Schedule a Conference tab

You can join a meeting using the Schedule a Conference menu tab. It contains advanced conference settings.

It has two parts: the upper part and the lower part. The upper part contains the following sections.

The Schedule a Conference menu tab

  1. General meeting info: Conference topic, Conference ID, Password.
  2. Conference mode: Sets the mode of the scheduled meeting.
    1. Discussion mode: All the meeting participants can speak simultaneously. This mode is used for most of work discussions.
    2. Role-based mode: All the meeting participants except the moderator are connected to the meeting as listeners. The moderator allows only selected listeners to speak. This mode is used to work with large audiences and allows you to arrange speakers and handle questions-and-answers.
    3. Webinar: All the meeting participants see and hear only the presenter, while the presenter and the moderator can see all the participants.
    4. Seminar: The meeting participants can see and hear only the presenter, while the presenter and the moderator can see each participant.
  3. Video settings:
    1. Video quality level: High, Good, Middle, Low.
    2. Quality of video from client: Default, High (HD), Medium (VGA), Low (QVGA).
  4. Additional settings (checkboxes):
    1. Prevent joining without conference owner: Nobody can join a meeting until the meeting owner joins it.
    2. Chat premoderation: Before getting to the Chat window, all chat messages are first approved by a moderator.
    3. Periodicity: Periodicity of starting this meeting (e.g. each Day/Week/Month/Year).
    4. More: Other options.
  5. The meeting date/time settings:
    1. Start time:
    2. End time:
    3. Timezone:
    After filling in the form you can click one of the following options:
  6. The Save as a template link: Saves the current settings as default settings for new scheduled meetings.
  7. The Start conference now link: Starts immediately a meeting with the current settings.
  8. The Schedule conference button: Schedules a meeting with the current settings for the date/time indicated in the Start time option.
  9. The lower part contains a table with the list of scheduled meetings:

    The lower part of the Schedule a Conference

    Most of the table fields have been described above, except for the following fields:
  10. Status: The status of the meeting in the table row: online (the green icon) or offline (the gray icon).
  11. Manage: Contains the following icons:
  12. Icon: Enter this meeting
    Enter this meeting (only for a scheduled meeting).
  13. Icon: View the information
    View the information about this meeting.
  14. Icon: Edit this meeting options
    Edit this meeting options (only for a scheduled meeting). After clicking this button the Edit conference form for this meeting opens.
  15. Icon: Delete the meeting
    Delete the meeting. After clicking this button the Delete this conference? confirmation window appears on the screen.