Ways that Adobe Connect Meeting is Used

•student group meetings•office hours•student presentations•lecture delivery•guest speakers•webinar-style trainings•information sessions

Adobe Connect Meeting - What is it?

•sychronous tool (live, and online)•web-conferencing delivery•audio, webcam, screen share, text chat

Between Fall 2006

to Present :

Not all uses of Connect include audio, some do use text chat. Historically, faculty have been advised to change the delivery to

accommodate the student.

•live text chat,•asynchronous discussion•relay service•scheduling one-on-one time with the student who is deaf or hard-of-hearing.

For Winter 072 •80 course with deaf or hard of hearing students

•152 course offerings designated as using Connect (some courses may be a repeat offering)

•in those courses, a total of 34 deaf or hard of enrollments (one student may be enrolled in more than one course)

On average •4-5% of online students are deaf or hard of hearing

Interpreter broadcast via Connect

Real-time captions via Connect: Course

Real-time captions via Connect: Webinar

Set up via Connect Example

Some initial recommendation and lessons learned….

faculty and students need to adjust assumptions and expectations

•pacing, volume, annunciation•one-to-many or many-to-many?•repeating questions

a lot more preparation and planning involved

•faculty awareness•notifying registrar so students know in advance•overall request process and who’s involved

on-hand technical support needs to be considered

•someone in the room with the instructor•what if Connect or captioning issues

usability considerations

•captioning pod placement•is it effective or comparable to other methods?

costs

•captionist•technial support•phone charges if used

Some initial recommendation and lessons learned….