Adobe Connect Central homepage

Learn how to use the Adobe Connect Central homepage to efficiently manage your meetings, content, recordings, and reports.

Adobe Connect Central is your web-based platform for managing meetings, webinars, training sessions, and shared content. From setting up new rooms to post-session analytics and content management, Connect Central helps you handle every stage of your virtual collaboration workflow all in one place.

With Adobe Connect Central, you can:

• Create and manage meeting rooms for meetings, events, and virtual classrooms.
• Upload, organize, and access content, such as presentations, documents, or videos, outside of rooms.
• Access, edit, and share recordings and transcripts of previous sessions.
• View reports on session attendance, engagement, registration, and content views.

Account administrators can manage users, assign permissions, set policies, and configure settings that apply across the entire account. Follow the step-by-step guide to update these settings as needed.

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How to access Adobe Connect Central

Getting started with Adobe Connect Central is straightforward. Access methods are tailored to your organization's setup and licensing arrangement.

For hosted users

• Access your portal directly at: https://[accountname].adobeconnect.com
• Replace [accountname] with your organization's specific account identifier provided during setup.

For licensed users

Contact your system administrator for the custom domain URL specific to your organization's installation.

Overview of the Connect Central home page

Upon successful login, you'll be directed to the Adobe Connect Central homepage, your central hub for all virtual collaboration activities. This interface provides quick access to essential functions and displays recent activities for quick reference.

The home page consists of the following:

Create button

The Create button is located at the top-right of the page. The button allows you to:

The home page includes widgets that allow you to easily manage rooms, events, recordings, and your event calendar. The sections below explain how to use each widget.

Rooms widget

The Rooms widget provides quick access to the rooms you have created or participated in. It allows you to monitor activity, view recordings, and perform actions like entering the room, viewing recordings, or accessing room reports.

Key Features

• Real-time room monitoring: Track active sessions and participant counts.
• Quick access controls: Enter rooms, view recordings, and access reports with a single click.
• Detailed room history: Review past sessions and associated materials.

Navigate through the widget using the following options:

Recordings widget

View recent recordings of the meetings with access to play and edit recordings. Select View all to view the recordings.

The Recordings widget offers immediate access to your session recordings, providing powerful tools for content management and distribution.

• Recent recordings: View the most recent session recordings with easy navigation.
• Quick actions: Play, edit, or share recordings without leaving the homepage.
• Usage analytics: The Views column shows the total number of times a recording has been accessed or played.

Navigate through the widget using the following options:

Additionally, you can download or replace a recording.

Events widget

The Events widget helps you manage the full lifecycle of your events, from initial planning through post-event analysis.

Upcoming events help keep you updated. From the event room, you can directly enter the room, edit event details, preview the site, and view reports.

Navigate through the widget using the following options:

Past events show the recently completed events. You can view the registered participants, attendees, and qualified leads.

You can also view reports, details, and recordings using the following options:

Select View all to view all the events.

Calendar widget

The Calendar widget offers a flexible scheduling view that works across all your Adobe Connect activities. You can switch between different views and apply filters to quickly find the sessions that matter most.

Key features:

• View your schedule by day, week, or month.
• See upcoming and past sessions at a glance.
• Filter sessions by role, such as Host, Presenter, or Participant.

Join a meeting

Follow the below steps to join the meeting from the homepage:

Adobe Connect Central menu bar

The top navigation menu gives you structured access to all major features in Adobe Connect Central. It’s organized by task, making it easy to find what you need based on your role and workflow.

• Home: Redirects to Adobe Connect Central homepage for managing rooms, events, recordings, and calendar.
• Content: Opens the Content Library to upload, organize, and manage files and presentations for meetings or training.
• Training: Provides access to virtual classrooms, courses, and curriculums. You can manage enrollments, monitor learner progress, and develop training catalogs.
• Meetings: Create and manage rooms, view recordings, and invite participants.
• Seminars: Organize and manage seminars of any size, resolve scheduling conflicts, prepare rooms, and generate reports.
• Events: Create and manage webinar events, including registrations, emails, and analytics.
• Reports: Create reports for courses, meetings, content, learners, virtual classrooms, and more to track usage, progress, attendance, and system activity across Adobe Connect training and learning sessions.
• Admin: (Visible to administrators only) Manage users, groups, account settings, permissions, and templates.

Use Adobe Connect search

The Search field in the upper-right corner of the Adobe Connect Central homepage allows you to quickly find what you need. Use keywords to search across meetings, recordings, courses, presentations, events, and other shared content.

On typing a search keyword and pressing Enter or on clicking the Search label, the HTML Search page opens.

In the Search bar, select Title & Description to see the drop-down list of the following search options:

• Title & Description (Default): Select to search content, meetings, trainings, seminars, folders or all of these by title and description and specify search keywords.
• Author: Select to search by author and specify search keywords.
• Within Content: Select to search for the specified keywords in your content.

To further narrow down your search, you can filter by the categories available below the Search bar, including Meeting, Training, Seminar, or Content.

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