From the meeting menu dropdown, go to Preferences > Share pod > Screen.
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29 Jul 2024
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Learn how to share your screen as a host, presenter, or participant during Adobe Connect sessions.
As a host or presenter in a session, you can share windows, applications, or your entire desktop. Your account administrator can restrict the applications and processes that you can share. As a participant in a session, to share your screen, a host must permit you or promote you to a presenter or host.
Users with a dual monitor setup can select Share My Screen to share a monitor. However, only one screen can be shared at a time.
When you share something on your computer screen, actions you take in the shared region (windows, applications, or entire screen) are visible to all participants in the session. Participants follow the progress of your cursor across your screen. When starting a screen share, hosts and presenters can enforce the room's settings for the participants. The Share pod can be opened in full-screen mode for all attendees to provide a better viewing experience.
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Hosts can show their cursors without sharing their screens. To do so, from the meeting menu dropdown, go to Preferences > General > Host cursor. Select the required cursor setting.
To be visible in the Share pod, the areas you share must be visible to other participants on your desktop. Overlapping windows on the desktop will appear as a blue crosshatched pattern in the Share pod.
Change quality of screen-sharing
By adjusting these settings, you can control the quality of the screen share to balance performance and clarity based on your internet connection and session requirements. To enhance screen-sharing quality, use the following steps.
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Use the slider to change the quality of the screen-sharing session.
- High- 8 fps
- Standard- 6 fps
- Medium- 4 fps
- Low- 2 fps
Use the Room Bandwidth Settings in Administrator > Compliance and Control > Share Settings to set the screen share quality. Whatever value you choose here reflects the same quality of the screen share.
For example, if there are significant delays before attendees view changes to a shared screen, you can lower the quality of screen share using the Quality setting.
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(Optional) To turn off preview webcam feed before starting the feed, go to options from Video pod and choose Preferences > Privacy > Disable Webcam Preview.
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(Optional) To highlight the video feed of the current speakers in the Video pod, choose Video > Privacy > Highlight Active Speakers.
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Do one of the following to open a Share pod:
- Select Layouts > Sharing.
- Select Share > Add New Share from the pod menu in the title bar.
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In the center of the Share pod, drag and drop a file to start sharing.
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(Optional) To make the attendees view the shared content in full-screen mode, select Make Share Pod Full Screen for Attendees at the bottom of the Start Sharing Screen window.
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Select the Share button at the bottom of the Start Screen Sharing window to begin sharing.
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Ask your host to select your name in the Attendees pod and then select Request to Share Screen.
An alert on your screen says, Begin Sharing Desktop?.
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Select Start.
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Select the Share button at the bottom of the Start Screen Sharing window to begin sharing.
Screen sharing options
Note:
These options are available only in the application mode, not the browser mode.
Full Screen
It shares the contents of your desktop. If multiple monitors are connected to your computer, a desktop appears for each monitor. Select the desktop that you want to share.
The Secure Desktop Sharing option only appears if the account administrator has restricted the applications and processes you can share. The Desktop option allows you to share authorized content on your desktop.
Note:
Authorized content refers to any materials, such as presentations, documents, images, videos, or other media, approved and uploaded by a host or presenter during a meeting or webinar.
Applications
It shares an authorized application and all the related Windows that are open and running on your computer. Select the application or applications that you want to share.
Windows
Shares one or more authorized windows that are open and running on your computer. Select the window or windows that you want to share.
Share control of your screen
While screen sharing, you can transfer control of the shared desktop, window, or application to another host or presenter.
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From Share pod, start sharing your screen.
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A host or presenter clicks Request Control on the Share pod title bar.
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You see a request message in the upper-right corner of the meeting room window. Do one of the following:
- Select Accept to grant control of your screen.
- Select Decline to deny control of your screen
Request control of a shared screen
Hosts and presenters can request control of the screen and take it once they receive the necessary permissions.
Select the Request Control button on the Share pod’s title bar.
If the request is accepted, a message informs you that you have been granted screen control. The Request Control button becomes a Release Control button. You can now take control of the shared screen.
Release control of a shared screen
Select Release Control on the Share pod control strip to return control of the shared screen to the original Host or Presenter.
Change the view of a shared screen
If another presenter shares their screen with you, you can scale the screen to fit entirely within the Share pod. In addition, you can zoom in for a clearer image.
In the upper-right corner of the Share pod, choose Change View, then select either Scale To Fit or Zoom In.