Using the 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:

 

 

- General meeting info: Conference topic, Conference ID, Password.

- Date and time of the meeting:

- The Start time subsection: Indicates the date and time of starting the conference.

- The End time subsection: Indicates the date and time of ending the conference.

- The pop-up window of selecting the time-zone.

 

- Conference mode: Sets the mode of the scheduled meeting.

 

- Discussion mode: All the meeting participants can speak simultaneously. This mode is used for most of

work discussions.

- 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.

- Webinar: All the meeting participants see and hear only the presenter, while the presenter and the

moderator can see all the participants.

- Seminar: The meeting participants can see and hear only the presenter, while the presenter and the

moderator can see each participant.

 

- Video settings:

- Video quality level: High, Good, Middle, Low.

- Quality of video from client: Default, High (HD), Medium (VGA), Low (QVGA).

 

- Audio settings:

- The Active microphones numeric field: The number of microphones of participants which can be

enabled simultaneously. This parameter depends on the license and the tariff.

 

- Additional settings (checkboxes):

- Slave conference: If this checkbox is enabled, this meeting gets the status of the slave of the main (host)

meeting. The slave meeting can be launched only together with the main meeting.

- Prevent joining without conference owner: Nobody can join a meeting until the meeting owner joins it.

- Conference recording: If the license allows it, the meeting can be recorded. By default this option is

disabled.

- Chat premoderation: Before getting to the Chat window, all chat messages are first approved by a

moderator.

- Broadcast: If this checkbox is enabled the meeting runs in the broadcasting mode. On selecting this

option a dialogue window with broadcast parameters opens:

 

 

- More: Options for restricting the channel bitrate and the client type. On enabling this checkbox, some

new settings appear.

- Connect terminals/phones: If this checkbox is enabled, SIP terminals and phones can be connected to

the meeting. On selecting this option, some new settings appear.

- Periodicity: On selecting this option, new additional settings appear. They allow you to set up automatic

start of the conference with a certain periodicity of starting this meeting. These are:

 

• The Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly radio group.

• The Repeat every... day numeric field.

 

- After filling in the form you can click one of the following options:

- The Save as a template link: Saves the current settings as default settings for new scheduled meetings.

- The Start conference now link: Starts immediately a meeting with the current settings.

- The Schedule conference button: Schedules a meeting with the current settings for the date/time indicated in

the Start time option.

- Status: The status of the meeting in the table row: online: or offline .

- Manage: Contains the following icons:

: Enter this meeting (only for a scheduled meeting).

: View the information about this meeting.

: Edit this meeting options (only for a scheduled meeting). After clicking this button the Edit

conference form for this meeting opens.

: Delete the meeting. After clicking this button the Delete this conference? confirmation window

appears on the screen.