User Guide for Using the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Desktop Connector Plug-in Release 5.6 with IBM Lotus Sametime
Participating in a Meeting

Table Of Contents

Participating in a Meeting

Muting Your Microphone or Speakers

Leaving a Meeting

Activating/Deactivating Video Channels

Changing the Video Layout

Requesting Permission to Speak

Viewing Meeting Information

Viewing the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Connector Help

Viewing Licensing and Version Information


Participating in a Meeting


Muting Your Microphone or Speakers

Leaving a Meeting

Activating/Deactivating Video Channels

Changing the Video Layout

Requesting Permission to Speak

Viewing Meeting Information

Viewing the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Connector Help

Viewing Licensing and Version Information

Muting Your Microphone or Speakers

You can mute your microphones and speakers only if a Moderator has not muted you.

Figure 4-1 Attendee Muted by Moderator

If you click the muted icon, this message displays: "You have been muted by the Moderator of the meeting." If you are muted by the moderator and want to speak, use the Raise Hand option to request to speak. The moderator can grant or reject your request to speak. For more information, see "Requesting Permission to Speak" section.

Procedure


Step 1 On the toolbar, click the Mute/Unmute Microphone icon to mute or unmute your microphone.

Step 2 On the toolbar, click the Mute/Unmute Speakers icon to mute or unmute your speakers.

Figure 4-2 Mute/Unmute Microphone and Mute/Unmute Speakers


Leaving a Meeting

See procedure in "Leaving a Meeting" section on page 4.

Activating/Deactivating Video Channels

See procedure in "Activating/Deactivating Video Channels" section on page 5.

Changing the Video Layout

See procedure in "Changing the Video Layout" section on page 6.

Requesting Permission to Speak

If you have been muted by the moderator, you can request permission to speak.

Procedure


Step 1 From the Actions drop-down list, select Raise Hand.

The Moderator can then decide whether or not to grant permission.


Viewing Meeting Information

You can view instructions for connecting to your meeting that you might want to send to other invitees.

Procedure


Step 1 Click the Display Video Meeting Information icon in the upper toolbar.

The Meeting Information screen displays.


Viewing the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Connector Help

See procedure in "Viewing the Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Connector Help" section on page 3-8.

Viewing Licensing and Version Information

See procedure in "Viewing Licensing and Version Information" section.