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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First post from a newbie!

Good afternoon to everyone, I was recommended to this site by my COLF tutor as a place to seek and share anything related to onine training.

I've been directly involved in every aspect of training for almost 40 years and just as I was beginning to thi

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Best Practice on Viewing a Recording during a Live Online Session

Hi All.

I have a session coming up where our guest speaker is not able to join us live, but instead we will have to use a recording of a presentation made a few hours earlier. Like many of us here, I would normally advocate watching the recording in a

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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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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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Does video increase trust and engagement?

There are some great stats in this research from Zoom.

According to their research of over 700 Zoom users, 91% say there is more engagement if they turn their webcam on.

You can read more here:

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2018/05/02/does-video-com

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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