MACROMEDIA BREEZE Installation Manual - page 5

Resources for a Successful Breeze Deployment

Macromedia Breeze consists of three components: the Breeze Presentation platform, Breeze Training, and 

Breeze Live. Depending on the configuration purchased, you may be installing one, two, or all three of the 

components. The following are brief descriptions of the components:

Breeze Presentation platform

  The Breeze Presentation platform makes it possible to quickly create 

multimedia presentations that combine audio and video with slides and graphics.

Breeze Training

  Breeze Training lets you create courses, enroll students, and track and monitor student 

and course outcomes. 

Breeze Live

  Breeze Live lets you conduct online real-time meetings in which you can show multimedia 

presentations and broadcast live audio and video to participants. 

This chapter describes the variety of resources available to ensure successful deployment of the 

components within your organization.

Guide to documentation and additional resources

Macromedia Breeze contains a variety of media to help you learn how to use the components quickly. 

About the electronic manuals and online help

In addition to this installation guide, the following electronic manuals and online help systems are 

available:

Note: The relevance of these guides to users depends on the modules installed on the Breeze Presentation platform, 

the type of user (such as meeting content manager, information technology engineer, or course presenter), and the 

user’s Breeze account permissions.

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Using the Breeze Manager describes how to use the administration, presentation, and training 

components of Breeze. You can access Using the Breeze Manager documentation from the Breeze 

Manager Home page, and from the Help link in the Breeze Manager.

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Using the Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint describes use of the plug-in that allows users to create Breeze 

presentations from PowerPoint. You can access Using the Breeze Plug-In for Powerpoint 

documentation from the Breeze Manager Home page, and from the Breeze menu in PowerPoint by 

selecting Breeze > Help.

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Using the Breeze Publish Wizard includes procedures for publishing Breeze presentations created in 

PowerPoint to your Breeze server. You can access Using the Breeze Publish Wizard documentation 

from the Breeze Manager Home page, and from the Help button in the Publish Wizard.

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Breeze Live User Guide for Meeting Presenters includes information about using the Breeze web 

application to host online real-time meetings. The documentation includes procedures that 

demonstrate the simplicity of adding slides, Flash SWF files, images, live audio and video to your 

presentation.You can access Breeze Live User Guide documentation from the Breeze Manager 

Home page, and from the Help menu within a Breeze Live meeting room (when you enter as a 

presenter) by selecting Meeting > Help. 

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Breeze Live User Guide for Meeting Participants includes information relevant to users participating 

in an online real-time meeting. Breeze Live offers meeting participants a variety of options to make 

their experience truly participatory, including the ability to send messages and questions to 

presenters and to each other, and the ability to participate through live video and audio. You can 

access the Breeze Live User Guide documentation from the Breeze Manager Home page, and from 

the Help menu within a Breeze Live meeting room (when you enter as a participant) by selecting 

Meeting > Help.

To determine what documentation is relevant to your needs, consult the following table for guidelines:

Breeze user type

Recommended reading

Information technology (IT) engineer

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Breeze Installation Guide. 

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Review the system requirements in all other user 

guides.

Content managers in charge of overall content within 

Breeze, and who may add users and permissions

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Using the Breeze Manager

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Breeze Live User Guide for Meeting Presenters