Newsletter - Q1 - 2025 - Envolvemedia

- Q1 2025 -

ADOBE Connect 12.8 Release

Experience the next level of virtual engagement with Adobe Connect 12.8! This release introduces the powerful Session Analytics Dashboard, providing a unified view of participant activity and engagement with easy post-session reporting. Dive deeper into your events with enhanced Event Analytics, offering detailed insights, expressive new reaction options, and improved UI for effortless navigation. Hosts will love the ability to pop out video cells for key presenters or interpreters, while seamless breakout room transitions and upgraded pod management make collaboration smoother than ever. Plus, replace recordings with externally edited videos without losing your original URLs. With these innovations and more, Adobe Connect 12.8 is designed to transform the way you connect, collaborate, and captivate.

Click here to see the full release notes or attend are webinar, listed below.

Discover the Latest Features in Adobe Learning Manager’s November 2024 Release!

The November 2024 release of Adobe Learning Manager brings an array of exciting features to enhance learning management, integration, and accessibility. The AI-powered Search revolutionizes course discovery with its ability to combine lexical and semantic searches, delivering results that truly understand the intent behind your queries. Stay on top of regulatory needs with updated Compliance Dashboards, enabling admins to share insights and set compliance widgets on learner homepages. Additionally, the new Credly Integration simplifies badge management, allowing learners to showcase their achievements across social platforms seamlessly.

For seamless platform interaction, Webhooks and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) empower administrators to connect Adobe Learning Manager with other systems effortlessly. Use Webhooks to automate real-time data sharing, or leverage LTI to integrate with external LMS platforms for a unified learning experience. This update also emphasizes inclusivity and customization with Multi-Language Support, introducing Hindi and language-specific modules, and Custom Roles, offering admins granular control over permissions. Plus, tools like Completion Comments, Waitlist Reports, and Accessibility Enhancements improve workflows, helping learners and admins alike. From setting attendance criteria for MS Teams sessions to organizing modules with new migration workflows, this release caters to every need. Upgrade to the enhanced Adobe Learning Manager and experience a smarter, more integrated, and inclusive platform built for modern e-learning.

Click here to see the full release notes or attend our webinar listed below.

Do you like to make a statement in your Adobe Connect Meetings? Do you struggle with finding creative ways to promote your upcoming events or seminars and need an easy and free solution? Well Adobe Connect has a new custom pod for you, the Billboard Pod!

The Billboard Pod allows the host to upload an image, pick its scaling for the room and link to a URL. Giving you easy flare to add to your lobby layouts or follow up action items at the end of your session.

Try it here.

Every Monday, we have Office Hours back-to-back that help you with Adobe Connect and Adobe Learning Manager. At 2pm ET, you can register and log into a room and get help with Adobe Learning Manager. Right after that at 3pm ET, we have our experts with Adobe Connect ready to help you. We answer questions and assist with your particular use-case in either Connect or Adobe Learning Manager.

To register for any session, you can click HERE to register.

We are continuing our series where we provide short Video Blogs (VLOG) that will give you insight to a specific function in Adobe products, including Captivate, Connect, Presenter, Learning Manager, and the Creative Cloud products.

Here are a few that we have released:

ADOBE PREMIER PRO – TIPS AND TRICKS
ADOBE CAPTIVATE – OVERVIEW OF CAPTIVATE
ADOBE CONNECT – “CONNECTORDLE” CUSTOM POD
ADOBE LEARNING MANAGER – COMPLIANCE DASHBOARD

We have many more released in our library and intend to continue to release new VLOGs on a regular basis. You can also find the VLOGs and more helpful videos on our YouTube page.

If you have any suggestions for subject that we can create a VLOG in the future, please reach out to us by sending an email to sales@envolvemedia.com.

- EVENTS -

Version 12.7 – Getting Started Series

Envolvemedia is hosting a recurring class on Adobe Connect 12.7. This training webinar will review enhancements released in Connect 12.7, basic skills needed to create a room and how to design the room once it is set up. We’ll also discuss commonly used pods and tasks that you will need to perform to provide a seamless experience for your participants, while managing presenters behind the scenes.

Build Your Personal Room

Creating a Meeting Room Step-by-Step
Learn how users can test audio and video prior to entering the meeting

Managing an Adobe Connect Meeting Room

What is a Pod? And Pod Customization
Managing attendees and managing your audience
Setting and viewing connection properties
Starting a recording

Maximizing Pod Contents

Maximizing pod content within Meeting room
The 4 Pods you need in every Meeting
Customizing your Connect Meeting room
Optimizing the experience

Closing a Meeting and Follow Ups

Managing Recordings
Viewing Session Reports

What’s New and On the Roadmap

Adobe Connect NEW and BETA Features

December 3 - 2:00p-3:00p EST

January 7 - 2:00p-3:00p EST

February 4 - 2:00p-3:00p EST

March 4 - 2:00p-3:00p EST

April 1 - 2:00p-3:00p EST

Adobe Learning Manager – AI-Powered Learning for the Modern Workforce

Thursday, December 12 – 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST (10:00am 11:00am PT)

In today’s rapidly evolving learning landscape, leveraging the latest technologies is key to delivering impactful training. Join us for a complimentary webinar as we explore how Adobe Learning Manager (ALM) integrates AI, Machine Learning, and personalized experiences to meet the unique needs of learners in all types of organizations. We’ll also reveal the latest User Interface (UI) updates, designed to enhance user experience and simplify management.

Specifically, attendees will learn:

How AI and Machine Learning drive smarter, adaptive learning pathways in ALM
Strategies for fostering collaboration through social learning environments
Steps to create personalized learning plans and custom catalogs for your organization
About ALM’s latest UI facelift and how it enhances user engagement

December 12 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST

Adobe Connect – What’s New in 12.8

Thursday, December 12, 2024 – 2:00pm – 2:30pm EST (11:00am – 11:30am PT)

A new year means a new update to Adobe Connect, introducing Adobe Connect 12.8. In this webinar we will go over the new features included in this update, such as,

• The New Session Analytics Dashboard,
• New Meeting Room Reactions and Emoticons,
• Pop Out Videos from the Webcam Pod
• And, Replacing Recordings with Externally edited videos.

December 12 - 2:00p-2:30p EST

The Birds Eye View, New Reporting Features of Adobe Connect

Thursday, January 9, 2025 – 2:00pm – 2:30pm EST (11:00am 11:30am PT)

Adobe Connect 12.8 introduced new ways to get reports from your Adobe Connect Session.

Learn about some of the new features added in our 30 minute webinar, like:
– The New By Session Reports,
– Minute by Minute Engagement Metrics,
– Downloading and Storing.

January 9 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm EST

Adobe Learning Manager – November 2024 Release

Thursday, January 14 – 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST (10:00am 11:00am PT)

Discover the latest innovations in Adobe Learning Manager designed to enhance your learning management experience. From AI-powered search to real-time notifications and seamless integrations, this webinar will provide you with all you need to elevate your LMS capabilities. Learn how to optimize search, enable content sharing, streamline compliance, and enrich learner engagement.

Key Highlights:

AI-Powered Search: Enhanced search capabilities that understand intent and transcribe video, PDF, and audio content to deliver the most relevant results.
Language tagging of instances: You can now have a truly enriched language experience by allowing your learners to filter instances based on a particular language.
Custom Roles Enhancements: Allowing you to create more precise role-based permissions for various resources and access custom reports for streamlined auditing.
Compliance Dashboard Sharing: Enable shared access to compliance tracking and reporting, simplifying compliance management across teams.

January 14 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST

New Ways to Use Webcams during an Adobe Connect Session

Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 2:00pm – 2:30pm EST 11:00am 11:30am PT)

In Adobe Connect 12.8 there are more ways than ever to utilize the webcam during an Adobe Connect Session. Learn some tips and tricks to get the most out of the Pop out Video.

• How to use Pop Out Videos
• Best Practices with webcams during a session
• Compliance and Accessibility Tips and Tricks.

February 13 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm EST