Manage attendees in Attendees pod

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Last updated on Jan 21, 2025

Manage attendees and their permissions in an Adobe Connect meeting.

Adobe Connect allows hosts and presenters to manage meeting attendees, roles, and permissions using the Attendees pod.

Hosts can change attendee roles, promote or demote participants, customize display names for better organization, manage the list of attendees, and manage breakout rooms. Additionally, hosts can grant enhanced rights to attendees, allowing them to control specific pods without being promoted to a presenter role. You can also view attendees' real-time engagement from the Engagement Dashboard pod.

The following topics are covered in this article:

Change attendee roles

Change the role of any attendee in the attendees pod, promoting and demoting attendees as required.

Select any attendee in the attendees pod.

Bulk selection

You can select multiple attendees and peform actions in bulk by selecting an option from the menu.
Select Change role and then select either Make Host, Make Presenter, or Make Participant to change the role of the attendee. You can also drag and drop attendees to different roles.

Change attendee names

By default, the display name of the attendees is the one the attendee has used when entering the session

As a host, you can customize the display name of attendees in the Attendees pod.

Right-click on any attendee in the Attendees pod.
Select Edit display name.
Type the attendee's name in the Edit display name dialog box.
Select Save.
The changed name will be reflected in the Attendees pod.

Icons on the Attendees pod

Icon	Description
Globe	Participant is on desktop browser.
Phone	Participant is on mobile app.
Globe + Phone	Participant is on mobile browser
Mic	Status of the microphone.
Speaking	Status of active speaker.
Reactions	Five icons for various reactions.
Status	Raise hand, agree, disagree
Telephone	Joined using telephony.

Assign enhanced participant rights

Hosts can grant enhanced rights to participants over selected pods without promoting them to the presenter or host role.

Right-click on any attendee in the attendees pod.
Select Enhance rights.

Enhance rights of Attendees
Select the pods that you want the participant to control. You can give enhanced rights to various pods, such as Share pod, Notes pod, Files pod, Weblinks pod, Poll pod, Q&A pod, Quiz pod, and Whiteboard in Share pod.

Enhance rights for a pod

Remove an attendee from a session

Follow the steps to remove an attendee from a session:

Right-click on any attendee in the attendees pod.
Select Remove.

Clear attendee status

Hosts and participants can view and change attendees' statuses in the attendees pod. Participants can also clear their status at any time during a meeting. View the Status in attendees pod for more information.

Manage breakout rooms

Breakout rooms in Adobe Connect allow hosts to create smaller groups for private conversations or team activities, improving interaction during online sessions, training sessions, or virtual classrooms.

View Create breakout rooms and Conduct breakout rooms for more information.

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