Acrobat Connect (WebMeeting): Meeting roles

The person that creates a meeting is the "host," and persons invited to attend may be classified as participants, presenters, or hosts.   The privileges that attach to each role are listed below.  For more detailed information on managing the roles of host, presenter and participant, see the guides on this page.

Guests may also attend on permission of the host; a permission window will appear on the host's screen when guests arrive at a meeting.  Alternatively, the meeting can be set up to permit attendance by anyone who knows the meeting room URL (in which case no permission is required).  

Hosts

  • set up a meeting "room" and invite particular guests;
  • allow guests who have the meeting URL;
  • add content to a meeting (by uploading it);
  • switch, add, or edit layouts in a meeting room;
  • promote other participants to be hosts or presenters, either before the meeting or during it; and
  • have access to all of the tools and resources in the meeting room.

Presenters

  • work with content already loaded into the meeting room by the host;
  • show new content from their computer, provided the host has included the "sharing" pod in the meeting layout;
  • make anything displayed on the presenter's screen appear on the meeting room display of all attendees;
  • chat, answer questions, and
  • broadcast live audio and video.

Unlike hosts, presenters cannot make custom layouts, change the currently selected layout, change to a different layout while a meeting is in progress, or manage the attendee pod from within a meeting room.

Participants

  • can view the content that the presenter or host is showing or sharing;
  • hear and see the presenter's and host's audio and video broadcast;
  • use text chat, participate in polls, use the "My Status" icons in the "Attendee" pod;
  • download files from the "File Sharing" pod;
  • interact with Flash animations and videos made available by a host or presenter;
  • interact with Web sites shared by a host or presenter; and
  • broadcast their own audio and video, if given permission.

Essentially, participants have only the control that a presenter or host assigns to them. 

Guests

Guests who are admitted to a meeting automatically have the status of participants.  Hosts with democratic (small "d") inclinations can set the meeting to "auto-promote" all participants to presenters.

More information

See Adobe Connect (WebMeeting): Resources.