Meetings: Instructional Tips

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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.
clicking the interactive tools button in Meetings to upload a file

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

Idea iconTip 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).
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 Higher Bandwidth ONLY

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

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:

    Idea iconScreensharing 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 web sites you will need in separate browser tabs
    • open any applications you will be demonstrating (for example, if you want to display a PowerPoint presentation, open PowerPoint and display the presentation on your computer's desktop

    Screenshare's Mirror Effect

    • After you End the Meeting (not Logout), your session's recording can be processed.
    • Usually, your recording will be available within a few hours, but at peak times, recordings may take at least 24 hours to become available. If it has been at least 24 hours and your recording has not appeared, contact sakaihelp@durhamtech.edu.

    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

    Learn More

    Learn More icon What can I do as a Moderator in a Meeting?

    Icon-LearnMore.png What can I do as a Presenter in a Meeting?

    Icon-Home.png Take me back to the Meetings Home page.