Adobe Connect - Switch Interact

Install the Adobe Connect app:
Not recommended but possible: Use your Browser with 'Adobe Flash' installed.
- When you open the URL for the lecture streaming in your browser, the browser will ask you for 'Flash', if not already installed.
- In most browser you have to actively permit execution of the Flash plugin: e.g. click on the flash icon (might look like a broken image) and grant access.
- Caution: be aware, Adobe Flash is an outdated technology and has frequest security problems. Best is to use the Adobe Connect app.
- Linux: there is no Adobe Connect app. You have to install Adobe Flash Player
- Do a test: https://collab.switch.ch/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

Login Student

Open the Adobe Connect App and type the specific 'Adobe Connect lecture' URL.
Choose between personal AAI login (recommended¹) and guest login.

Speaker / Host

To use screen sharing: you have to install and use the Adobe Connect App (see above).
- Important: there is no Adobe Connect for Linux (only the browser version)
  NO SCREEN SHARE for linux >> NO SCREEN SHARE via Thinlinc!
  If you like to show your Thinlinc desktop, use your Windows or Apple Notebook, start screenshare on Adobe Connect App, open Thinlinc.
First time:
- Log in: https://collab.switch.ch with your UZH AAI login.
- Create a meeting.
  - Create a name for your meeting, e.g. the module number of your lecture.
  - Typically do not request registration or named user, let the meeting open for anonymous access.
  - Start Time and Duration seem to do nothing (meeting stays open until you delete it)
  - If you have more than 30 participants, please check https://help.switch.ch/interact/seminar-licence/.
Publish the meeting url to your students. In this example: https://collab.switch.ch/mat820

Streaming

Log in to the URL which you provided to your students - use your AAI login.
Make yourself the 'Presenter'
Share your screen.
Bring the application to the front, which should be shown to the students.

Handwriting

Write on tablet or convertible
Write on regular paper / with a regula pen and record with your phone.
- Use a phone holder https://www.amazon.com/slp/long-flexible-arm-phone-mount/d6g97tz3rg5s485 - check some product reviews first on youtube 'phone holder review'.
- Find a solution (idea/picture by Hairuo Yang):

Windows: Tablet

Use an App wich you are comfortable with. E.g. OneNote, EverNote, PenBook, ...
Start the screen share and bring handwriting app to the front.

iPad

The iOs Adobe Connect App can't share the screen (as far as we know).
Workaround: share the iPad screen to the Mac and on the Mac there is Adobe Connect running and shares the MacBook screen.
- https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/two-different-ways-to-mirror-an-ios-device-to-a-mac--cms-23533

Android

The Android Adobe Connect App can't share the screen (as far as we know).
Workaround: we share the tablet screen to the Notebook (Windows) and on the Notebook there is Adobe Connect running and shares the Notebook screen.
- Option 1 - Screen Stream
  - Requirement: Notebook & Tab should be in the same WLAN network. Do not use a WLAN guest network (might block direct traffic between devices)
  - Android: Install the App 'Screen Stream' and start it.
  - Android: Select 'Start'
  - Android: Get the provided IP:Port
  - Notebook: Start a browser and type the IP:Port in the location bar.
  - Android: Grant access.
  - Notebook: Select full screen.
- Option 2 - Airdroid
  - Requirement: Notebook & Tab should be in the same WLAN network. Do not use a WLAN guest network (might block direct traffic between devices)
  - Android: Install the App 'Airdroid' and start it.
  - Android: Select 'AirDroid Web.
  - Android: Choose Option 2: connect with IP address - get the provided IP
  - Notebook: Start a browser and type the IP in the location bar.
  - Android: Grant access on.
  - Notebook: Choose 'Screenshot' and select full screen.
- Option 3 - Skype / hello.math.uzh.ch > Video Chat
  - TBD
  - Video Quality might *not good enough* for handwriting.
  - For skype you need two accounts.
  - For hello.math.uzh.ch > Video Chat. Create a channel, place a call, connect
- Option 4 - MiraCast
  - Check that your tablet supports MiraCast.
  - E.g. Use Windows 10 - https://www.howtogeek.com/269093/how-to-cast-your-windows-or-android-display-to-a-windows-10-pc/
  - E.g. Samsung Galaxy S4 - https://allaboutgalaxys4.com/the-ultimate-guide-of-galaxy-s4-screen-mirroring/

Record your session

When you open the Adobe Connect Session, start recording.
After ending the session, stop recording.
Log in to https://collab.switch.ch and navigate to 'recordings'.

Footnote

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- * Use your Browser with 'Flash' installed: 

   * When you open the URL for the lecture streaming, the browser will ask you for 'Flash' if not already installed.
   * Additional, in most browser you have to actively permit execution of the Flash plugin: e.g. click on the flash icon.

