Adobe Acrobat Connect provides you with a personal online meeting room in which up to 15 people (including the host) can collaborate via the web in real time. In your meeting room, you and other attendees can share your computer screens, use text chat, broadcast live video, and review meeting notes.

When you create an Acrobat Connect account, you are provided with a single URL to go to for all your meetings. As the owner of the meeting room, you can enter it at any time by typing your meeting URL into the address field of a web browser or by clicking the Start Meeting button in Adobe Acrobat 8, Adobe Reader 8, or another application. Share your meeting URL with others so that they can attend meetings in your room. For example, you can send the URL in an e‑mail invitation or instant message, or have it printed on your business cards.

Attendees join a meeting by clicking on the meeting URL link or by typing the URL into the address field of a web browser. Attendees cannot enter the room unless the host is present and has accepted their request to enter. As an attendee, your capabilities and permissions in a meeting depend on your role, which is assigned by the host. All attendees can view a shared computer screen, view meeting notes, and chat with other attendees. You can share your own screen and contribute meeting notes only if the host makes you a presenter.

To take part in a meeting you must have a browser, a copy of the Adobe Flash Player plug‑in (version 8 and above), and an Internet connection. When you share your screen for the first time, you will also be prompted to download the Adobe Acrobat Connect Add‑in.