Share Presentation
In order to use this feature, you must turn it on in your Room Configuration Panel.
Presentation Sharing is available as a "beta testing" feature. Please experiment with it before using it in an important meeting so you will learn how to use it and to know its limitations.
When you are using the Share Presentation feature, you are publishing files from your own PC to our servers which are broadcasting those visuals to your guests. So Presentation Sharing uses much more bandwidth than the basic voice/follow-me browser, and text chat features. Therefore, it is important to limit the size of the PowerPoint files. Also, page-loading speed and voice quality may be affected by the number of participants, and definitely by their connection speed. So it will work best with smaller groups and high speed connections. Please let us know your observations as you test this feature.
Also please note, when you upload your presentations, it is automatically convereted to a smaller size, more suitable for sharing across the Internet. This process necessarily reduces heavy graphics, so keep that in mind as you create your presentations.
We would appreciate hearing from you to know how you are using it, if you find bugs (please provide as much detail and if possible screenshots), and other general comments that will help us make this feature work better.
Share Presentation allows you to share Microsoft Powerpoint presentations.
100MB of storage space is allocated per Meeting Room to store presentations.
To begin using Presentation sharing. Click "Share Presentation" within the Moderator Menu.
A small popup dialog will appear and you can upload a new presentation or select a previously stored presentation. In addition, you can delete previously saved presentations anytime.
To upload a presentation, click 'Upload', then select (from your PC) the presentation that you want to upload.
You will see a message that indicates your PowerPoint is being converted. Please wait for this conversion to be completed.
Starting a Presentation
To start a presentation, simply select it from the list (click on it) and then click 'Start'. This will begin the presentation sharing session.
There are a variety of ways to navigate the presentation. You can click the left mouse button to advance the presentation forward and click the right mouse button to go back a slide. You can use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. Or if you double-click on the slide, you will get a popup where you can select which slide you want to navigate to, which allows you to jump ahead or return to a previously viewed slide quickly and easily.
To stop the presentation, simply go to the Moderator Menu and click on "Share Presentation" again, which turns off the presentation.
Alternately, you may also view Powerpoint presentations that have been converted to Flash using tools like what is availble with http://www.dreamingsoft.com. While we do not support nor encourage this action, it is an option that is available.
If you are inclined to want to explore this option further, you might check out this excellent article about various Powerpoint to Flash Conversion Ttools.
However, the easiest way to show a powerpoint is to simply upload your PowerPoint file and let our server perform a conversion for you.