Managing meetings using in-call controls in the Pexip apps

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Here's how to share your screen with others in the meeting:

1. Select .

2. Choose what to share:

   • Desktop app users see Share your entire screen or an Application window * Windows 10 users may only see the option to share the entire screen, this is due to a limitation in Windows 10..
   • Web app users also have the option to share a tab from the browser they're in.
3. If your VMR window partially collapses, you can still see controls to stop the presentation, restore the window, mute the mic, or disconnect.
4. To stop sharing, select .

You can also:

• Select either the VMR room or the shared screen to make it the main window (which doesn't halt the screen-share).
• Select and drag the VMR room window to prevent it from blocking your view of the presentation.

Dial pad

When joining a VMR that only has host PIN set, you enter the lobby immediately and an audible prompt invites users with a host PIN to enter the PIN. If you have the host PIN, go to the dial pad and enter it. This admits you and anyone waiting in the lobby into the VMR and you can start the meeting ahead of the room owner joining.

When joining a VMR that has both host and guest PINs set, you see a prompt to enter a PIN and join the meeting. Note that, if you have joined the VMR using a guest PIN, you can't subsequently enter a host PIN using the dial-pad. In such a situation, disconnect from the call and re-join with host PIN.

Full screen on/off

You can switch full screen on and off using this button. Another way of toggling is by double-clicking somewhere in the app.

Display chat

Select Display chat and the messages pane appears where you can view and enter messages during the call. You can use it to share links or help others with mic issues, for example. To retain privacy and confidentiality from one meeting to the next, each participant sees only those messages posted after they joined a room, so messages can be seen by all participants currently in the VMR.

Float window on top on/off

Device settings

During the call, you can change which devices you're using but not the call quality setting. To change the call quality you need to exit the meeting and rejoin.

Lock room * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

For extra security, after all invitees have joined a call, room owners and company administrators can choose to lock the room. When a room is locked, any participants who try to join the VMR are held in the lobby until they enter the host PIN, or a host endpoint participant, the room owner or a company administrator lets them in by unlocking the room. If you are using one of the Pexip apps you can also admit individual participants, one-by-one, without having to unlock the entire room (and thus let everybody in).

See Locking a VMR for more information.

Admit a participant from the lobby * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select to see a list of participants currently in the meeting, plus at the top of the list, those participants who are waiting in the lobby.
2. Find the participant you want to admit into the conference and select the admit button .

Invite someone by dialing * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select the icon.
2. For each internal contact or VTC system, type their name at the prompt and select next to the matching entry.
3. For each external participant enter their video address and select .

4. Select Dial to immediately invite the added person/VTC system to join you in your VMR.

   

See Saving and retrieving external video addresses for more information.

Invite someone by sharing a link * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select .
2. Select Share link to the room.
3. Select Copy link if the recipient(s) will join via browser, and then send the link via your preferred method.
4. Select Advanced room info if the recipient(s) may use one of the other methods. Select Copy to place the instructions on the clipboard, and then paste and send the link via your preferred method.
5. Alternatively, to use a local email client, select Invite by email to send the full joining instructions via email directly from the app.

Show Participants

From the top-right corner select to see a list of participants currently in the meeting. (This feature is available immediately if the room you're joining has no PINs, otherwise it is available after a host or room owner has joined.)

Copy Advanced room info * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

From the top-right corner select and then select menu. Select Advanced room info and you can now paste the full joining details into an email, for example.

Mute a participant's microphone * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select to see a list of participants currently in the meeting.
2. Find the participant whose mic you want to mute and select the adjacent mute microphone button .

Disconnect a participant * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select to see a list of participants currently in the meeting.
2. Find the participant you want to disconnect and select the adjacent disconnect button .

Mute all * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select to see a list of participants currently in the meeting.
2. Select Mute all.

Disconnect all * After logging in, this feature is available to personal VMR room owners and company administrators.

1. From the top-right corner select to see a list of participants currently in the meeting.
2. Select Disconnect all and you are prompted to confirm.
3. Select Disconnect all again. This disconnects all participants.

Mute/unmute microphone

From the toolbar below the main video window, select Mute microphone and others can no longer hear you, but you still hear them.

Select Unmute microphone and other participants now hear you speaking again.

Disconnect

Disable/enable camera

From the toolbar below the main video window, select Disable camera. Other participants can no longer see you, but you still see them.

Select Enable camera and other participants can see you again.

Hide self-view / Show self-view

Hover your mouse over the self-view window and the Hide self-view button appears.

Select Hide self-view and the self-view window is replaced by which you can select if you want to reinstate the self-view window.

Re-position self-view

Select the self-view window and drag it to a different place on your screen. This can be useful when someone else is presenting.