting and set whether participants can see your mouse cursor.
• In the  section, you can optimize the meeting bandwidth for your participants’ specific connection types.
• In the  and  sections, you can choose settings for your microphone and/or webcam and set your audio/video quality.
• In the  section, you can set quality and frame rates for screen sharing (e.g. low for Powerpoint presentations, high for demonstrations, etc.).

There are two pods in an Adobe Connect meeting that can prove very useful for interacting with your participants. One, the Chat pod, allows you to communicate via text to everyone in the meeting or specific participants. Another called the Q&A pod is useful for taking questions from and assigning questions to participants.

Using the Chat Pod

• 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 .
• To change the formatting of your text (size, color, etc.), use the  button in the upper-right.
• When there is a new message sent via the Chat pod, the tab at the bottom of the chat pod where the message was sent will change color to notify you.

Using the Q&A Pod

• To add the Q&A pod, click the  menu and select .
• You will see a list of questions as they’re posed by participants. You can click on this question and use the text box at the bottom to respond to it. Click the  button to send a private response to the asking participant, or click the  button to send a response to all participants.
• With a question selected, you can also click the  button to delete the question or use the  menu to assign the question to someone to answer.

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.