Getting Started with Connect

Indiana University offers Connect (formerly Breeze) Meeting to faculty and staff who want to use Web collaboration in their administrative meetings and academic classes. Web collaboration (also called data collaboration or Web conferencing) provides you with a virtual meeting/classroom environment for sharing your presentations, images, and desktop applications with remote participants. With Connect, you can also take advantage of features like a digital whiteboard, text chat, polling, and audio/video broadcasting. To attend your Web meeting, your participants need only a Web browser with the Flash plugin (almost all computers have this already) and a broadband Internet connection.

Note: Connect is a Web collaboration tool distributed by Adobe. When IU originally purchased the software, it was owned by Macromedia, who named the product Breeze. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and soon after changed the name of the product from Breeze to Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. You're likely to hear it called Breeze and Connect interchangeably.

To apply for a Connect Meeting account at IU, you must first complete the Connect Meeting application form.

Creating your First Connect Meeting
1.	Once your Connect Meeting account application has been accepted, you can use the username and password found in your acceptance email message to log into the Connect Manager: http://breeze.iu.edu Note: If you decide to change your Connect password, DO NOT use your IU network password as the Connect system is not as secure as IU's central authentication systems (we are working to make Connect authentication work with IU's CAS authentication system, but this feature is not yet available).
2.	Select New Meeting from the left side of the screen.
3.	Give your meeting a name and optionally a custom URL and summary. The meeting name you choose must be unique among the meetings you've created in your Connect account (i.e., you can not have two meetings with the name "Office Hours" but you and another Connect Meeting Presenter can each have a meeting named "Office Hours"). If you choose to use a custom URL, it must be unique across the entire Connect server (i.e., if you use the custom URL "biology", no other user on the Connect server can use the custom URL "biology").
4.	Choose a start time and duration for you meeting. Note: There are no real limits on your meeting time; you and your participants can enter your meeting room before, during and after the scheduled time. The time you set up here is only used in the email that you can choose to send to particpants in a later step.
5.	Select the default meeting template and change the access control to: Anyone who has the URL for the meeting can enter the room.
6.	For Audio Conference Settings, keep the default: Do not include any audio conference with this meeting. We may later explore the possibility of linking a Connect meeting room to a phone conference, but for now, this is not operational.
7.	Select the Finish button at the bottom of the wizard to finish setting up your new meeting.
For further help with the Connect Manager, please see the Breeze Manager User Guide. For more information on hosting a Connect Meeting, please see the Breeze Meeting User Guide for Hosts and Presenters. If you are an IUB faculty member using Connect in your class, you can contact the Teaching and Learning Technology Centers for further help. If you are an IU staff or faculty member using Connect for research or administrative purposes, please contact your departmental support provider for further help.
Entering Your Meeting
1.	Install Adobe Connect Meeting Add-in for Windows or Macintosh Operating Systems. The Connect Meeting Add-in allows you to share your screen and upload files to meetings.
2.	Test your computer to make sure that you are set up with all of the tools you will need to participate in the meeting.
3.	To join the meeting, log into the Connect Manager and click the Meetings tab. Click on the name of your meeting to see the meeting details and click the Enter Meeting Room button to enter the room. Alternately, you can go directly to the meeting's URL and log in as a registered user with your Connect username and password.
Inviting Participants to Your Meeting
1.	To invite Participants to your meeting, you need to know the Web address (URL) for your meeting. To determine this, log into the Connect Manager and click the Meetings tab. Click the name of your meeting to see the meeting details, including the URL for the meeting. There are also option to send meeting invitations directly from the Connect Manager and from the Connect meeting room.
2.	Compose an email message to your Participants and include your meeting URL. Instruct the users to point their Web browsers to the meeting's URL and log in as Guest. In addition, you might want to include a link to IU's Resources for Connect Participants Web page (http://www.indiana.edu/~breeze/particpant.html) where users can test their connections to the Connect server, download the Connect Meeting Add-in (optional), and read the Participant User's Guide. Here is a sample invitation with all of the necessary information for Participants.