Polycom 2000/4000 manual Lecture Mode Monitoring, When enabled, the following rules apply

Polycom RMX 2000/4000 Administrator’s Guide

Content Broadcast restriction is enabled by setting the

RESTRICT_CONTENT_BROADCAST_TO_LECTURER system flag to ON. When set to OFF (default) it enables all users to send Content.

When enabled, the following rules apply:

•Content can only be sent by the designated lecturer. When any other participant tries to send Content, the request is rejected.

•If the RMX user changes the designated lecturer (in the Conference Properties - Video Settings dialog box), the Content of the current lecturer is stopped immediately and cannot be renewed.

•The RMX User can abort the H.239 Session of the lecturer.

•Content Broadcasting is not implemented in conferences that do not include a designated lecturer and the lecturer is automatically selected by the system (for example, in Presentation Mode).

Lecture Mode Monitoring

A conference in which the Lecture Mode is enabled is started as any other conference. The conference runs as an audio activated Continuous Presence conference until the lecturer connects to the conference. The selected video layout is the one that is activated when the conference starts. Once the lecturer is connected, the conference switches to the Lecture Mode.

When Lecturer View Switching is activated, it enables automatic switching between the conference participants in the lecturer’s video window. The switching in this mode is not determined by voice activation and is initiated when the number of participants exceeds the number of windows in the selected video layout. In this case, when the switching is performed, the system refreshes the display and replaces the last active speaker with the current speaker.

When one of the participants is talking, the automatic switching is suspended, showing the current speaker, and it is resumed when the lecturer resumes talking.

If the lecturer is disconnected during an Ongoing Conference, the conference resumes standard conferencing.

Forcing is enabled at the Conference level only. It applies only to the video layout viewed by the lecturer as all the other conference participants see only the lecturer in full screen.

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