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webconf

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.

Adobe Connect
Costsfree of charge
Number of participants200 system-wide
Event organizerStaff
Participantsany, also external
Duration of meetingunlimited
availabilitymay vary due to the participant limit, we try to predict this if all organizers announce their meetings in advance using the form
Features
  • Video/Audio
  • Chat
  • Desktop sharing
  • Application sharing
  • File sharing
  • Whiteboard
  • Discussion
  • Voting
Usein the browser with an app for Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS, and Android

What to do

  1. Log in
    Go to https://webconf.uni-hohenheim.de and log in with your Hohenheim user account. With the first login, an account will be created automatically.

  2. Create meeting
    You can create a meeting once and use it repeatedly:
    - Button at top right [ Create | Meeting ]
    - Define name and meeting URL

  3. Invite participants
    Invite all participants to your meeting by email: name time and meeting URL.

  4. Participation
    The first time you click the link, an app (Windows, Mac, IOS, or Android) will be installed automatically, which will run the meeting. If there are problems with the automatic installation, you can also install the software manually:
    Adobe Connect Windows
    Adobe Connect Mac

 

System-wide, the number of participants is limited to 200. Therefore please register your webconf meeting. This way we can see in advance if the resources will be available for the upcoming meeting and if not, we can inform you in time.

Notes

  • Availability of the meeting
    Start time and duration are not important, the meeting is available until you delete it

  • Invitation to a meeting
    You can also specify participants in the meeting settings and send invitations from there. But this is only possible for internal university members who have already logged in to webconf. Therefore, we recommend that you send the invitations yourself by email for the sake of simplicity.

  • Number of meetings
    You can create as many new meetings as you like. We recommend not creating a new meeting for every appointment but to always use the same meeting for a particular project.

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.

Video conferencing and online seminars with Adobe Connect

With webconf you can conduct video conferences for e.g. meetings, workshops, and seminars. Webconf is an Adobe Connect installation operated in Hohenheim.

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