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Video conferences and online-seminars with DFNconf

With DFNconf you have two technologies at your disposal: Pexip and Adobe Connect. Both can be used for video conferences, e.g. for meetings, workshops, seminars, and smaller lectures. Large e-learning lectures can be streamed via Pexip.

Features

You need an account if you want to host a meeting, but it will be created automatically the first time you log in. If you are only invited to a meeting, you do not need an account.

pexipAdobe Connect
Costsfree of chargefree of charge
Number of people

Video conferencing:
up to 50

Online seminar (streaming):
As many viewers as you want, connected through chat

200
Event organizerStaffStaff
Participantsany, also externalany, also external
Duration of meetingunlimitedunlimited
Availability

May vary as resources are shared with all facilities that use DFNconf.

To relieve the burden on the infrastructure and increase the accessibility of the service, it is recommended that meetings and events be held outside peak hours:
Peak times: 9 - 11 a.m. and 1 - 4 p.m.

Features

Video/audio, chat, sharing desktop, sharing application (window), sharing files

Additionally with only Adobe Connect: Whiteboard, voting

Use
  • in browser
  • with apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS, and Android
  • in the browser with an app for Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS, and Android

Technical equipment

Software for Adobe Connect

You can use it in your web browser. The first time you launch Adobe Connect, an app (Windows, Mac, IOS, or Android) is automatically installed and that is used to run the meeting.

Software for pexip

You can use it in your web browser. Apps are available for mobile devices (IOS and Android). On a desktop computer an app is not necessary, but there is one available (Windows, Mac, Linux).

Hardware

When using video and/or audio components, you need a webcam, microphone, and speakers. For passive participants, e.g. for a presentation, speakers are sufficient.

What to do

pexip

  1. Go to my.conf.dfn.de

  2. Please select our institution:
    "Universität Hohenheim"

  3. Log in with your Hohenheim user account .

    When you log in for the first time, a DFNconf account is automatically created for you after you have agreed to the terms of use. The account can be used immediately for pexip and Adobe Connect.

  4. You are now in pexip. If you want to use Adobe Connect instead, click on the "Adobe Connect" link in the top right-hand corner

  5. Create Meeting/Lecture
    You can create an event once and use it repeatedly:
    - button on top [ Create ]
    - define name and host pin
    - if you want to stream (lecture), activate streaming under "More settings”

  6. Invite others to the event
    You will find the contact details in the overview under invitation/text template. Send these including a time by email to all participants.

Lectures as video conferences

Holding lectures in real time as a video conference is not always the best solution. This is because with each additional person, the event becomes increasingly demanding for you on a technical, organizational, and didactic level. On a technical level, you must expect problems with individual participants in particular, but also problems of stability. We therefore recommend that you hold video conferences with no more than 30 participants.

Alternatively, you can also record lectures and publish them on our streaming server p2go.

This allows you to record the material either in the lecture hall or on your own device. Perhaps divided the lecture into smaller blocks of, say, 30 minutes. You can integrate these into ILIAS where you can also offer the possibility to ask questions which you can then answer there or in a new video.

You could always offer video conferencing as an additional place for questions and feedback.

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Software

pexip

Adobe Connect

Forums and Wikis

Video tutorials

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