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July 13, 2020
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Advanced Breakout Room Functions & Event Registration

  • July 13, 2020
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Hi all,

 

I'm setting up Adobe Connect rooms for some upcoming workshops which will rely heavily on Breakout Sessions. The workshops are set up in such a way that participants will answer custom registration questions in advance so that organizers can place similar participants into their future Breakout Groups, based on their registration responses. The workshop will also use the Breakout Group sessions repeatedly, such that participants will complete an exercise in their groups, regroup in the main meeting room and watch more of the presentation, and then later return to their groups for the second exercise, and so on. Participants will complete exercises in their Breakoup Groups around 5 times total. My questions about this function are:

 

- Can you assign registrants to specific Breakout Rooms in advance of the meeting actually starting? Or would we have to wait until the day of for the meeting to go live, and then assign people to their groups as they enter the room? The workshops will have close to 100 participants, so I am concerned about the Hosts having to focus on assigning individuals to their breakout sessions a few minutes before beginning the meeting, especially if some participants arrive late. 

 

- Can the host update the Breakout Rooms in between exercises while the main meeting is live? For example, if the participants have completed Exercise #1 in their breakout groups and have returned to the main meeting room (and will remain there for 20 minutes until the next exercise), can one of the Hosts update the Breakout Room layouts to set up the polls, share pod, etc. for Exercise #2 if the meeting itself is not in the "Breakout Room" mode? How would the host go about subtly preparing the rooms for the next exercise?

 

- Another quick question I have relates to Event Registration: can you control who receives Event-related emails such as registration approval? I have set up the appropriate email addresses under the "Reply To:" field under the Customization menu under "Email Options" so that registrant replies are redirected to the correct email inbox. However, as the Event Creator, I am the one who receives all of the Adobe notification emails about people registering, requesting registration approval, etc. I know I can set up auto-forwards through my email provider so that my colleagues receive these notifications, but I'm just wondering if there is a setting in Adobe Connect itself that lets us control this.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!!

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    zweigle@clarix.com
    Participating Frequently
    July 13, 2020

    These are great questions and while users cannot be 'pre-assigned' to break-out rooms within an Adobe Connect meeting before they join, there are some ways of minimizing the effort required for properly grouping and distributing the participants based on pre-answered questions.

     

    Feel free to contact me directly if you would like to discuss:

    Walter Zweigle 585-899-5300 x156 Zweigle@clarix.com 

     

    Walter Zweigle - Sales Account Manager | Clarix Technologies Inc. | 585-899-5300 x156 | zweigle@clarix.comAdobe Connect | Adobe Learning Manager | Adobe Acrobat Sign