Connect

Adobe Connect is a web-based communication tool that allows faculty and students to quickly and easily share presentations, desktops and other materials over the Internet using the familiar PowerPoint application and Adobe Flash format. Connect has robust collaboration tools for discussion, whiteboard and text chat.

Lectures

Faculty have used Connect to deliver lecture content through a 'live', online meeting room. Similar to the Guest Speaker activity, Lecture activities have been done in a 'one-to-many' style; the instructor has primary or 'host/presenter' control over the Connect room as they demonstrate, present, and interact with a large group of students. These kinds of activities have been done in both online and on-campus courses. For online courses, both the students and instructors log into the Connect room from their own home or office. For on-campus courses, the instructor's computer is simultaneously projected on a screen in the classroom with 'in-person' students while being "shared" online through the Connect room with remote students 'logged in'. Connect features used for lecture activities have included the Camera and Voice Pod to enable one-way audio (speaker-to-student) using VoIP; the Chat Pod for students to text questions to the speaker; the Share Pod for the instructor to upload PowerPoint files or share applications from their desktop; the Web Links Pod to showcase related web sites or resources; the Poll Pod to take quick surveys on content; and phone conferencing as an alternative to VoIP.

RIT Connect Examples:

John Kerekes, Associate Professor
Imaging Science, College of Science

Michael Kleper, Professor
Print Media, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences