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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Adobe Connect and stagelights

Hi all,

 

Regarding stagelights in Adobe Connect, after the recent update. I've found that participants can actually start and stop stagelights in breakout rooms. I'm looking for stagelights that only allow the hosts to touch them. Has anyone here foun

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Hi!

Hi! I've produced on seeral platforms but am relativeky new to Zoom. I'm sure I'll be asking some dumb questions, and wanted to thank you in advance for being patient with a newby :-)

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How do you decide how long a virtual classroom session should be?

Hi all,

I'm just doing some thinking around the length of virtual classroom (not webinar) sessions. Often they can be an hour, 90 minutes or more, but obviously can be 30 minutes or shorter, a couple of hours or even all day.

How do you decide how lo

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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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Welcome!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the new open discussion forum, all about webinars, virtual classrooms and learning.

We encourage you to click the Add Discussion button to start discussions, add questions, share successes and learning points! If you can't

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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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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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If it can go wrong, it will go wrong!

Hello all.

What are some of the most common issues that go 'wrong' in a webinar or virtual classroom session?

I have things like:
- People can't login
- People can't hear

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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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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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