Live classroom (sometimes referred to as virtual classrooms, webinars or web-conferencing) allows real time communications in which multiple users can simultaneously interact with each other via the Internet to conduct meetings and seminars, lead discussions, make presentations and demonstrations, and perform other functions.

Live classrooms allow students and teaching staff to communicate synchronously using features such as audio, video, text chat, interactive whiteboard, application sharing, instant polling, emoticons, and breakout rooms.

There are many reasons for adopting the technology in your teaching in either blended or online units, including:

• enhance interaction
• synchronous
• engage actively in multiple locations
• increase social presence
• enhance student learning
• record meetings.

Adobe Connect is our primary live classroom system at the Australian Catholic University. There are two ways of creating and maintaining Adobe Connect 'meeting rooms' with advantages and disadvantages to both; these are outlined on the table below.

Once a Live Classroom is in session, the actions of running the session is the same whichever method is chosen.