Adobe+Connect

[|Adobe Connect] (formerly Breeze) is a web communication system that allows you to hold virtual meetings using chat and file share options, enhance presentations and share on the World Wide Web, track and report usage, and virtual event management options.

The Adobe Connect professional package has 4 major components: 1. Presenter – a simple plug-in to PowerPoint that allows users to enhance presentations by inserting rich media elements, set presentation settings, place quiz questions, and insert audio. Adobe Connect creates flash files of the final product that can be published locally to a user’s computer or the Internet – posted on a Breeze server. 2. Training – Create blended curriculums where user progress can be tracked and reported. It is a kind of mini LMS. 3. Meeting – Virtual meeting rooms with chat option, ability to share voice and camera, polling, and document share. Multiple people can present at the same time. 4. Events – This lets you pre and post manage meetings from sending invitations, registration management, and event tracking.
 * Components:**

The biggest strength of Adobe Connect is that 97%c of all users (as Adobe claims) already have flash installed and that is the only plug-in you need to run Adobe Connect. There are no elaborate downloads.
 * Biggest Strength:**

The Quiz Manager and Audio Editor features in Presenter are cool as they are very easy to use.

**Other Strengths:**
 * User friendly
 * Free trial versions to try out the product
 * Very versatile Presenter options like Quiz Manager and Audio
 * Comprehensive package for large corporations with a many users


 * Limitations:**
 * The costs include buying the individual software licenses and then the cost to host the files on a Breeze server. The cost depends on the number of licenses that an organization purchases.
 * The Training package is not compatible/ redundant with individual LMS(s) that an organization may already have in existence.


 * Costs:**

Adobe Connect offers 5-user or 10-user starter packs (concurrent participant seats and unlimited usage) at $375 and $750 per month and a pay per use plan at $0.32/min per user.