How do I use the Managed Telephony Unified Meeting?

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Cogeco Managed Telephony Unified Meeting provides audio and video conferencing over the internet, including web collaboration features such as screen sharing, whiteboard annotations and presentation capabilities.

If you've set up Managed Telephony Unified Desktop with Managed Telephony Unified Meeting, you can invite any of your contacts to join you in a meeting, even if they don't have Managed Telephony Unified Desktop.

Finding Your Password

You'll need your Cogeco Managed Telephony Customer Portal user number and password to start using Managed Telephony Unified Desktop and Managed Telephony Unified Meeting. If you don’t have this information, call us on 1-855-494-5853.

Downloading and installing the software

First, download Managed Telephony Unified Meeting for Desktop.

Once you've logged in, click on the Download link under Support (bottom right of the Portal interface) to download and install the Managed Telephony Unified Desktop app.

When prompted, save the file, then find the file in your downloads folder and open it to begin the installation process.

Setting up a Managed Telephony Unified Meeting

You can choose to start an instant meeting from Managed Telephony Unified Meeting for Desktop, from the Managed Telephony Customer Portal dashboard, or directly from your email client’s calendar.

Within Managed Telephony Unified Desktop, you can send a meeting invitation the following ways:

  • Using the Managed Telephony Unified Desktop File menu
  • From your Contacts list or while viewing a contact’s details
  • While chatting to a contact using instant messaging
  • When you're on a call

When you start a meeting, you'll be prompted to select the contacts you want to invite to join you in the meeting. You can then start the meeting and contacts can simply click on the invitation to join your meeting.

Scheduling a meeting

You can use Managed Telephony Unified Meeting to schedule a one-off or recurring meeting.

Select the Schedule a Meeting option from Managed Telephony Unified Desktop, from the Managed Telephony Customer Portal dashboard, or directly from your Outlook calendar to launch the Schedule a Meeting window. Here, you can set the date, time, and length of the meeting, and specify various other audio and video settings for the meeting.

Then click Schedule to open the meeting invitation and select the participants you want to invite to the meeting before sending the invite. The Managed Telephony Unified Meeting is added to the participant’s calendar.

Joining a meeting

You can join a Managed Telephony Unified Meeting by clicking on the on-screen invitation or by opening the Meeting URL in a browser.

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Exploring the Meeting window

While a meeting is in progress, you will either see the participant toolbar or the host toolbar at the bottom of the Meeting window.

Participant toolbar:
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Host toolbar:
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Setting up your audio

Use the Microphone icon to toggle your microphone on mceclip5.png and off mceclip6.png.

Click on the ‘Audio’ button to change your audio options.

  • Select Join Audio to allow Managed Telephony Unified Meeting to use either your phone or your computer’s microphone and speaker.
  • Select Leave Audio to prevent Managed Telephony Unified Meeting from using your speaker and audio device.

Use the Video icon to toggle your video on mceclip7.png and off mceclip8.png.

Accessing the Settings menu

Click on the Settings button to access the Settings menu, where you can set up and test your microphone, speakers, and video. You can also use the Settings menu to specify where to save recorded meetings and to access additional application settings.

Inviting contacts to join you in the meeting

  1. Click on the arrow next to Participants and select Invite to bring up the invite window.
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  2. From here you can send an email to the requested invitee, which includes the meeting invite link, or you can copy the link to send it manually.
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Viewing meeting participants

Click on the mceclip11.png Participants button to see who's joined the meeting. You can access the following options from the Participant window.

The Raise Hand button lets the meeting host know you have something to say.

The Rename allows you to change your display name.

If you're the meeting host, click on Manage Participants to access the Participants window. Meeting hosts can use the following additional options to manage participants:

  • Mute All, Unmute All, or Mute to mute a specific individual
  • Lock Screen Share allows you to prevent meeting attendees from sharing their screen
  • More allows you to access additional options, including:
    • Mute on Entry - mute all attendees as they join the meeting
    • Play Enter/Exit Chime - play a chime when a participant joins or leaves the meeting
    • Lock/Unlock Meeting - no new attendees can join if the meeting is locked

The following icons provide additional information about each attendee:

  • mceclip12.png The participant is currently speaking
  • mceclip13.png The participant’s microphone is on
  • mceclip14.png The participant’s microphone is muted
  • mceclip15.png The participant’s video camera is on
  • mceclip16.png The participant’s video camera is off
  • mceclip17.png The participant has raised their hand

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Sharing your screen

Click on the mceclip20.png Share Screen icon and choose the desktop or individual application window that you want to share.

Note: The Share Screen option may not be visible if the meeting host has selected Lock Screen Share.

Once you are sharing your screen with meeting participants, you will see the Screen Share toolbar.

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The Screen Share toolbar provides the following options:

  • Pause/Resume screen sharing
  • Share a New Window
  • Annotate your shared screen using a variety of shapes and highlight tools, including:
    • Mouse
    • Draw options (lines, shapes, and arrows)
    • Spotlight tool
    • Eraser to remove selected annotations
    • Undo, Redo and Clear annotation options

Note: The Annotate option may not be visible if the meeting host has selected to Disable Attendee Annotation.

  • Mute - toggle your microphone on and off
  • Stop/Start Video - toggle your video sharing on and off
  • More - access Chat, Record, Settings, and Audio Conference options.

Click mceclip22.png Stop Share to exit screen sharing.

Sending a message to meeting attendees

Click on the mceclip23.png Chat icon to open a Chat window and send a message to another meeting attendee.

Click on the Save Chat button to save the conversation to your local computer.

Recording your meeting

Click on mceclip24.png Record to start recording the meeting.

Click mceclip25.png Stop Recording to stop recording the meeting.

When the meeting ends, you will see a pop-up saying that the meeting recording is being saved and converted to mp4 format.

The directory containing the saved recording then automatically opens showing the recorded file, and the meeting will also appear in your list of recorded meetings within the Managed Telephony Unified Meeting application.

You can specify the location to save recorded meetings using the Settings menu.

Note: The Record option may not be visible if the meeting host has disabled recording for the meeting.

Leaving the meeting

Click on Leave Meeting to leave the meeting.

If you are the meeting host, click on End Meeting to end the meeting for all participants.

Additional meeting window options

  • mceclip26.png Enter Full Screen extends the meeting display to a full-screen display.
  • mceclip27.png Exit Full Screen exits the full-screen display.
  • mceclip28.png Gallery View displays the video for all meeting participants.
  • mceclip29.png Speaker View displays the video for the current speaker.

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