Features of Video Conferencing Whiteboards
Video conferencing is an invaluable business tool that allows people to have the in-person meeting experience without having to travel physically to the meeting. Video conferencing whiteboards are modeled to look and give the same experience to people in different geographical regions using their computers as when they are actually gathered together in a central conference room. This technology is another step toward a more flexible work environment.
Interactive
When people enter a video conference, the whiteboard will appear on their computer screen. Not only can people view what the conference host is putting on the whiteboard, but also the conference participants can type, draw, highlight and load graphics or documents onto the whiteboard during the conference.
Once a participant has entered something on the whiteboard, the other conference participants can modify, add to or highlight the contents. People can take turns or do their work simultaneously.
Lock Function
The conference host can lock the modify feature, so that the conference participants cannot modify, but can only view the whiteboard. The whiteboard, when used in this manner, functions more like an overhead projector.
Save Function
You can save any work that was done on the whiteboard, so that you can work on the whiteboard and later edit its contents prior to the video conference. You can also distribute the saved material to other employees.
Multiple Pages
You are not limited to the main screen. You can work with several pages of material on the whiteboard.
Application Sharing
The participants in the video conference can all interact with a software program that one computer is running, if they have that particular software or not. They can actually use the software that they don't have on their own computer during the video conference. For example, if the person running the application selects the option to share, everyone can use the particular features of his program. The option to stop sharing can be utilized at any time.
Chat Feature
Chatting is actually text messaging to one another during the conference. It is used in case the audio goes out or in case people two people need to have a private discussion during the video conference. Chats can be saved for future reference, similar to an email.
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