Using Glow Meet

This help sheet is a summary of the more extensive Glow Meet Training Guide which is available from the ‘Training Materials’ tab on Glow Scotland. Creating a Meeting Room

  1. Add the Glow Meet web part from the Virtual Server Gallery.
  2. In the Glow Meet web part click Create Glow Meet room.
  3. Give your meet room a name and description
  4. Leave the seats as ‘Silver’.
  5. Click Create Glow Meet room.
  6. Change the options later by returning to Configure Glow Meet room.

Joining a Glow Meet room

  1. In the Glow Meet web part click Join the Glow Meet.
  2. A File Download message will appear. Click Open. The file may take some minutes to open. If a security alert is displayed, click Run or Trust to confirm that you want to run the application.
  3. The meeting room window will now open.

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  4. Click on the whiteboard icon

The audio and video controls

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  • Camera: If you have a webcam attached to your computer, click the camera icon to be seen by all other participants in the meeting room.
  • Speaker: Click the speaker icon to hear other participants speaking. Switch off to mute others. Slide the volume control to an appropriate level.
  • Microphone: By default the microphone works in ‘walkie-talkie’ mode: press and hold the microphone icon to speak to other participants, release when you have finished speaking. If you wish to have the microphone switched on for long periods, hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard and click the microphone icon once. Click again to return to ‘walkie-talkie’ mode.

The chat area The chat area allows text messages to be displayed to other participants in the meeting room. Type a message in the text field, then press Return/Enter on the keyboard. The chat area also shows event messages when someone joins or leaves the room. To clear all messages in the chat area, click Edit on the menu bar and then Clear Messages.

The text tools GC499 3 Entering text

  1. Click the ‘Text typing’       icon.
  2. Click on the whiteboard area. A text box will appear.
  3. Enter text into the text box.

Changing the font, size and colour of text

  1. Ensure the cursor is in the text box.
  2. Click on the ‘Select font’ icon.
  3. The Font menus will open. Click on the down arrows to change the font type, style and size of text. Click the ‘Select font’ icon again to close the menus.
  4. Click on the ‘Select colour’ icon.
  5. The colour palette will open. Click on a colour to select or use the sliders to create other colours. Click the ‘Select colour’ icon again to close the palette.

Moving text

  1. Click on the ‘Select an object’ icon.
  2. Click on the text to select it, then hold the mouse button down to drag the text around the screen.

Deleting text

  1. Click on the ‘Select an object’ icon.
  2. Click on the text to select it, then press Delete on the keyboard to delete.

The drawing tools The drawing tools can be used to draw images and diagrams directly on the whiteboard and are also very useful for adding to imported documents. GC499 4

  1. To use a drawing tool, click on the appropriate icon.
  2. On the whiteboard click and hold down the mouse button and draw the desired shape. Release the mouse button to complete the shape.
  3. To modify the shape, click on the ‘Select an object’ icon        then click on the shape.
  4. The shape can now be moved or deleted or the colour changed.
  5. The line width of the shape can be changed by clicking on the ‘Line width’    icon.

Saving a whiteboard document On the menu bar click File, then click Save. On the sub-menu click Save to save the entire whiteboard document or Save Page to save only the page currently displayed. Enter a name for the file and click Save. Leaving a Glow Meet session Click File and then Exit. Alternatively click the cross in the top right hand corner of the meeting room window. Click Yes to confirm that you want to close the meeting room window and exit.

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