Controlling session activity as a participant

About this task

As a participant in a collaboration session you can ask for control of the session and also return control back to the master controller. To request and return control of the session, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. In the controller window click Open the collaboration panel for multiple controllers.
    The Collaboration control panel opens.
  2. Click the required option.
    Request control
    Use this option to request control of the collaboration session. The master controller receives the following message with the option to accept of reject the request. Do you want to accept the request from user XXXXX at aaa.aaa.aaa to get control

    where XXXXX is the user id of the participant who is requesting control and aaa.aaa.aaa is the IP address of the participants machine.

    If the master controller clicks Yes you now have control of the session.
    If the master controller clicks No, you receive the following message and do not have control of the session. Request for session control has been denied. Click OK to continue.
    Return control
    Use this option to return control of the session back to the master controller. You no longer have control of the session.

Results

Note: If the collaboration control panel is not open, click the Open the collaboration panel for multiple controllers icon in the controller window toolbar.