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The Adobe Connect Academic User Group (ACAUG) is made up of individuals from higher-education organizations who come together on the 3rd Friday of each month to get more out of Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. We help each other by sharing experience and expertise. Our meetings are open to any individuals in higher education.
User Group Leader: Laddie Odom
User Group Email: academic@connectusers.com
Meetings Held: Online
Meeting Frequency: Monthly
Upcoming Meetings
We are currently scheduling our next meeting
Previous Meetings
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Join us this Friday,May 21 at 1pm Eastern (GMT -4) for our May ACAUG meeting. Our speaker line-up includes Terry Shane of Refined Data, who will be joining us to demonstrate one of their latest offerings, Fast Track, their in-meeting tracking tool. We also look forward to a lively discussion during the open floor segment after the presentation, and of course the networking that occurs throughout! http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Hope you can make it! -Laddie
Fellow ACAUG Members, Please join us for our next ACAUG meeting this Friday, April 16th at 1pm EDT (UTC/GMT -4 hours) at our usual online location: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug As of this moment, we do not have any speakers lined up, but at the very least we will of course conduct our usual open floor session to share ideas and observations. And its always a great opportunity to network with colleagues! If you have an idea for a presentation, or would like offer a presentation at this or future meetings, please contact me directly ASAP at: lodom@umuc.edu Hope to see you all there! -Laddie
ACAUG Members, Please join us this coming Friday, March 19th at 1pm Eastern (UTC/GMT -4 hours) for our next Adobe Connect Academic Users Group meeting. The URL is the usual spot: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Hope you can make it!
ACAUG members, Happy new year! It's time for our very first ACAUG meeting of 2010, and it promises to be a festive affair! Please join us at at the usual time: 1PM Eastern (UTC/GMT -5 hours) and place: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Our presenter for this month is Tom Person, Lead Evangelist at connectsolutions, who will be demonstrating ConnectYou.Me for Adobe Connect Pro. ConnectYou.Me provides a real-time channel for students, customers, partners, and employees to reach the right people within your organization instantly. An intelligent gateway for routing external interests to the best people or Connect meeting room within your organization. Help desks, concierge services, call centers and sales/marketing folks all benefit from a single view into all incoming requests that can then route people to the best Connect meeting room based upon the need. For more information go here: http://www.connectsolutions.com/products/connectyoume/ We will also, of course hold our usual open floor segment too for any and all issues of interest to the group, plus who knows what else! Hope you can make it! -Laddie
ACAUG Members, Time to take a break from all the holiday preparations to join us for our December Adobe Connect Academic User Group meeting! While there are currently no guest speakers lined up (and that may change), we can certainly use our time together to open the floor to comments and discussion and generally chew the fat. If you have time to break away from all the present wrapping, please stop by at our usual place: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug The time is from 1pm - 2pm EST (UTC/GMT -5 hours). Come on by and join the festivities! -Laddie
ACAUG Members, Please join us this coming Friday, November 20th at 1p.m. Eastern (UTC/GMT -5 hours) for our very next Adobe Connect Academic Users Group meeting. The URL is the usual spot: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Kevin Cooper of MeetingOne will be talking about their MeetingOne Connect Audio-Integration solution and highlight some of the more unique features, such as Break-out integration, Token ID and more! We'll also of course have our usual open floor segment, and who knows what else! Hope you can make it! -Laddie
ACAUG Members, The third Friday of the month is nearly upon us once again, and you know what that means... time for our next Adobe Connect Academic Users Group meeting! It will be at our usual place online: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug The meeting will start at 1 pm U.S.Eastern (GMT -4), and run about one hour. Thanks to several fantastic individuals who responded to our recent plea for presenters, it looks like we have two lined up for this meeting, plus several others for future meetings. For Friday, we have a frequent and favorite past presenter, Terry Shane of Refined Data, to talk about their Talking Stick product and Robert Gibson, Ed.D. Associate CIO - Academic and User Services Emporia State University, will speak about his school's integration of Connect into Blackboard. And we still would love to hear from anybody else interested in presenting in the future, or just have topic suggestions. If you do, please write me at: lodom@umuc.edu In the meantime, hope you all can make it Friday! -Laddie
Greetings, fellow ACAUG members! It's time to shake the beach sand out of your shoes and join us for the September ACAUG meeting. We are scheduled to meet this Friday, but unfortunately, as yet still do not have any speakers lined up. We can, of course, always just have an open floor meeting, but hoped to highlight a topic or two for more in-depth presentations like we usually have in the past. Either way, please join us this Friday, September 18 at 1pm US Eastern (GMT - 4). Meeting URL: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug At the very least, we'll swap our summer vacation stories! -Laddie
