Business Apps – Communicator – Initiating My Room Sessions

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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.