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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How much verbal engagement can we expect in a remote classroom?

Hi Lightbulbers -  I'd really like your opinion on the attached infographic. I'm finding that a number of trainers I talk to have what I think of as an unrealistic expectation of verbal engagement in a remote classroom. I was wondering if this might

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"Gluing the group" Cath Addis podcast discussion

Jo chatted to Lightbulber and BBC Global News Training Manager Cath Addis in our latest live online learning podcast – listen to the podcast HERE. 

In it they discuss an infographic that Cath put together, which you can download from this post, and h

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Recent changes to Zoom - impact on virtual sessions

Hi, I'm looking to hear thoughts and ideas from anyone designing for / facilitating sessions with Zoom please. Following the new version rolled out towards end of December (5.4.7) there have been some changes to the 'Non-verbal feedback' and 'Reactio

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... and one request for help! Opening wow activity?

Hi again.

Tips please!

I'm designing a flagship leadership development programme (all virtual of course) - 30 senior leaders, 2-3 sessions per week for 3-4 weeks and I'm looking for new ideas for a real WOW moment to kick things off with the whole gr

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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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Contribute to the 2021 State of Virtual Training report!

Hi everyone!!

It's time to update my State of Virtual Training report for 2021. Would you please take 5-min to answer this short (17-Q) survey?

https://bit.ly/3iixVn9

 

Would you also share it with colleagues who are doing virtual training?

 

For context,

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Creating a community via remote learning

A colleague recently sent me a clip of trainees doing an activity during a  pre-Covid  training course; a packed room with around 20 young journalists based in Delhi, in pairs, discussing a thorny editorial problem. The energy in the room was fantast

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"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

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Zoom virtual backgrounds

I love the virtual background option on zoom meetings desktop app. I found these you can download and thought i'd share: https://www.shutterstock.com/discover/free-virtual-backgrounds And this link explains how to set it up: https://www.shutterstock.

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Here's some of my favourite conversation openers. What are yours?

You know the thing...need to get people engaged as soon as they join your session.  Speaking up, using chat, sharing a little about themselves.

Heard a good one yesterday:

"What would you do if you woke up one morning and everyone else in the world had

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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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Pre- or post-course work

Just watched a great webinar by Michelle Parish from the Learning Performance Institute:  

Webinar: The End or The Blend? Using Lockdown's Lessons to Perfect your Learning Strategy (Thursday 20th May 2021 @ 13.00 BST UK Time)

 

She talked about using yo

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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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Online apps for games

I am converting a real game I used to play with trainers and facilitators into an online version but need two tools:

• A score board for up to 4 teams
• A customisable spinner to hep move their tokens around the board

Anybody used any (ad free) tools like t

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Practical session- your ideas

Hi everyone,

I need some help.

I am developing a train the trainer programme for a group of learners. We are taking a blended approach with a mix of online resources, practical activities and virtual classrooms.

I am just scoping out the final session w

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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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Adobe Connect HTML

Hi

Im an experienced Adobe producer, during past 8 weeks or so, in multiple sessions, random PowerPoint slide decks suddenly revert back to slide one? Has anyone else experienced this? Causing huge issue now in our sessions.  Adobe unable to provide a

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Asking the audience questions in webinars

In Jo's recent blog bemoaning the lack of interactivity in webinars, it shocked me to see that 'Asking the audience questions' during the webinar wasn't even an area that was measured https://lightbulbmoment.info/2020/12/10/dont-waste-your-live-onlin

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