GoToWebinar is one of the best webcast tools mainly used to help businesses of all sizes by managing online conferences and engaging with clients and can be accessible for both web-browser and smartphones.  It offers a host of features including event management, webinar templates, video sharing, survey, and custom registration page. 

Learn what GoToWebinar can do for you

GoToWebinar offers unlimited cloud storage, video sharing, virtual events, video conferencing and GoToStage which allows users to host and record the webinar content.  It enables the user to promote their webinar with customized registration page, webinar invitation and automated email reminder. GoToWebinar also includes a few fun interacting features such as engagement dashboard, presenter webcams by inviting panelists, Polls and Surveys to engage the audience.

First lets understand what to expect from this software in a general overview.

Modules:

Channels and GoToStage

GoToStage is a video platform that collects organization content from their channel page and makes a one-page hub for publishing webinar recordings to viewers all over. It helps the users track their viewers who register before watching a video via email, Linkedln, Facebook and Google. It also allows users to track their numbers of viewers through recording reports.

Control panel

The most interesting feature of GoToWebinar for Windows and Mac is it enables the users access to all of its integration tools such as drawing tools, shared keyboard or mouse, multi-monitor screen sharing. GoToWebinar control panel has advanced features including, Mute/unmute option if users connected through built-in audio services, managing attendance for participant, sent chat messages to participant, recording the session and launch poll to ask attendees a question during a session. 

Mobile App

If you want to attend the session when you are on your go, then the GoToWebinar mobile application allows the attendee to join the Webinar from anywhere using Android and iOS devices just you need to download the GoToWebinar app. That means it allows the attendee to join the webinar directly from their smartphones and tablets.

Dashboard and launch polls

Streamlined dashboard enables the user to monitor their session at a glance with a quick view of duration of session, attendance, audience attentiveness, raised hands and questions to ask from attendees.  It also has the launch polls to ask questions in the Question pane from attendees during a session and enables the user or organizer to sort the question by flagging them with priority and assigning them to other panelists in the session.

Recordings

It's one of the top GoToWebinar features that offers the opportunity to record the live session and store the recording for attendees to view afterward. Recording in GoToWebinar also records the presenter’s screen, the audio conference and any shared application during the session. There are two options to record the session; the recording methods online and recording method local. 

Report and history

GoToWebinar allows the organizer to build reports of the webinar history, attendees and more. This tool is mainly used when the organizer needs detail for session comparison.  It can generate several different types of reports and export them in excel or CSV file format. Store a history of the session up to one year from its scheduled date so that the organizer can generate the report.

Accessibility

Few accessibility features are also included in GoToWebinar such as high contrast mode that enables the users with vision impairment or compromised vision and tag navigation that provides maneuver through elements in the software using tab key. Its Font size & color scheme helps with vision impairment and Dark theme mode helps to change the background with dark color.

Adobe connect is a versatile stage that is designed for training, webinar and meetings extraordinarily and securely. It creates immersive virtual experiences with storyboarding and engagement design capabilities. Adobe Connect includes advanced features of unlimited customizable meeting rooms, breakout sessions,  meeting recording, screen sharing, polling, central content library, user management, administration and reporting.

Learn What Adobe Connect can do for you

Adobe Connect is a single platform that is designed to reach out millions of individuals with auditory, visual and mobility impairments. Abode connects provide you a streamline experience of engaging your audience by creating an immersive virtual experience. And allows to plan, deliver and track pre-event and post-event workflow.

Basically, it is suite software for web conferencing, presentation, remote training and desktop sharing. It enables the organizer to organize all meeting rooms into pods and perform a specific role such as chat, whiteboard, note and more with each pod. Adobe connect includes adobe connect Webinar, Adobe connect learning and Adobe connect meeting in its application.

First lets understand what to expect from this software in a general overview

Modules:

Pods and layout

Pods are a functional Windows startup with a world of virtual experience design. Just you need to add name, position and size for the pods and then it automatically creates virtual storyboards called layouts.  It enables the user to make their own app using adobe connect new HTML SDK or allows choosing from their own extended customized app library.

Templates Persistence

It is one of the top features of Adobe Connect that offers to convert your perfect stage shared templates accessible to the team.  It enables users to make it easy, fast, step up and ensure experiences. Template also creates an unlimited number of persistent rooms per licensed user.  It allows hosts, presenters and participants to set up reusable rooms for polls, quizzes and content for a different audience or at a different time.

Drawing, sidebar and annotation

Streamline brings the attention of the participant to where you like by help of whiteboard or overlay color, text, shapes and annotation. Along with a virtual flipchart to let your participant do the same and jam together.

Asynchronous browse 

Asynchronous browsers allow instructors to keep the class moving forward when participants browse content at their pace. And it also enables participants to browse the Web Links Pod to push an URL open into all participants' screens. Launching a survey at the end of a session or sending learners an assessment or recording of the session can also be done in Adobe connect.

Topic, Moderate and Accessible chats

Allow the participants to engage with most relevant peer interaction by providing multiple chat instances on the stage named by a topic of interest. Its moderate chats use a Q & A Pod to have complete control over the participant identities, visibility of questions and answers. And also assign the right expert to manage hundreds of questions in large webinars in the room. 

Secure Access

Adobe Connects provides the built-in Multi-layered security for its virtual meetings, training and classrooms. The security in adobe connect means a complete security of hosts, participants and sensitive content shared in Adobe connects persistent rooms.