E-meeting Room Management - Creating a Room

Creating an e-meeting room
Once you have imported and/or created templates, you will need them to create a e-meeting room. Once logged in to the server with administrator privileges, click on the Administration link and then open the E-meeting section by clicking on the "E-meeting" link.

You will now see a list of active e-meeting rooms on your server. Click the "Rooms" link to see a list of available e-meeting rooms. At the bottom of this page, enter a room name and select the template that matches the bandwidth, security and seats model appropriate for your room. (See the Creating Templates section for more information)

H.323 suffix
To be used in conjunction with the E.164 gatekeeper dial out functionality. Normally this setting can be left blank.

Room Description
You will be prompted to give a room description. This room description will appear when users click the "info" link found next to the e-meeting room's name on the Manager. Give a thorough description along with the bandwidth settings used by the meeting room.

Related Info
The related info link gives you an opportunity to add a URL to the information added to the room description if you so wish. Choose a link related to your group, company or project page. Note, the URL must be in the http://www.yoursite.com/ format if you choose to use this feature.

Contact Info
You will then be prompted to add your name, e-mail and phone number. Add the "room" owner's information here. This will help users contact the room responsible if the room has been locked or if a problem occurred when joining the meeting room.


Access
An emeeting room can be restricted to only allow access to certain users. You can also give selected users or groups of users different privileges within a room.

Moderator Screen Shot

Moderator Unrestricted plus possibility to kick and lock. Ability to upgrade and downgrade other users' roles during a meeting.
Presenter Unrestricted without ability to downgrade / upgrade users.
Attendee Only send public audio, video and chat and use Telepointer to point.

Listener

Listen only, no possibility to send any information to the other participants.

The Public Rooms setting allow you to set the default level for users not logged into the system (anonymous users). If you only want to allow authenticated users, select the "Private room that requires login" setting.

Giving access to all authenticated users is not currently supported.

Other Student and Listener restrictions:

  • Web slide distribution
  • Creation and edit of wb pages.
  • Open/import/paste/sharing in wb pages
  • Lead page changes
  • VCR recording and playback
  • Telepointer tool and whiteboard scrolling to telepointer
  • Use of private audio and chat
  • Private communication with Student and Listener restrictions for all roles.

Enabled
An enabled room will make the room available immediately. UN-checking the enable box will keep the room in a hidden state, making it unusable for the time being.

Click Finish and Return to continue.

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Once you have created meeting rooms, you can, from the available meeting rooms page, modify existing rooms, remove rooms and sort the room list according to various characteristics. Your modifications may now override template characteristics, for advanced fine-tuning.

Active Meetings
From the Active meetings link found under the main E-meetings section, you will be able to:

  • View the meeting bandwidth usage.
  • Lock a room
  • Close a room
  • Get a participant overview
  • Send an "administrators" message to one, many or all participants.
  • Get node details for the load created by a specific active meeting.



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