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Best Practice for Breakout Rooms with Guests in Teams

Hi,

Does anyone have some excellent advice or links for best practice when having to use breakout rooms in Teams with guests? I have a new challenge up my sleeve ...

So far, I have found out that participants disconnect from the chat in the main room,

Started by Susanne Plaumann in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

3 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Jul 8

Adding Interactivity to Lobby Times in Adobe Connect

Hi everyone,

In last week's Adobe Connect Office Hour, we discussed various ideas for lobby layouts. Using the new InFrame Pod for Adobe Connect, you can now add interactivity to either waiting times before a session starts or to breaks.

I offered to w

Started by Susanne Plaumann in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

3 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Jun 29

Avoiding learners having to register twice in Zoom

Hi All,

I have a question that I cannot find an answer to anywhere! Hoping someone here might have had a similar experience:

We ask our learners to register through a separate platform from Zoom. Once they register, they get the Zoom link. On the day o

Started by shanna thiel in Intermediate

1 Reply · Reply by Jo Cook May 3

"Presence" when facilitating live online

We ran a session about presence in the virtual space. These are some of the answers from the group about what presence was live online:

- holding the space

- paying attention

- being attentive

- the learning you enable

- emanating energy

- paying a

Started by Jo Cook in Delivery, Intermediate, and Advanced

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Removal of a community member due to spam

Dear Community,

It's come to our attention that someone on this site has been contacting members with a spam message. Our apologies for this. The member has been removed.

Please be aware of our code of conduct as spam messages and posts will not be

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

3 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Nov 8, 2021

Learning Guild whitepaper: virtual classroom continuous improvement

I've contributed to a Learning Guild whitepaper about how to improve virtual classrooms! You can download it here (you need a free Learning Guild account).

As I read the paper, this paragraph struck me as interesting:

Musings on the future

Sadly, I’

Started by Jo Cook in Delivery, Beginner, and Intermediate

3 Replies · Reply by James Booth Apr 15, 2021

Adobe Connect timer options

Hello,

We are having issues with "stagelights' being off- some users see one thing, some see another. I'm wondering if there is an option for an internal clock, which does not sync to the computer's clock. Any suggestions?

Thanks!!!

Shanna

Started by shanna thiel in Intermediate

2 Replies · Reply by James Booth Nov 26, 2020

Screen sharing PowerPoint in a window (Zoom and Teams)

A few people have asked about good ways to share their PowerPoint slides when facilitating in Zoom so that they can still use the chat and participant panels without them overlapping their slides.

I do this by having PowerPoint run in a window, rath

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms, Beginner, and Intermediate

15 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook May 25

Adobe Connect 11!

It's here! Adobe Connect, the latest version has been launched, and it's packed full of new features and improved underlying technology.

If you are a Connect user, or if you have found Connect to be a little clunky in the past, this upgrade is for y

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms, Beginner, and Intermediate

5 Replies · Reply by James Booth Oct 14, 2020

Design: how to decide about your interactions

It can be challenging to know what type of interaction to design into your session, and which tool to use.

We teamed up with Breeio to bring you this hand swipe advisor to aid your decision making:

Let us know what you think!

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Technology & platforms, and Beginner

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Running an (un)conference live online

In New Zealand an organisation ran an unconference (where the agenda isn't pre-set and is built by the attendees on the day). They shared a great amount of their learning about the organisation, communication and technology.

There's a big PDF (with l

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

1 Reply · Reply by Jo Cook Aug 11, 2020

What do you do after a live online session?

I've just finished a learning webinar with about 60 people and, quite frankly, I feel pumped!

There was loads of interaction and conversation and great feedback on their learning points. I feel that I connected with the group as a whole and now it's

Started by Jo Cook in Delivery, Beginner, and Intermediate

6 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Aug 3, 2020

Zoom - screen setup

Hi all,

A lot of people are using Zoom for meetings and learning, and sometimes struggling to share their screen as well as see the participants and chat panel.

This isn't the setup I use, but it's a great option if you have some kind of second scre

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms, Beginner, and Intermediate

2 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Jun 25, 2020

OLX – Rapidly put your learning online – MOOC from LearningPool

Hi everyone,

There is a new, free MOOC (massive open online course) all about rapidly putting your learning online. It's great for the time we are currently in with Covid-19 changing our learning and working practices, but it's also been designed to

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

2 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Apr 7, 2020

REAL learning in a virtual classroom? Of course it’s possible!

March 2020 has marked a sea change of how organisations and education have met, communicated, presented and taught/trained/facilitated. The lock down/ advice to stay at home, due to the risk of infection from Coronavirus, has meant live online platfo

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

2 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Aug 7, 2020

Curated resources to help with your live online learning

This curated list was first created in April 2020 to help the huge amount of facilitators and designers that were shifting to live online solutions at the time.

As we create new free content it is included on this list and kept up to date to help con

Started by Michael Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

5 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Aug 3, 2020

Change of mindset: will online work and learning become the new normal?

In light of recent events around the Cornonovirus, we've seen a lot more people asking about working from home, how to manage that, and of course how to deliver training live online.

I wrote a blog about this last week, you can read it here: https:/

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms, Learning, and Beginner

1 Reply · Reply by Bettie Tibbles Mar 9, 2020

Reducing background noise on a call - the Krisp app

Hi all,

I've just seen this on Twitter (via Mike Taylor) and it looks really interesting:

https://krisp.ai/

It's an application to reduce background noise on your call... but also on the call from the other end.

Definitely one to try - let us know

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms, Intermediate, and Advanced

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Engagement in webinars and virtual classrooms

Definitions

There is a distinction between a webinar and a virtual classroom. A webinar is a “web seminar” – it’s live online, with lots of people. It can be sales, marketing, training and all sorts.

Let’s contrast this to a virtual classroom. There’

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Beginner

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Virtual Facilitation Observation Form

Hi all,

Cindy Huggett has shared this form you can download for observing the virtual session of other people. You could also use it as a checklist or starting point for yourself too :D

https://www.cindyhuggett.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Virtual-

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Beginner

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Intermediate (33)

Best Practice for Breakout Rooms with Guests in Teams

Adding Interactivity to Lobby Times in Adobe Connect

Avoiding learners having to register twice in Zoom

"Presence" when facilitating live online

Removal of a community member due to spam

Learning Guild whitepaper: virtual classroom continuous improvement

Adobe Connect timer options

Screen sharing PowerPoint in a window (Zoom and Teams)

Adobe Connect 11!

Design: how to decide about your interactions

Running an (un)conference live online

What do you do after a live online session?

Zoom - screen setup

OLX – Rapidly put your learning online – MOOC from LearningPool

REAL learning in a virtual classroom? Of course it’s possible!

Curated resources to help with your live online learning

Change of mindset: will online work and learning become the new normal?

Reducing background noise on a call - the Krisp app

Engagement in webinars and virtual classrooms

Virtual Facilitation Observation Form

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Curated resources to help with your live online learning

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What can drive you crazy when on a webinar!?!?

Does virtual reduce creativity? Research link.

Coming soon to a computer near you... Adobe Connect 12

Adding Interactivity to Lobby Times in Adobe Connect

Best Practice on Viewing a Recording during a Live Online Session

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Webinars and events with Jo

The Lightbulb Moment Podcast

The Lightbulb Moment blog

Course hubs for virtual classroom training resources