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Getting Started with Adobe Connect

• Learn how to join a meeting as a participant or a host
• Use a pod, manage participant entry, and manage in-meeting notifications and user requests

Start meetings

If you are host, start a meeting by logging in to APAN, then go to your meeting room.   Meetings can be spontaneous or prearranged.

Note: unlike creating a meeting in MS Outlook, your APAN meeting room is persistent.  This means, you do not need to create a meeting for each individual meeting you will be having.  With APAN, you can use the same URL/meeting room over and over.

When you enter a meeting room, you can perform setup tasks for attendees. For example, accept or decline requests to join the meeting, rearrange pods, and type notes.

Enter a meeting room

1. There are a couple of ways to open your meeting. You can do one of the following:
   • Go to your APAN Community – locate the link to your connect room

OR

• From the home page in Adobe Connect Central (connect.apan.org), click My Meetings, and click Open for the desired meeting

OR

• Click the meeting URL in the email invitation that you have received. Type your Adobe Connect login and password, and then click Enter Room

OR

• Enter the meeting URL in your browser. Type your APAN login and password, and then click Enter Room.

 Notes:

1. The first time you visit a meeting room, bookmark it for quick access the next time you want to start a meeting.
2. To make it easier for attendees to get familiar with an Adobe Connect meeting room, animated tips are displayed when they enter a meeting room. The tips are role-based and differ for hosts, presenters, and participants. The tips, or guided hints, showcase the primary workflows for a role. You can click Do Not Show This Again to switch off the guided hints.  You can relaunch the in-meeting tips animation from Help > Show Tips for Adobe Connect in the meeting room.

After a user checks Don't show this again, the user can launch the tips animation from Help > Show Tips for Adobe Connect in the meeting room.