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
.