Online workshops using Adobe Connect

for large groups of normally campus based students

Fang LouSchool of Life and Medical Sciences

/The Learning and Teaching Institute

Outline of the session

• Rationales

• Adobe Connect – what are there?

• How to overcome technical issues

• Students feedback

Could this be your revision session?

Where shall we go

tonight?

Yes! – you can’t hear

me can you?

Yes, but..

Too scared to ask

No, but…

Any questions?

Rationale

• Informative workshops – peer assessment; poster info; group work

• Large group of students – all students get the same information

• Revision sessions

• Personal contact

• Flexibility of using various tools

Adobe Connect – what are there?

5

Sharing board

Chat window

Attendees

Audio test Video

NotesFiles

Adobe Connect – what are there?

Presentation:– Sharing documents / screen

– Audio

– Video

Interaction – Chat

– Emoticons

– Quiz

– Q & A

Possible technical issues to overcome

• Training staff

• Training students

• Book a virtual room

• Prepare for the teaching material

• During the session – stay in control

• Recording or not

Students’ questions

should the references be on the poster

too?can we put secondary data from internet basically there is an experiment done on my topic

The verbal presentation? How does that

work?

Ok, what kind of questions could we be asked?

Students’ feedback

Yes thank you so much for this session its really very helpful! you have

answered every question we were confused

about! thank you so much!

That was very

helpful

I think it's clear now

to everyone

Could we have revision online?