Polycom 8 manual Controlling the Lecture Mode, Presentation Mode guidelines

Chapter 5 - Monitoring an On Going Conference

Controlling the Lecture Mode

The Lecture mode includes several lecturing options which can be enabled or disabled during an On Going conference.

If the Lecture Mode is enabled for this conference during the conference definitions, the conference switches to the Lecture Mode as soon as the lecturer connects to the conference. If Lecture Mode was not enabled, you can still enable and disable it during the On Going conference. During the conference, another participant can also be selected as the lecturer.

With Continuous Presence conferences you can select an additional lecturing mode - the Presentation Mode.

In the Presentation Mode, the system automatically displays the active speaker full screen on all the conference participant monitors while the layout of the current speaker displays the previous speaker of the conference. When another participant starts talking, the Presentation Mode is cancelled and conference returns to its predefined video layout.

Presentation Mode guidelines:

•Presentation Mode is available with:

—Auto Layout

—Same Layout

—During Conference on Port (COP) conferences.

•In a COP conference, when the speaker becomes the conference presenter, the conference layout is automatically set to 1x1 (full screen) and all participants including the active speaker view this layout.

•If the speaker is an Audio Only participant (in a video conference), the Presentation Mode is disabled for that participant.

•Video Forcing apply while the conference is in normal speaker mode. The video forcing works in the same way as in Lecture Mode when Presentation Mode is activated (only the lecturer can set the video forcing and it applies only to the conference layout).

•Since Presentation Mode is available only in Continuous Presence conferences it cannot be selected for Operator conferences.

•Presentation Mode not available in Software Continuous Presence conferences.

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