Online Learning Resource Center
Extend the boundaries of your courses
The Online Learning Resource Center offers resources for faculty who want to use online learning in a variety of ways and foster more collaborative learning experiences. Whether you want to extend your classes with virtual elements or run an entirely virtual course; create reusable online learning content; or collaborate with other researchers, faculty, students, parents, or the community at large, you'll find help here.
You can extend the boundaries of your courses through virtual classes, asynchronous learning content and collaboration, and synchronous collaboration. Find resources for engaging in eLearning activities.
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Extend courses Extending courses with virtual classrooms
Adobe® Connect™ software includes comprehensive tools and features that extend learning beyond the brick and mortar of traditional classrooms. Explore ways to create a virtual environment connecting groups of learners in engaging and interactive ways.
Creating reusable online content
Using Adobe Presenter, Adobe Captivate®, or Acrobat software, you can create online learning content. Learn how to reach your online students with engaging content that is easy to create and even easier to reuse.
Collaborating with educators and students online
Use Adobe Connect to collaborate online and disseminate information to individuals in diverse locations. Learn how to foster successful online collaborative meetings and take advantage of all the capabilities of the software.
Providing support for virtual classes and online meetings
For virtual classes, online collaborations, or learning content posted online for students, you will find many kinds of support here. Take advantage of Adobe Connect support tools to make your online learning experience efficient and productive.
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Extending courses with virtual classrooms
Using Adobe Connect, institutions can offer rich learning opportunities to a broad set of students, whether you want to run virtual courses or connect students in your course with other classrooms.
Design and delivering online classes
- Extending the classroom with Adobe Connect
- Overview of Adobe Connect
- Getting started: Preparing to lead online classes
- Adobe Connect best practices
- Understanding Adobe Connect meetings and meeting rooms
- Setting up for Adobe Connect meetings
- Audio and video conferencing with Adobe Connect
- Working offline with Adobe Connect Desktop
Creating reusable online classrooms
- Creating an Adobe Connect meeting room and scheduling meetings
- Adding and removing content in an Adobe Connect meeting room
Leading online classes
- Leading Adobe Connect meetings
- Recording and archiving an Adobe Connect meeting
- Editing a recorded Adobe Connect meeting
- Participating in Adobe Connect meetings
Managing online classes
Tracking student progress and class effectiveness
Creating reusable online content
Using Adobe Presenter, Adobe Captivate, or Acrobat, you can create a variety of learning content to use online-as standalone learning resources or as part of courses conducted online with Adobe Connect.
Planning for online learning content development
- Overview of Adobe Connect
- Tools for developing reusable online content
- Getting started: Preparing to develop online content
Designing useful online learning content
Developing online learning content
Adobe Presenter
- Creating an Adobe Presentation
- Adding audio to an Adobe Presentation
- Editing audio in an Adobe Presentation
- Adding Adobe Captivate and Flash content to Adobe Presentations
Adobe Acrobat X Pro
- Overview of Adobe Acrobat
- Creating PDF documents
- Adding links and buttons to PDF documents
- Creating PDF forms
- Creating PDF documents from web pages
- Adding Adobe Presentations to PDF documents
- Inserting rich media into a PDF document
Adobe Captivate
- Recording and publishing Adobe Captivate software simulations
- Creating Adobe Captivate projects from Microsoft PowerPoint
- Creating interactive training scenarios with Adobe Captivate
- Editing Adobe Captivate projects
- Creating quizzes with Adobe Captivate
- Creating dynamic presentations with variables
- Adding audio to Adobe Captivate projects
- Adding Flash Video to Adobe Captivate projects
- Creating and applying object styles in Adobe Captivate
- Using master slides in Adobe Captivate
- Adding rich animation effects in Adobe Captivate
Adobe Connect Collaboration Builder Toolkit SDK
Delivering online learning content
Collaborating with educators and students online
Using Adobe Connect, you can run online meetings to collaborate at a distance and disseminate information to individuals in diverse locations or conduct an online forum so students can team up on projects.
Designing and preparing for online meetings
- Overview of Adobe Connect
- Getting started: Preparing to lead online meetings
- Adobe Connect best practices
- Collaborating with educators and students by using Adobe Connect meetings
- Understanding Adobe Connect meetings and meeting rooms
- Setting up for Adobe Connect meetings
- Audio and video conferencing with Adobe Connect
Creating reusable meeting rooms
- Creating an Adobe Connect meeting room and scheduling meetings
- Adding and removing content in an Adobe Connect meeting room
Leading online meetings
- Leading Adobe Connect meetings
- Recording and archiving an Adobe Connect meeting
- Editing a recorded Adobe Connect meeting
- Working offline with Adobe Connect Desktop
Sharing documents with others
Managing online meetings
Viewing meeting reports
Providing support for virtual classes and online meetings
For virtual classes, online collaborations, or learning content posted online for students, faculty will find many kinds of support here.
Getting started
- Overview of Adobe Connect
- Getting started: Supporting Adobe Connect users
- Technical considerations for Adobe Connect users
- Setting up Adobe Connect users, groups, and permissions
- Branding Connect Central
- Virtualization with Citrix XenApp 6
Scheduling online classes and meetings
Managing online content, meetings, and classes
Viewing user, content, and meeting reports
- Viewing Adobe Connect System Usage reports
- Viewing Adobe Connect Content reports
- Viewing Adobe Connect Meeting reports
- Viewing Adobe Connect Account reports
integrating connect with your learning management system
- Adobe Solutions for Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Adobe Connect integration with Blackboard Learn 9
- Adobe Connect integration with Blackboard ANGEL
- Adobe Connect integration with Blackboard Vista/CE
- Adobe Connect integration with Blackboard Academic Suite
- Adobe Connect integration with Moodle
- Adobe Connect integration with Sakai