WebEx MeetingCenter 6.2 Upgrade Announcement and Release Notes

Communique Conferencing is pleased to announce an upgrade to your MeetingCenter service. The new WebEx version 6.2 offers an updated user interface and access to enhanced features and functionality during meetings. Meeting follow-up is also more automated, thanks to our Note-taking and Transcript features. Finally, WebEx has also made substantial improvements behind the scenes. We've dramatically improved the reliability of our back-end infrastructure, increased our scalability, and improved our global performance.

Notes and Closed Captions
Notes enhances the meeting experience by supporting private notes or shared notes in the meeting. By providing Notes as part of the meeting manager, participants do not have to switch to a different window to record notes. Notes can have any format and can be saved as a text file.

• The option for Notes is selected in the Schedule Meeting wizard, or in the meeting by selecting Options from the Meeting menu.
• By selecting the All participants can take notes option, all participants can take their own notes on the Notes tab. Private notes are not shared, but can be saved as text by any participant.
• Selecting the Single note taker option provides a public set of notes which are recorded by the Note Taker and published as the official notes of the meeting. The Note Taker can save the notes at any time as a text file. Public notes are included in the meeting transcript. The Note Taker role is indicated in the Participants List by a pencil.
• Selecting the Closed Captions option provides a specific role for Closed Captionist, who transcribes audio into text and publishes the captions in the Closed Captions tab. The Closed Captionist role in the meeting is indicated in the Participants list by the CC icon.
• Information on obtaining the optional Closed Captioning service for your meeting is available on the Support page of your meeting service site. This service is also available in Meeting Center 5.0, and in Meeting Center 6.0 a specific role is created for the captionist.

• This feature generates an email addressed to all meeting participants, using the host's native email application. The body of the email includes basic meeting info, a list of all participants, and any public Notes or Closed Captions. Optionally, the host can choose to attach shared documents, polls, notes, or any other file attachment.
• The meeting transcript can be sent at any time by selecting Send Transcript... from the File menu. If a transcript has not been sent when the meeting is ended, the Host will be prompted to send one.
  

• The presenter sees an overall attendee ready indicator in the Participants list.
• Individual attendees see an indicator next to their name in the Participants list.
• At a glance: when the indicator is all green, it means that the current slide has been received. This applies to the overall indicator and the individual indicators.
• When the overall indicator is yellow, it means that the current slide has not been received by all attendees. The text description tells the host how many (6 out of 12, for example) have the current slide.
• Each square in the indicator shows at a glance what percentage of attendees have the current slide, in 25% increments. The host can hover the mouse over the overall indicator to see exactly what percentage of attendees have the currently slide.
• When an individual's indicator is yellow, it means that particular attendee has not received the current slide. Each of the 4 squares that is colored shows at a glance how much has been received, in increments of 25%. If more information is needed, then hovering the mouse over the indicator shows the exact percentage.
• The indicator only works for presentation sharing in this release.

• Attendee join/leave
• Attendee raise hand
• New chat
• New notes
• New presentation shared
• Slide change (but not annotation)
• Poll opened or poll results shared
  

• Each attendee that has an active Webcam on their PC will be listed in the Video section of the meeting center window. The presenter can select which Webcam video (presenter, host or guest) to display for all attendees to view in single-point video mode.
• Each participant can move the video display screen to another area of the meeting center so that chat, notes, and polling sections can display concurrently.
• Each Participant can view the Webcam video in full-screen mode, by selecting the full-screen option under the Webcam.
• Each participant can opt to freeze fame the video stream as needed throughout the meeting.
  

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