Meetings: Presenter Features

The Presenter has the option to upload files for display during the session, as well as the ability to screenshare. However, both options cannot be performed at the same time, so the Presenter must plan ahead to determine which option will best suit the session’s activities. Consider your bandwidth connection when planning your Meetings activities.

Presenter Activities Suitable for BOTH Lower and Higher Bandwidth Connections

Whether you have lower or higher bandwidth, there are a number of activities that the Presenter can do in Meetings:

• Upload a Presentation (and upload multiple files and enable user download during the session)
  • Preparing a document or presentation as a PDF for use during a Meetings session (Warpwire video)
  • Control the slide navigation
  • Use the whiteboard
  • Enable multi-user whiteboard
• Start a poll
  • Use smart slides (PowerPoint slides created before the session)
  • Custom Polling (during the session)
  • Polling verbally
• Share an external video
• Users and Instructors can:
  • Move webcams in a live session
  • Make webcams display larger
  • View closed captions

Presenter Activity Suitable for Higher Bandwidth ONLY: Screensharing

If you want to share your desktop to display websites or software applications that are located on your computer, you will need to share your screen.
To successfully share your screen, you MUST use Chrome or Firefox and NOT a mobile device.

Chrome

• Share your screen to view a website or demonstrate an application
  • Using Chrome web browser
    (Choose: “Your Entire Screen”)
  

  Firefox

  • Using Firefox web browser
    (Choose “Entire Screen” [the last option] to share your screen OR you can share a specific web browser tab or a specific application application)
  

  Using Screenshare

  • When you share your screen, the presentation area displays a "mirror" of your desktop.
    This is normal, and both you and your students will see this effect until you display a web site or application on your desktop.
    
  • Moving from sharing your screen back to the Meetings session (to return to your presentation or manage users)
  • Ending your screenshare

  Instructional Tips

  Visit the Meetings Instructional Tips page to learn more about how you can implement lower and higher bandwidth activities in Meetings.