Integrating with Your Existing LMS

The discussion around Acrobat Connect Pro continued with Andrew Chemey highlighting a few ways in which Adobe products can integrate with an existing LMS to: enhance your offering or increase productivity.

He mentioned that Captivate and Presenter output can be tracked by an LMS using either the AICC or SCORM (which uses a structured ZIP format called SCORM-PIF) eLearning standards. If any of our team don’t yet know what SCORM is, please yell out as I think it’s vitally important you understand the 10,000 foot view. These products are also able to include quizzes and other interactions. Although these products are nice, they seem to be much better suited to those looking to deliver PowerPoint style content, online. They don’t hold a candle to the level of multimedia, animation and quality components that our clients and us are accustomed to seeing in courses.

There’s an App for That: If You Can Dream It, You Can Build It

This session was delivered as a showcase of the capabilities of Acrobat Connect Pro. Put simply, the Connect product is a framework for delivery of real time communication applications. There a bunch of pods (the small applications that run inside a session) that are available out of the box for a variety of video conferencing and virtual meeting scenarios. These include text based chat, pre-recorded and real-time video, voice chat, desktop sharing… and the list goes on.

Summed up by Terry Shane, the iPhone has been so successful because of  what the platform (device and App Store)  makes possible. He believes that Connect Pro is the iPhone of web conferencing.