Adobe Connect Review
We use Adobe Connect to develop eLearning modules and move them over to our LMS.
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What is Adobe Connect?
Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that enables users to create presentations, online training materials, and learning modules. The product is entirely Adobe Flash-based and has several add-ons for customizing its software to suit each users’ unique needs.
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- Desktop sharing (64)8.080%
- High quality video (64)7.272%
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$50
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$130
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Forever free for up to 3 participants
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- No setup fee
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What is Adobe Connect?
Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that provides standard features like video, audio, screen-sharing, polls, chat, Q&A, and document transfers, as well as the ability for users to create presentations, online training materials, and learning modules.
The product is entirely Adobe Flash-based and has several add-ons for customizing its software to suit each users’ unique needs. Some extensions that are available include, but are not limited to, Closed Captioning support, Word Cloud (for visualizing live discussions), and MP3 player for adding music to users’ meeting rooms.
Users can create or style their own meeting room layouts which can be saved. They can also add multiple chat pods, polls, quizzes, simulations, breakout rooms, HD video, and games to make meetings and online conferencing more interactive. Additionally, Adobe Connect allows for presenters and hosts to utilize a “virtual backstage” to chat and collaborate outside of the main meeting or conference. It also allows for users to go into a “preparation mode” to make adjustments right before or during a session.
Pricing for Adobe Connect Meetings ranges from $50/mo up to $370/mo. Additional webinar capabilities through Adobe Connect Webinar ranges $140/mo to $580/mo, from a webinar with 100 participants to one with up to 1000 participants.
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Adobe Connect Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Adobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that enables users to create presentations, online training materials, and learning modules. The product is entirely Adobe Flash-based and has several add-ons for customizing its software to suit each users’ unique needs.
GoTo Meeting, Webinato, and Cisco Webex Support (discontinued) are common alternatives for Adobe Connect.
Reviewers rate Live chat and Confidential attendee list highest, with a score of 9.4.
The most common users of Adobe Connect are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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October 07, 2022
Adobe Connect Review
We use Adobe Connect to develop eLearning modules and move them over to our LMS.
- Build e-learnings.
- Voice recording.
- Graphics.
- Updated icons.
- No freezing.
- Edits slides.
October 07, 2022
Adobe Connect solved our organizations problem, and provided additional performance enhancement for all users!
We use Adobe Connect for distance education to our users who need a seamless learning and instruction experience.
- Connects Learners and Instructors.
- Provides a safe and virtual learning space.
- Options for Content Display settings and presentations.
October 06, 2022
Adobe Connect Review
We use Adobe Connect for the roll out of Technology Training in Amazon. Connect helps us give near to classroom training experience on a virtual platform.
- Breakout rooms.
- Ability to create multiple pods.
- Stability of the platform.
- Metrics & dashboards.
- Inbuilt surveys.
October 06, 2022
The way to Connect - Adobe Connect!
I've used Adobe Connect to join learning presentations and also to present on AR for various sessions.
- Great communication tools to keep people engaged.
- Stable connections.
- Great experience for both presenter and viewer.
- Better support for different media types.
October 06, 2022
Engage and Collaborate from Anywhere and Everywhere
When providing live and on-demand training sessions for our business partners, utilizing Adobe Connect has made all the difference in being able to create a virtually engaging learning environment that allows both facilitators and participants to exercise creativity during the learning and development process. Other platforms commonly used in our and other organizations work well for meetings, but Adobe Connect allows us as facilitators to create that in-person feel and have the same level of engagement and collaboration that so often seems to be absent from virtual spaces.
- Love how you can create custom layouts ahead of time and seamlessly change from one to another during a session.
- There are so many creative ways to use the whiteboard features.
- Being able to keep participants in one layout while you go into other layouts and make changes, updates, etc. has been incredibly helpful.
- The breakout rooms have endless use cases.
- I wish Adobe provided the audio directly to the customer rather than requiring an outside telecom provider be selected if you want audio beyond VOIP.
- It's nice to be able to upload PPT presentations into a share pod, but if the PPT is more than basic, I find several animations, fonts, etc. are not supported, completely changing the way the presentation comes across. This makes it impossible for me to utilize the feature most of the time and a screen share is the next best option.
October 06, 2022
Virtually In-Person!
We use Connect as our platform for training clients. This includes multiple pods, breakout rooms, and interactive note pads.
The biggest problem is sometimes the animations that were created in PowerPoint will not be viewed in Connect and will not do what was expected.
The biggest problem is sometimes the animations that were created in PowerPoint will not be viewed in Connect and will not do what was expected.
- Breakout rooms.
- Multiple pods.
- User friendly.
- Animation from imported PowerPoint.
- Multi Camera function.