 * ... or '''better''' install the app:
+ * Install the Adobe Connect app:
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- * Linux: there is no app. Install [[https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-latest-adobe-flash-player-on-ubuntu-18-04-linux/|Adobe Flash Player]]
+ * Not recommended but possible: Use your Browser with 'Adobe Flash' installed.
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- * '''Do a test''': https://collab.switch.ch/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
+   * When you open the URL for the lecture streaming in your browser, the browser will ask you for 'Flash', if not already installed.
   * In most browser you have to actively permit execution of the Flash plugin: e.g. click on the flash icon (might look like a broken image) and grant access. 
   * Caution: be aware, Adobe Flash is an [[https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/|outdated]] technology and has frequest security problems. Best is to use the Adobe Connect app.
   * '''Linux''': there is no Adobe Connect app. You have to install [[https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-latest-adobe-flash-player-on-ubuntu-18-04-linux/|Adobe Flash Player]]
   * '''Do a test''': https://collab.switch.ch/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
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- * Please log in with the URL given by lecture speaker. 

 * When you open the Adobe Connect URL choose between '''guest''' login and '''personal''' AAI login.
+ * Open the Adobe Connect App and type the specific 'Adobe Connect lecture' URL.
 * Choose between '''personal''' AAI login (recommended<<FootNote(The best is to use the '''personal''' AAI login. If this does not work, try the Guest login.)>>) and '''guest''' login.
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- * Publish the meeting url to your students.
+ * Publish the meeting url to your students. In this example: `https://collab.switch.ch/mat820`
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- * Bring the application, which should be shown to the students, to the front.
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- * Workaround: we share the iPad screen to the Mac and on the Mac there is Adobe Connect running and shares the MacBook screen.
 * Share iPad to !MacOs: https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/two-different-ways-to-mirror-an-ios-device-to-a-mac--cms-23533
+ * Workaround: share the iPad screen to the Mac and on the Mac there is Adobe Connect running and shares the MacBook screen.  
   * https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/two-different-ways-to-mirror-an-ios-device-to-a-mac--cms-23533
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- * Option !MiraCast
+   * Option 1 - [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.dvkr.screenstream|Screen Stream]]
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-   * Check that your tablet supports !MiraCast.
   * E.g. Use Windows 10 - https://www.howtogeek.com/269093/how-to-cast-your-windows-or-android-display-to-a-windows-10-pc/
   * E.g. Samsung Galaxy S4 - https://allaboutgalaxys4.com/the-ultimate-guide-of-galaxy-s4-screen-mirroring/
+     * Requirement: Notebook & Tab should be in the same WLAN network. Do not use a WLAN guest network (might block direct traffic between devices)
     * Android: Install the App 'Screen Stream' and start it.
     * Android: Select 'Start'
     * Android: Get the provided IP:Port
     * Notebook: Start a browser and type the IP:Port in the location bar.
     * Android: Grant access.
     * Notebook: Select full screen.
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- * Option [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl=en|Airdroid]]
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-   * Install the App 'Airdroid' and start it.
   * Select 'AirDroid Web.
   * Choose Option 2: connect with IP address - get the provided IP
   * On your notebook, start a browser and type the IP in the location bar.
   * Grant access on your Android.
   * On your notebook, choose 'Screenshot' and select full screen.
+     * Requirement: Notebook & Tab should be in the same WLAN network. Do not use a WLAN guest network (might block direct traffic between devices)
     * Android: Install the App 'Airdroid' and start it.
     * Android: Select 'AirDroid Web.
     * Android: Choose Option 2: connect with IP address - get the provided IP
     * Notebook: Start a browser and type the IP in the location bar.
     * Android: Grant access on.
     * Notebook: Choose 'Screenshot' and select full screen.
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- * Option Skype / hello.math.uzh.ch > Video Chat
+   * Option 3 - Skype / hello.math.uzh.ch > Video Chat
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   * For skype you need two accounts.
   * For hello.math.uzh.ch > Video Chat. Create a channel, place a call, connect
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     * Video Quality might *not good enough* for handwriting.
     * For skype you need two accounts.
     * For hello.math.uzh.ch > Video Chat. Create a channel, place a call, connect

   * Option 4 - !MiraCast

     * Check that your tablet supports !MiraCast.
     * E.g. Use Windows 10 - https://www.howtogeek.com/269093/how-to-cast-your-windows-or-android-display-to-a-windows-10-pc/
     * E.g. Samsung Galaxy S4 - https://allaboutgalaxys4.com/the-ultimate-guide-of-galaxy-s4-screen-mirroring/
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Institute of Mathematics - PublicMathWiki:

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Adobe Connect - Switch Interact

Login Student

Speaker / Host

Streaming

Handwriting

Windows: Tablet

iPad

Android

Record your session

Footnote