Fellow ACAUG members, Summer is flying by fast, and its already time for our June ACAUG meeting; this Monday at 1pm Eastern (GMT -4:00) at our usual stomping grounds: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Alistair Lee from Adobe will be doing a demonstration of the Live videoMP3 audio player, and we may have another speaker as well, plus the usual open floor / networking opportunities. Should be a cool way to spend a hot June afternoon! Hope you can make it! -Laddie
Hi all, How time flies! Please join us this Friday afternoon, May 15th at 1:00pm U.S. Eastern time (5:00p.m. GMT) for our May ACAUG meeting. The URL for this online event is: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Although we currently do not have a presentation scheduled for this meeting, we do have folks interested in sharing some community news during our open floor segment, and perhaps a few surprises! If you would like to request time at this meeting to present content, please feel free to contact me (hopefully before Friday!) at lodom@umuc.edu. It should be a lively event as always... Hope you can make it! -Laddie
Hi all, Please join us for our April ACAUG meeting this Friday, April 17th, at 1pm Eastern (U.S) at our usual online meeting space: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug This meeting will offer the presentations that had been planned for the March meeting, which was cancelled. We will be hearing a presentation from Adobe's Alistair Lee on Breakout Rooms, and Terry Shane from Refined Data will be giving us his presentation on integration of Connect into the Moodle LMS. Hope you can make it! -Laddie
Please join us this Friday, February 20 at 1pm Eastern for our monthly Adobe Connect Academic User Group meeting. It will be at our usual spot: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug This month we'll discuss break-out rooms in Connect Pro. We'll also hear a presentation by Terry Shane from Refined Data about their Footprints add-in for Adobe Connect Pro. Terry writes at the forum: "The Footprints add-in for Adobe Connect Pro allows any organization to track its Carbon Savings as well as the financial and travel mileage that has been eliminated through the use of online technology." And of course, we'll have our regular open floor segment for discussion of whatever comes up. Please join us! -Laddie
Please join us this Friday at 1pm EST for our first ACAUG meeting of 2009! We'll meet at the usual place: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Join us as ACAUG kicks off the New Year with our usual discussions and demonstrations, plus maybe a few New Years resolutions! Please feel free to volunteer any ideas you may have for potential topics at the connectusers.com forum or during the Meeting! Hope to see you! -Laddie
ACAUG Members, Yes, it's that time again! Please join us this Friday, Nov 21, at 1pm EST for our November ACAUG Meeting at our usual location: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug We'll have a short presentation by our Adobe liaison, Alistair Lee, plus our regular open floor discussion plus whatever else pops up! Hope you can make it! -Laddie
Join us this Friday, Oct 17 for our October ACAUG meeting, online at: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Beyond the usual open floor discussion, the agenda is TBD. There is currently no guest speaker scheduled. If you would like to make a presentation to the group, please feel free to volunteer ASAP! Contact me at lodom@umuc.edu or simply leave a note in the Forum here at ConnectUsers.com. -Laddie
Welcome back all! We are geared up and good to go for our September meeting this Friday, but we don't have an agenda per se as of now. If nothing else, I plan on doing a review of a rival product to Adobe Connect, called Wimba. Perhaps you heard of it. I certainly have, and have a tale to tell about why I've learned so much about it! If you have something you'd like to talk about, speak up now, or wait for October. Join me for this and other news from the front at our next ACAUG meeting this Friday, September 19th. If anyone else would like to add to the agenda please speak up fast! Hope to see you there! Same time and place: September 19 1pm EST http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug -Laddie
Please join us on Friday, May 16th at 1pm Eastern for for our May Adobe Academic Users Group meeting. If you would like to offer a presentation for this or future meetings, please let us know via our forum here at cconnectusers.com or contact me directly at: lodom@umuc.edu The meeting will be at the same time, same place: 1pm Eastern http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug Hope to see you all there!
Following last month's hiatus, we're back! If you'd like to offer a presentation for this month month or a future meeting, let us know in the forum area. Same place, same time: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/acaug 1pm Eastern. Hope to see you all there!
Hi all, Well, it's that time again! Join us Friday, February 15th at 1pm Eastern for our next ACAUG meeting. There's a tentative demonstration scheduled, but since it is tentative, I'll save the details for now, and post a note in the Forum at Connectusers.com area if we get a confirmation. Or just show up ready to be surprised! In any event, we of course will have our usual open floor segment which is always exciting and informative. So be sure to join us. See you there! -Laddie ps I swear next time I'll be more prompt at getting these reminders out a little sooner than the day before!
Our regular meeting every 3rd Friday of the month at 1pm Eastern.
The Adobe Connect Academic User Group (ACAUG) is made up of individuals from higher-education organizations who come together on the 3rd Friday of each month to get more out of Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. We help each other by sharing experience and expertise. Our meetings are open to any individuals in higher education.
Previous Meeting Recordings
- April 17th, 2009 -- View Now
- Terry Shane illustrates how RefinedData has integrated Connect Pro with Moodle - an open source LMS
- Alistair Lee shows how the breakout configurator can be used to create collaborative breakout rooms in Connect Pro
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