October 06, 2022
Adobe Connect Review
Adobe Connect was used to facilitate virtual leadership development & coaching classes. We were in search of a more expansive & immersive virtual classroom as much of our curriculum transitioned to a virtual format during the pandemic. We were looking for a platform which had features beyond our standard Microsoft Teams meetings.
- Allowed upload of course materials.
- Customization of classrooms for various courses.
- Ability to save classroom set-ups for future use.
- The audio connection did not allow for various call-in options (mixed dial-in & computer broke breakout rooms)
- Videos lagged for users & often froze so, it was determined the issue was not on our end but Adobe Connect's
- Required additional set-up time for users pre-session; we often had to connect with users one on one to complete this.
October 05, 2022
Adobe Connect Review for Training Experience
Adobe Connect is used to deliver technical and leadership training programs created by our team.
- Virtual platform for communication
- Interactive features
- Layouts Setups
- AV stability
- Higher number of participants in basic license
October 05, 2022
Adobe Connect review
I use Adobe Connect to participate in Adobe webinars. It is very easy to use, and I have never had connectivity issues. I have had to use other platforms with other companies in the Learning Development industry and have found some to be very difficult to navigate and often will not connect or be accepted by my company's firewall. I have never experienced that with Adobe Connect.
- Easy to use
- Compatible with other company networks
- No connectivity issues
- I have not experienced any issues
October 05, 2022
A Great Engagement Tool
Adobe Connect has been instrumental in helping my organization enhance collaboration, communication, and engagement challenges.
- Adobe Connect is great at bringing people together.
- Adobe Connect is great at polling the audience
- Adobe Connect is great at sharing information across the organization.
- Adobe Connect provides a great audio experience.
- Adobe Connect may want to address buffering with video usage.
- Adobe Connect may want to encourage use of the app as an employee engagement tool
September 13, 2021
Connectivity issues and connectivity dropping too big of an issue.
Score 4 out of 10
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Verified User
This program is being used by our company for training purposes
- I love the fact that you can do screen sharing with this program so that we can see what our trainer is seeing on their computer screen.
- I like the features such as raising hands and you know thumbs up thumbs down applaud laugh step away because I use all of those in the training classes that I've been with my company. We use the raised hand function in order to ask questions so if anybody in our training class has a question we just click on the raise hand option. And whenever we go on break we use the step away function.
- I like the fact that it has the function to not only use a microphone but also a camera so that when we come up to answer questions in our training class we go on camera as well as Mike and people get a chance to see who we are and that we're real people and actually hear our voices.
- One of the issues that I am constantly having with Adobe connect is connection issues with my company I use a lot of programs and they all require access to our VPN and a hardwired internet connection. Because our company has gone into the settings of our all-in-one computers and deactivated the functionality of being able to use wi-fi. I'm able to use the internet with no problem on my computer. I'm able to use all of the programs without any connection issues whatsoever accessing the VPN for our company but Adobe connect is constantly dropping in connection status. There's an icon in the upper left-hand corner that shows us out of four bars what are connection is at and I am constantly dropping between four green bars down to two orange bars. So the connectivity issues are a constant issue with Adobe connect.
June 11, 2021
"For professionals, it's a really valuable tool."
Our worldwide sales and marketing department uses this great tool. It is a great communication tool with many working capabilities. Adobe Connect supports meetings, training, and seminars. putting together national and international sales representatives is not really easy. We use this app to stay in touch and communicate with each other. Our sales staff benefit from the software since it motivates them.
- It's a quick method to exchange files, file, documents, and videos from a web app. Real-time conversation, and screen-sharing are all supported. It has a highly user-friendly interface. It is really simple to assist the teams.
- Even team engagements is beneficial since it allows them to share their expertise with others, and the big benefit is the security of the rooms' access is fairly simple to manage.
- The interface, which include features like notes, chat, pods, etc. When we're trying to gather rapid and exact information, simplify our work as much as possible.
- Adobe Connect's features since they allow team members to express their ideas during meetings without causing disruptions, thereby bypassing the current international boundary of distance.
- The recording options don't always function.
- When sharing media, files saved on the server may fail to upload.
- The internet load might cause connectivity issues, causing individuals or the entire session to fail.
May 20, 2021
It is very easy to make a connection
It has provided me a perfect platform where I can have easy discussions and easily I can share the computer screens with our team members. I also like its mobile application which has allowed my team members to ensure smooth operation of our working. It has amazing and well-developed functionalities for online video conferencing.
- Adobe Connect is a very effective tool, which is built on pod systems, where each pod performs a specific task. I have found it very effective for having meetings with my clients. It has covered all the distances and within few seconds it helps me to get connected.
- I like its interface which is very appealing because of its simplicity. Now, I never schedule any visits but use Adobe connect for showing the product description.
- Adobe Connect is helping me a lot to have meetings and sessions, across the world I can easily stay in touch with my foreign clients.
