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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Zoom: screen sharing PowerPoint in a window

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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Online fatigue and how we should design our online programmes

We know that 'zoom fatigue' exists and maybe some ways individually how to avoid it:

1. Article in the National Geographic about why it happens
2. Article in the Harvard Business Review on how to avoid it

 

My question is:

Is there any research or empirical gui

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Annotation tools (workaround) on MS Teams

HI Lightbulbers !

 

I need to try and run an activity asking people to annotate a slide.  MS Teams doesnt have this (to my knowledge!) and wondered if anyone has a nifty workaround?  I am pretty good at most MS Teams Hacks - but this one is escaping me

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Pre Workshop Instructions

Morning I will be starting a series of Virtual Workshops next month on MS Teams. I would like to send a pre event message to help with the etiquettes and expectations of the attendees. Can anybody advise on the best practise in this communication or

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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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Attendee thrown out of Break-out room

Hi!

I was producing for Adobe Connect, Session 2,  and had a participant who was immediately thrown out of his breakout room. Repeatedly, though he shut down his VPN and all other apps.

He had no issues for the  first session, nor the first breakout of

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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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