"How to" Guideline series is coordinated by Helen Mongan-Rallis of the Education Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to improve these guidelines please me at e-mail hrallis@d.umn.edu.

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UM Connect (Adobe Connect): Guidelines for Instructors and Administrators

By Helen Mongan-Rallis. Last updated: December 18, 2008

To set up a UMConnect Session

  1. To access UMConnect, go to umconnect.umn.edu --> you will be asked to authenticate (login, using your U of MN login and password. Once you have logged in, you will be taken to the UMConnect home page.
  2. Under the "create" menu on the left of the page, click on the "new meeting" link

    screen shot showing UMConnect home page

  3. Entering settings for your meeting:
    1. In the box for "Name" enter the name of the session. e.g. In my example below, I created a session with the name, "How to use UMConnect."
    2. Ignore the Custom URL box
    3. Summary: enter a brief description of the session giving users an idea of what the session will be about.
    4. Start time & Duration: this defaults to the time that you enter the meeting information. Change this to the anticipated start time and duration of the meeting. I usually set the start time 15 minutes earlier than the formal start of the meeting and err on the side of caution by setting the duration longer than the meeting will actually run.
    5. Template and language: ignore unless you want to change from the defaults
    6. Access: For most sessions setting this at "Anyone who has the URL..." works best, as you avoid running into having to enter the information on each user. All that you need to do if you set up your session this way is to send the URL to participants or place a link to the meeting on your course or other website, and users can click on the link to connect directly to the session. Use the "Only registered users" option it the session is confidential and you want to be sure that only specific registered users can connect to the session (e.g. for a closed meeting).
    7. Once you have created the settings, scroll to then end of the page. If your meetings is set for "anyone who has the URL" then click on the "Finish" button. If your meeting is only for registered users, then you will need to click on the "Next" button and enter in the information for each user before proceeding to the "finish" page.

      screen shot showing how to enter meeting info

    8. Sharing meeting information with participants: Once you have set up the meeting, the summary screen appears with the information about your session. Copy and paste the URL from this screen into an email or onto a web page to enable users to join the session. If you want to enter the meeting right away, click on the "Enter Meeting Room" button.

      Summary information on meeting screen shot

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