2022 State of Virtual Training

Hi all,

Cindy Huggett's brilliant annual virtual training research has been released! You can read about it here and look at the infographic here. 

A couple of highlights:

1. Average design time for an hour of delivery is 12.5 hours. Are you getting th

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Would you rather activity in a hybrid world

Hi fellow lighbulbers

I am runnig a hybrid event (I know - I know) and the icebreaker is a "would you rather" where the in person group are going to be physically 'lining up'.  I am coming up with a blank on how to include the virtual attendees in th

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Teams: Tips for sharing screen?

Hi, 

I'm due to deliver a presentation in Teams that involves a PowerPoint presentation and a demo in the software. It seems fairly straight forward to share the screen but I'm curious if anyone has any best practice or tips for being able to view th

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Zoom pin and spotlight?

Hello,

I've been using the pin and spotlight options in a Zoom room today, testing it just on my own. I really can't see the difference and don't understand when I might use one over the other.

If anyone has any explanation or advice on how I can see t

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Can anyone here offer wider training on Teams?

Hi All.

Like many people in this forum, helping people to design and deliver better live online events is at the core of what I do. But I have one client who is looking for someone to run a 1 hour webinar on the wider aspects of Microsoft Teams and ho

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Best Kit for Hybrid Events

Hi All.

What do you advise in terms of hardware for effective hybrid events, i.e. where some people are in the conference room and some online? I'm guessing the tech has moved on a lot in the light of the pandemic. Any tips?

Thanks

Paul

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New platform integrations and apps!

The move to virtual classrooms and digital learning and working as a whole has meant that a lot of companies are really investing development time into platforms, applications and integrations. 

Rather than a new post every time I see something inter

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New Zoom whiteboard

Take a look at the new Zoom whiteboard! 

https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-whiteboard/

What are you looking forward to?

And if you aren't using Zoom, what do you do instead?

 

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Engagement fails!

Hi everyone,

Mike and I thought that our next podcast could be all about the engagement fails we've seen or experienced recently!

We were just chatting about a friend's four-hour virtual classroom this week that included:

• A boring 20+ minute ice bre

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Zoom link opening in browser, not app

Hi!

 

We have some participants who have the app; however, when they click on the join link, it automatically opens in the browser. Any ideas why this happens and how I can fix it?

The issue is that there are fewer amenities using the browser. Partic

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Virtual training pet peeves?

When Adobe Connect ran a poll asking “What is your biggest pet peeve as a virtual trainer?” the results came in as:

• Distracted audience (42%)
• Participants joining late (18%)
• Forgetting to mute/unmute (17%)
• Other (23%)

I added my vote to ‘Other’ by

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New Adobe Connect apps!

Adobe Connect has been having all sorts of updates recently, and more shiny newness are some of their apps! These are files you download, then put the whole .zip file into a share pod to extend the features that are already there. 

• On some Adobe Con

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Zoom apps and integration

Have you tried the latest Zoom features?

There are 50 new apps to pick from, ranging from survey tools to gamification. And for those of you using Mural, you can now integrate it into Zoom, has anyone tried that yet?

You can also ask Zoom to enable t

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Zoom recording settings-

Is there a way to set up a Zoom meeting so that the recording only shows the facilitator camera? We want to make a class "evergreen" and don't want to show participants; I don't know if this is possible but appreciate your thoughts!! Thank you!

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Article: 'Best Practices for Reducing Zoom Fatigue'

I'm sure this community won't be surprised by the findings of this recent research, reported in I/O At Work 

Where it may be useful is when discussing and scoping out a virtual programme with stakeholders and clients.

For example, I'll be sending it to

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Zoom emoticons and reactions now together

If you've kept up to date with your Zoom desktop application, you'll know that the emoticons (green tick/check, red X, hand up etc) have moved! 

Instead of being on the participant panel, they've now moved to the bottom of the Zoom application, where

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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

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Nightmare Adobe Connect Sessions for the last two days.... any ideas

Can anyone help? I have been producing for a client and this was the scenario today and yesterday: Adobe 11, 16 participants all with webcams on and all in via the App in standard view. I am in the App via Chrome. Adobe crashed a total of 16 times, 1

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Missing Zoom Recording

I recorded a meeting in the cloud and it's missing- no sign of it in the recordings tab. Any idea what may have happened or where it could be?

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