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Learning Adobe Connect 9

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Learning Adobe Connect 9

Overview of this book

Modern world organizations require effective collaboration in order to improve productivity. Conferencing tools enable users to increase their productivity and improve communication with their functionalities that include interactive experiences supported by multiple features. One of the most advanced conferencing tools and the market leader is Adobe Connect. It is a great tool that will help you organize and present your content in the most efficient manner possible while capturing the audience with rich and engaging presentations."Learning Adobe Connect 9" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises that will help you take advantage of the real power that is behind Adobe Connect."Learning Adobe Connect 9" will take you on the journey through the magical world of Adobe Connect features. By reading this book, you will be able to master the most important features of Adobe Connect quickly. This book will guide you from the basic Connect functionalities through the complex features that are offered by the application's user friendly interface. The easy-to-understand structure of this book will help you learn and remember the content with straight to the point examples combined with step-by-step guides that will help you use all of the Connect features with confidence. By the end of this book, you will be full of confidence to start your next web conference.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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14. Managing Text Messages and Questions
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Index

Managing audio within meetings

By default, in the meeting room, only hosts and presenters can broadcast audio by using their microphones. However, hosts can enable participants to broadcast audio by checking the Enable microphone rights for participants checkbox in the Audio menu. Hosts can also enable audio for specific participants by selecting one or more of the participants in the attendees pod and choose any of the options from the pop-up menu such as Enable Audio, Make Host, or Make Presenter, as shown in the following screenshots:

Managing audio within meetings

After selecting one of these options, a microphone icon will appear next to the attendee name, as shown in the following screenshot:

Managing audio within meetings

By using the same pop-up menu, hosts can later disable audio for selected attendees.

A Connect meeting room also provides you with an option to avoid overlapping conversations by selecting the Enable Single Speaker Mode option from the Audio menu.

When you select this option, an asterisk will appear next to the microphone button...