Business Apps – Communicator – Initiating My Room Sessions

Initiating my room sessions

My Room is your own personal virtual conference room where you can collaborate with your internal and external contacts. This guide reviews how to initiate a My Room session, call into your room, and how to share your desktop.

Initiating a my room session

To join My Room from your desktop app, follow these steps:

  1. Click on the My Room icon, and the My Room session automatically begins.

You can add a colleague to join your My Room Session, either by sending a chat to join your Room, or drag-and-drop available contacts into your room. Participants must accept your request to be added to your Room.

Request colleagues to join your My Room session:

  1. Select the Contacts icon.

Invite guest participants without an account:

You can invite outside guests into your My Room session. Guest can join a My Room session via invitation that provides the guest with a conference ID and pin. To invite a guest to a My Room session, from your My Room:

  1. Click on Copy My Room invitation link.
  2. Paste copied invitation to a chat or email.

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  1. Click on Email My Room Invitation, an email is initiated. Once guests receive the message, they can click on the link to join in your room.

Note: Guests outside the company do not have private chat capabilities, however; they can see the chat history of the active My Room session.

Calling into your my room session via voice call

To initiate a Voice Call with My Room Participants, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Call button, or the Call from Phone button. A call is initiated into your Conference Bridge.
  2. Your Conference ID and Moderator Pin will automatically be entered and your call is connected.

Sharing desktop in a my room session

While in a My Room session, follow these stpes to share your desktop:

  1. Click the Share Desktop button.
  2. Choose which Application you would like to share.
  3. Click Start Sharing to begin sharing your screen.

Note: Once in sharing mode, you can choose to pause, stop, or select another application to share or preview.