Virtual classroom live Q&A - June 2nd

The next Q&A webinar will be on the 2nd of June 12:00 noon UK time.

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You can see the first Q&A we ran HERE

Drop your questions down below to make sure they get answered first in the live session.

The recording will be uploaded to Youtube

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Contribute to Cindy Huggett's research

For the last few years Cindy Huggett has conducted and shared research about virtual training. Click here to see the 2019 data. 

You can now contribute to the latest research Cindy is doing. Click here to complete the survey. 

 

On a much smaller lev

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are you having particular problems with adobe connect?

hi

are any of you experiencing particular problems with adobe connect?

We are really challenged by it at the moment - it kicks people out regularly and the voice and sound are incredibly unstable.  Sometimes people can use their mics and sometimes they

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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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Zoom security update - Article

Hi all,

As you likely know from our post about ZOOMBOMBING which has details about how we survived and some links to news articles with how Zoom were helping deal with them.

I found an article today that details how Zoom has acquired a new company to

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Online facilitation advice and help - Ask your questions here!

Hi All!

On the 12th of May Jo and I will be running our next live Q&A which will be focusing on facilitation challenges and skills.

You can see the first Q&A we ran HERE and the last one we did HERE!

You can sign up for the next session here --> Sign

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help! whiteboard content disappeared when we came out of a breakout in adobe

hi all,

we had a bit of a nightmare this morning when adobe connect broke down right at the start of our pilot programme for cybersecurity. 

by the afternoon it was back  but we had a problem with the breakout rooms.

when we came back out of them and tr

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Zoom invite links not working

Hey. I've recently upgraded to a Zoom Pro account, since I've done this, when I get an invite on zoom from someone else, I click on the Zoom meeting link, it looks like it's going to let me into the meeting and then it leaves me hanging in the 'launc

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Privacy concerns

Hi all,

 

I work in higher education and I'm seeing more and more screenshots of virtual classrooms with student's names and faces in them being shared via social media. Do you have any tips/guidance on building out a privacy strategy for the universit

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Fees for virtual workshops???

Like many of us in this group, I'm making the transition from delivering all my training workshops face-to-face.

Safe to say I'm at the 'Conscious Incompetence' stage at the moment! But at least I'm getting some practice by doing a free session for ea

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Structure for live online sessions

In this blog post I give an overview of the session structure to use in live online sessions - which applies to both webinars and virtual classroom sessions. 

 

 

A lot of this is obviously similar to a face to face session you might run, with diffe

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Adobe Connect 10 - a new look?

Does Adobe Connect look a bit dated? Well with the transition from Flash (which is a long-standing technology being phased out) to HTML 5 the interface is due an overhaul. 

From a conversation on LinkedIn, Conrad Simms shared an image of an HTML clie

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