Web Conferencing
Web conferencing and online meetings allow people to replace face-to-face
meetings with online virtual meetings, cutting down on travel time and
making real-time collaborative sessions with dispersed participants
possible. Some of the most commonly used products for this are WebEx,
Adobe Connect, Go-To-Meeting and many others.
The School of Medicine has recently completed a pilot test of Adobe Connect and is exploring the best and fastest way to make it available to the Dean's office and SMP-move community. IRT is making plans to make this technology readily available and to provide full support to help ensure you are able to use it effectively. Licensing and pricing details are still being worked out. More information will be posted here as it becomes available.
Features of online meetings with Adobe Connect:
- Up to 200 attendees in any meeting.
- Video conferencing. Multiple simultaneous video cameras can be supported. Video is optional if participants don't have a webcam or don't wish to use one.
- Audio/Telephone for audio. Standard audio telephone conferencing or VOIP.
- "Always On" meeting rooms with a stable URL. Invite participants by emailing them the URL.
- Desktop sharing. All participants can share their desktop or an individual window or application.
- Review power-point presentations and annotate with notes as the meeting progresses.
- Use Whiteboard space to brain-storm and collaboratively delevop ideas
- File upload and sharing of files up to 102Mb.
- Embedded Chat for private or group chat
- Works in any browser with the Flash Player installed (Macintosh or Windows).
- Meeting host can manage attendees, accept and deny access, mute and un-mute VOIP phones for each participant.
- Record meetings for repeat viewings or partipants unable to be present in real-time
- All meetings are secure via SSL to ensure privacy (ie. your meeting won't be on YouTube).
