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.
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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)
- 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:
Presenter Activity Suitable for Higher Bandwidth ONLY (Screensharing)
To share your desktop or 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.
Using Chrome
- Share your screen to view a website or demonstrate an application
- Using Chrome web browser
(Choose: “Your Entire Screen”)
Using 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)
Returning to Meetings after Screensharing
After sharing a browser tab
When you are done sharing a website, return to Meetings by either closing the website's tab or clicking the Meetings tab.
After sharing an application on your computer
Your web browser will still be open behind your application. Close the application (or minimize it, if available).
- On the floating toolbar, click Stop sharing, or click the Monitor icon located below the presentation area.
- A message should display: "Screenshare has ended".
- The presentation area will display to your students
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What are some useful Instructional Tips for using Meetings?
What can I do as a Moderator in a Meeting?
Take me back to the Meetings Home page.
- Using Chrome web browser