Meetings: Instructional Tips

Instructional Tips for Higher OR Lower Bandwidth Activities

• Save your Word documents and PowerPoint presentations as PDFs before uploading them to Meetings. This will reduce the amount of time Meetings will need to process and covert your file(s).
• Several Meetings features are unavailable when you choose to display an uploaded file. You will be unable to:
  • Share websites
  • Access hyperlinks embedded in a PowerPoint presentation
  • Demonstrate applications, such as Word or Excel
    

Instructional Tips for Screensharing (High Bandwidth ONLY)

Examples of How Screensharing is Utilized

• Sharing a website, for example:
  • to display your Sakai course
  • to display the Durham Tech website or library resources
  • to share another website resource
  • to walk your students through a publisher site
• Demonstrating an application installed on your device, such as:
  • Word (link to O365 info)
  • Excel (link to O365 info)
  • A webpage editor
  • AutoCAD
  • PowerPoint

  Other Instructional Tips

  • It is recommended that you open any applications and web sites you will need during your session in separate browser tabs before starting your meeting, so you can quickly transfer to them during your screen share.
  • 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:
  • If you want to display a PowerPoint presentation while screen sharing, you will need to open PowerPoint and display your presentation in the application.
  • When screensharing, a few Meetings features will be unavailable (or more difficult to use). You will be UNABLE to:
    • Display a file in the presentation area of Meetings
    • Write on the whiteboard
    • Share external videos (and audio content)
    • Create Breakout rooms
    • Access Captions
    • Access the Recording button
    • End the Meeting