Meetings: Instructional Tips

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Instructional Tips (for Higher OR Lower Bandwidth Activities)

Features Available When Presenting an Uploaded File

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Uploading Tip

Idea iconSave 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).
Convert Word documents and PowerPoint presentations into PDFS

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 Screensharing (High Bandwidth ONLY)

Features Available When Screensharing

Features available when screensharing: sharing websites, accessing hyperlinks, demonstrating applications.

Examples of How Screensharing is Utilized

  • Sharing 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
  • Demonstrating an application installed on your device, such as:

    Screensharing Tips

    Idea iconTo 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

    Idea iconIf 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.

    Features NOT Available When Screensharing

    The following Meetings features are not readily available when screensharing 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