- Creating a Sametime meeting
Authenticated users can create, manage, and start meetings. This section describes the types of meetings and meeting modes and the steps on how start or create one.
- Joining a Sametime meeting
To join a Sametime meeting, you need a meeting link. The meeting link is sent from the meeting owner.
- Chatting with meeting participants
By default, the chat feature is enabled. You can communicate with all meeting participants using the chat function. Guest users can only access the chat room through the active meeting.
- Raising hands
By default, all meeting participants have access to the Raise hand feature. Toggling the hand is visible to all meeting participants. As a guest or authenticated user, you can raise and lower hands throughout the meeting to request to speak, answer a poll, or as a form of silent acknowledgment. Moderators can lower a user’s hand.
- Muting and unmuting my audio
Meeting participants can mute (
) and unmute (
) their microphones on demand. Sametime notifies users when background noise is detected and when users speak while being muted. When needed, moderators can disable the participants' microphones at any time without notification. Most devices have a dedicated mute button that is controlled separately. When using Sametime, users can utilize the web app microphone settings.
- Enabling and disabling my camera
All users can enable or disable their camera in a meeting. To lower bandwidth usage or to avoid distractions during a meeting, moderators can turn off active cameras. The video stream of users will be limited to the last few speakers. All other videos with their microphone are inactive or muted.
- Understanding screen share
By default, you can share your screen with all attendees during a meeting.
- Leaving a meeting
You can leave a meeting at any time. Leaving the meeting as a user does not impact the status of the meeting. Depending on moderator settings, the user can re-join the ongoing meeting. To leave a meeting, select
Leave 
.
- Choosing how participants are displayed
The participant list
allows you to view the meeting participants and perform group functions.
- Managing video quality
All meeting participants can change the meeting video quality from audio only to high definition depending on the quality of your connection. You can make changes to these settings at any time, and this only affects behavior on your meeting login.
- Changing my background
To hide your physical environment, you can add a filter to blur your surroundings or use an image to obscure your background. The Change background feature is accessible from the preview window and the in-meeting menu, which means you can modify your background before or during a meeting. Contact your administrator if this feature is unavailable.
- Sharing a video
- Viewing the meeting in full screen
You can expand the window of the meeting to fill the entire monitor screen.
- Copying a meeting link
You need the meeting link or name in order to join or access the meeting. To copy the meeting link, scroll over the bottom of the meeting window and select the three dots for the menu. Depending on the user type and access level, the following options are displayed on the More Actions menu.
- Adjusting the camera and microphone settings within the meeting
Users can make changes to their camera and microphone settings during a meeting. Scroll over the bottom of the meeting window and select the three dots for the settings. Select Settings. Depending on the user type and access level, the following options is displayed on the More Actions menu.