Zoom and pre-recorded content

Hi! The last platform I used had a "stimu-live" option, where much of the content was pre-recorded. But I hear that is not a best practise in Zoom. In a class I did last week, if you were the one sharing your screen and a video was playing, you could

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The state of virtual training 2020 - Cindy's latest report

Cindy Huggett does a fabulous job every year asking people about how they use virtual training, and her latest research report has been released!

Highlights include that the most popular platform used by the 870 global responses was Zoom, no shock th

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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

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Zoom Facilitator and Participant Experiences?

I have been conducting virtual classroom training for many years. I have used Adobe Connect and WebEx Training as my virtual platforms for the vast majority of that time. I am currently facing a potential platform change to Zoom. In my research and t

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Clearing chat window?

Hi everyone, I can't find a way to clear the chat window in Zoom, like I can in Adobe Connect. Does anyone know if it can be done? Thanks!

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External company email addresses not able to see whiteboard on Teams

Hi All 

I am hoping that someone will be able to give me some advice and guidance.  I am currently using Zoom to deliver online classrooms however the IT department wishes me to use Microsoft teams (understand as zoom is an additonal expense).  The ch

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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

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Online learning in Africa

I'm really interested to hear from people who have experience of delivering virtual classroom training in Africa. The bandwidth issues can be challenging when using platforms like Adobe Connect. Has anyone delivered over mobile technology?

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Live online learning and Emerald Works data

Recently I've been able to partner with Emerald Works (formerly Towards Maturity) to use some of their data to look at virtual classrooms and webinars in a different way. 

Here's the article I wrote: https://emeraldworks.com/resources/blog/l-d-resear

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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!

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Using MS Teams as platform for delivery of training and learning

Hi, we are using MS Teams as the platform for delivering IT training to users of up to 8 at a time.  Does anyone have advice on what Apps are good to use as there seems to be a wealth and it's easy to get lost down the rabbit hole so to speak once yo

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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

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