Participant and Conference Level Operations

Operators can perform functions on conferences that affect individual participants or can affect the conference on the whole.

Participant Level Operations

The following operator actions are performed at the participant level:

•Make dial-out connections

•Change the participant connection type (dial-in/dial-out)

•Disconnect and reconnect participants

•Name undefined dial-in participants

•Change the properties of a disconnected participant

•Designate a participant as an Exclusive Speaker

•Designate a participant as a VIP

•Control the participant's listening and broadcasting volume

•Mute or un-mute a participant

•Modify user defined parameters for the participant (MGC Manager only)

•Move a participant to an operator conference (attended conference only)

•Move a participant to the home conference (attended conference only)

•Place a participant on-hold (attended conference only)

For management operations performed during an Attended conference, see Chapter 7, “Attended Conferencing”.

The following operator actions are performed at the conference level:

•Add new participants

•Mute dial-in participants upon their connection to the conference

•Add remarks during session

•Lock and unlock a conference

•Control Question-and-Answer sessions

•Conduct Voting sessions

•Place a conference on hold

•Modify the conference general parameters (MGC Manager only)

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