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A Personal Room is a virtual conference room that you can use whenever you need to meet with people. You are supplied with your own easy-to-remember link that never changes, so your colleagues always know where your meetings are held.
WebEx-enabled TelePresence users also have Personal Rooms, but only users who join from a WebEx meeting application can attend Personal Room meetings.
Your Personal Room has these three addresses that never expire. You and other people can enter the room using a phone, browser, or standards-based video conferencing system or application:
URL (https://sitename.webex.com/meet/username)
video address (username@sitename.webex.com)
call-in numbers, which connect you to the audio portion of a meeting only
Share your Personal Room address and ask people to save it to their "favorites." People can enter your room any time unless you lock it. Those who enter the room before you do wait in the lobby. Once your enter the room, a meeting starts.
Start a meeting without having to use the meeting scheduler.
All the functionalities such as content sharing, inviting additional people, reminders, and recording are available in the room, just as they are in a WebEx meeting.
Lock and unlock your room if you need privacy or have back-to-back meetings.
Mute and unmute anyone on the participant list, which shows everyone, including each video device or application used for joining the meeting.
All participants view the active speaker by default. Lock the video view of the person that you want everyone to see regardless of who is speaking.
Any participant can leave the room at any time. If the host leaves the room, the meeting ends for all participants. To leave the room without ending the meeting, assign the host role to someone else before leaving.
After your administrator enables Personal Room for you, you receive a welcome email message. Open the email message.
Access your Personal Room page to view information about your room or to start a meeting in your room from the browser.
Share information about your Personal Room ahead of time or just when you need to meet. Instant meetings that you start with Meet Now are now held in your Personal Room by default. You can change this option in Preferences.
Obtain the Personal Room URL from the meeting host who invites you. The room URL is in the format of https://sitename.webex.com/meet/username (The username is the host's username.).
If you're invited to a meeting in the host's Personal Room, you can quickly join the meeting by entering the host's username.
To start a meeting in your Personal Room from a browser, do so from your Personal Room page.
Tip | If you are signed in, enter https://sitename.webex.com/join/username to start a meeting right away. This URL is the same as your Personal Room URL, except that /join replaces /meet. |
Know your WebEx site URL. Better yet, bookmark your Personal Room URL, in the format of https://sitename.webex.com/meet/username, to complete this task more quickly.
If you have back-to-back meetings or need privacy in your Personal Room, lock the room. When the room is locked, no one can enter your room until you unlock it.
To lock or unlock the room, select Lock Room or Unlock Room from within the room.
To leave a Personal Room meeting, select Leave Room.
When the host of a Personal Room meeting leaves the room, the meeting ends for all participants. If you are the host and want to leave the room without ending the meeting, make another participant the host. The new host then takes over all the controls in the room.