- Sometimes the system gets slow during the long-running of the application and we have to shut down the application, which consumes our time.
- Adobe Connect is a costly solution and its installation is not very easy.
- We also faced some issue during its purchasing to this needs an urgent attention.
Since most of the office went virtual in 2020, we had been using Adobe Connect for many of our meetings in addition to webinars. There were a lot of tools that gave us a lot of flexibility. For example, there was the option to go into breakout rooms or have a Q&A. This helped to provide a cohesive discussion and helped us to connect with the team easier.
- Ability to customize the layout of webinar rooms to tailor to my audience.
- Ability to add polls and Q&A.
- Ability to have more than one host at any given time.
- Recording a session isn't very straight forward.
- Tech issues such as participant getting kicked out.
- PowerPoint doesn't translate well through the Adobe Connect platform.
April 28, 2021
Bugs. Unstable.
Adobe Connect is pretty useful to organize meetings, trainings and seminars. Actually it is so easy setting up. We use this application to stay in touch with each other and talk with each other. It is used by a single department (CX consultants), in order to offer trainings and coaching. It works as a virtual classroom and it gets straight to the point.
- the app makes easy to deliver coaching and courses
- intuitive menu
- files and link sharing features
- some bugs and lags
- no virtual backgrounds
- video quality (especially compared to other vendors)
April 24, 2021
It works as an online collaboration tool, but there are better alternatives out there.
We started using Adobe Connect when it was Macromedia Breeze as an on-prem solution 15+ years ago. We stopped using it in favor of Webex, but other units on campus chose Adobe Connect a few years ago. This is a departmental decision and not across the whole organization.
- Flexibility to move pods around the screen
- Outdated interface
- Not as robust as other more modern solutions such as Webex and Zoom
- Feels very sluggish on users' computers
April 19, 2021
Connect helps you connect
Several departments across our firm use [Adobe Connect]. The one i can speak most on is the Learning and Development team. We use to to host all of our weekly classes that we present across the firm. For us it addresses the need to be able to host classes via the web.
- Can host a large number of attendees
- Share files, chat, share web links
- Share your screen and show content
- Interact with users
- i wish there was a raise hand, and other interactive features like you see in web ex
- i wish that it would integrate with InterCall easier or have built in ability for the audio
- i wish that it would have a better attendance tracking
April 14, 2021
Adobe Connect Review
We use it for Virtual Training Meetings. Use is mixed within the organization right now. Due to Covid, we are unable to train in person or have meetings in person. We also have employees throughout the United States and other countries and are unable to have them travel for training as well
- User engagement
- Included features
- recorded meetings
- reliability
- integration with other software
- ease of use
April 07, 2021
Adobe Connect- Customized Engagement
Adobe Connect is used across several agencies and departments, but not all. Adobe Connect was selected due to it's customization and engagement features. The primary goal is to have engaging virtual learning, that is interactive and well designed.
- Customized and tailored design and display
- Adobe Captivate functionality
- Layouts Allow for Learning Design and Run of show
- Their closed caption pod has to be connected to an external service
- Users joining via the web are less successful using all of the features.
- Requires planning and design to have the best experience. (Bad for events on the fly)
- The text is tiny. This is on the title of the share pods, and chat and attendee list. I imagine those with visual impairments might struggle.
September 19, 2019
Good for meetings, GREAT for virtual training!
Until last year, Adobe Connect was used as my company's meeting and virtual instructor-led training platform across the whole organization. We also used our area of the Adobe server to publish some of our e-learning modules created in Adobe Presenter or Captivate. Now, my company has switched to another tool (Zoom) and only a few people have retained our Adobe Connect licenses, primarily for training purposes (or for more complex meetings).
- Ability to set up multiple room layouts that "persist" indefinitely. This allows you to set up your room layout as far ahead of time as you'd like and/or re-use layouts over and over again.
- Access to a wealth of add-ons (like clocks, timers, interactive word clouds, random participant selector, etc.), many of which are free.
- A good variety of "pod" types -- different types of surveys, file shares, Q&A, whiteboard (with ability for participants to annotate), etc.
- Multiple ways you can share your screen -- share your whole desktop, share just selected windows, or share just selected applications.
- Ability to have multiple hosts for a meeting and to easily promote a participant to the Presenter or Host role on the fly.
- Breakout rooms, ability to record meetings with options for computer and/or phone audio (including the ability link in external phone conference lines), engagement meters (which, I'll admit, I haven't really used), and, I think, pretty much all of the features that most similar platforms offer.
- Ability to pause webcam, rather than having to stop it and restart it (and, when paused, it shows the last image it was displaying before you paused it).
- For meeting recordings published to the Adobe server, provides a left-hand navigation pane that allows the viewer to jump to different parts of the recording, like each time the layout changes or to the point at which someone typed a particular chat message.
- Ability to email the contents of the chat pods to yourself, both as a host and as a participant.
