Web Conference Guide

4.1 What can you do?

As an Attendee you will be able to:

• Join and leave conferences
• Chat with other Attendees and Presenters.
• View a list of names of all users who are in the conference, in the Attendees Window
• See any shared applications
• Watch Slide Shows
• Watch as Presenters create diagrams on the Whiteboard
• Watch as Presenters annotate slides or shared applications.

4.2 Chatting

Chatting, in a Vesta DataXchange conference, is carried out in text using the pane in the Discussion Area window (at the left of the screen, above the user list). This pane contains a record of Chat messages that have been sent during the conference.

If you cannot see the Discussion Area window, select View on the Conference Desktop menu and choose Discussion Area. You can change the vertical size of the Discussion Area by dragging the divider between it and the Roster.

Messages prefixed by “Vesta DataXchange” have been sent automatically (for example, to record the conference start time). Other messages are those that have been sent by users in the conference, and are prefixed by the name of the sender.

4.2.1 Sending messages to all people in a conference

To chat with other people in the conference, follow these steps.

• If All Users is not currently displayed in the Send To box in the Discussion Area, select it.
• Type your message in the Message box.
• Press Enter on your keyboard.

4.2.2 Sending private messages to one other person in a conference

To send a private message to one person in the conference, follow these steps.

• Choose that person’s name from the Send To box in the Discussion Area.
• Type your message in the Message box.
• Press Enter on your keyboard.

Please note that if you later wish to send a message to all of the users, you must choose All Users from the Send To box.