Meetings: Instructional Tips

Instructional Tips (for Higher OR Lower Bandwidth Activities)

Regardless of your bandwidth strength, you can click the Interactive Tools button, it looks like a plus ( + ) sign, to upload a file, poll your students, or share a YouTube video.

When you use the interactive tools feature, many activities are readily available to you:

• Displaying a file
• Polling students
• Writing on the whiteboard
• Creating Breakout Rooms
• Accessing the Record button
• Accessing captions
• End the Meeting

Tip for Uploading Files

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).

Features NOT Available When Presenting an Uploaded File

• Sharing websites
• Accessing hyperlinks embedded in a PowerPoint presentation
• Demonstrating applications, such as Word or Excel
  

Instructional Tips for Higher Bandwidth ONLY

When your bandwidth is sufficient (review Meetings bandwidth requirements), you will have the ability to share your screen in Meetings.

Screen sharing allows you to:

• share a website to:
  • display your Sakai course
  • display the Durham Tech website or Library resources
  • share another website resource
  • walk your students through a publisher site
• demonstrate an application installed on your device, such as:
  • typing something in Word or Excel
  • a webpage editor
  • AutoCAD

  Screensharing Tips

  To help your demonstration go smoothly, there are a couple of things you can do ahead of time before starting the screenshare:

  • open any applications you will be demonstrating
  • open any web sites you will need in separate browser tabs

  If you want to display a PowerPoint presentation while screen sharing, you will need to open PowerPoint and display the presentation on your computer's desktop.

  Screenshare's Mirror Effect

  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.
  

  

  Features NOT Readily Available When Screen Sharing

  The following Meetings features are not readily available when screen sharing during a demonstration:

  • Displaying a file in the presentation area of Meetings
  • Writing on the whiteboard
  • Sharing external videos (and audio content)
  • Creating Breakout rooms
  • Accessing Captions
  • Accessing the Recording button
  • Ending the Meeting

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