- No virtual background option
- Without multiple screens, you can't really see the room while you're screen sharing, making it harder (but not impossible) to monitor chat, and, I think, not possible to see others' webcams.
- No "call me" feature.
- Very expensive!
September 19, 2019
Adobe Connect really helps you connect!
We use it when we host virtual classes to be able to have a webcam and share a PowerPoint presentation. The best feature which we use almost every session is the ability to have virtual breakout sessions where people can be broken down into smaller groups to exchange on the various topics we are discussing.
- Virtual Breakout sessions
- Very simple to use
- Easy to set up your own templates
- More support for the trial period
- Better online support and videos to get started
- I haven't found the possibility to save as an MP4 file afterwards for distribution (if possible)
September 16, 2019
Disconnect with Adobe Connect
We attempted to use Adobe Connect as a webinar platform for the entire firm. We were really excited about the virtual breakout room functionality, which would let subsets of Learners in a class break off and have discussions, brainstorming sessions by themselves, and then return to the larger class to share their learning/experiences.
- It has a nice interface.
- It allows for multiple people to be on a video at the same time.
- We found the customer support to be lackluster. When we first transitioned to the platform, we had a LOT of technical difficulties. It proved EXTREMELY challenging to get someone from Adobe Connect to troubleshoot with us or attend a webinar with us so that they could experience what we were experiencing.
- We had troubles with the audio. Some of our learners take webinars at their desks via laptops with VOIP audio; others take webinars by dialing in through their mobile phones. If both VOIP and mobile were used to access the platform, the virtual breakout room functionality was not available. This may or be not be related to the way our firm's telephony is set up. We couldn't get a clear answer on this from either our internal technologists or Adobe's technologists.
September 14, 2019
Adobe - great to collaborate and tons of features
We used Adobe Connect for internal meetings, both large and small. It was more feature rich than some of the other options, and is best for recurring meetings because you can save the setup, content, etc., in your meeting room. Due to the robust features, it had more capability but I would say was less user-friendly for those that weren’t as familiar with the tool.
- Training - especially recurring courses
- Large scale webinars (one to many) presentations
- Dial in or speaker audio options
- Not as user friendly
- More complicated than other tools
June 20, 2019
Expand your reach and connect globally
Our organization is using Connect to deliver live online, instructor-led courses that allow students to take our ISO requirements and auditor training from anywhere. It helps us deliver more training courses to a larger audience while saving cost and time for both our company and the many students we deliver to. Our catalog of courses offered has grown significantly over the years we have used this platform.
- The ability to customize your screen layouts. making each classroom unique.
- Bandwidth and connectivity. Many other webinar platforms have limitations of how many users can attend with cameras. Adobe has no limit on how many users can join a meeting and stream live an HD quality camera. This feature makes the platform a true virtual classroom.
- Low cost. The pricing for a license is surprisingly affordable. Adobe has demonstrated great customer support as well. they offer other services - like having a tech expert available to assist with new users having any type of issues.
- There are some connectivity drops. This results in users having to log out and log back in. that generally solves it but multiple instances can lead to frustration.
- A smoother interface would be a nice enhancement. maybe some of the windows could be hidden and brought up as hover over windows.
- The backend CMS is easy enough to manage after you have worked in it for a while but there are a lot of root folders depending on your setup and it can be slightly clunky to navigate to where all your materials and content is.
March 27, 2019
Adobe Connect good for some things
I used Adobe Connect to conduct video training for non-profit work. It allowed the use of add-ins to display PowerPoint slides, and allow users to interact in discussion boards. I was able to design branding for multiple classroom types. I set up rooms with different features enabled such as timers, whiteboards, video playbacks (did not function well for all). There were conflicts sometimes based on the type of devices used to connect to the training. Some of the settings were not intuitive and I found the method for accessing recorded video to be a hassle. In order to download a training, you literally had to play the entire video from start to finish. Some of my workshops lasted 3 hours. This was very inconvenient.
- Allows the use of third-party add-ins such as a timer, or user poll. Pretty easy to set up.
- Love how you can set up multiple classrooms and create branding for each.
- Convenient method for contacting participants. Provide templates for sending out notifications.
- For some add-ins the functionality was limited - had problem with the PowerPoint slideshow feature. It did not always display properly as you progressed in slides.
- Some of the features were not compatible with phones. For example, Some participants were using phones to participate in class and the features were not compatible. There was no way to test the feature compatibility with different platforms. You create something beautiful for your trainees and you are unable to use.
- The price points were not very flexible. I had limited needs and I was paying a higher price tag than I should for what I needed. They should be more flexible with pricing based on features needed.
- Downloading recordings was a HUGE pain in the neck. Most of the training conducted lasted 3 hours or more. I felt like I was being punished to have to play back the entire presentation to download the recording.