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Sharing a PowerPoint Presentation in a Webex Meeting

Slide show tools, to stop sharing a powerpoint presentation.

Meeting Hosts can upload and share a PowerPoint presentation during a meeting by using the Share File feature.

• Select Share File .
• Select Next .
• Browse your computer and open the PowerPoint file .
• PowerPoint will open. Webex will then load and display the PowerPoint in the meeting.

• Annotation – Displays the Annotation Tools
• Show Thumbnail – Displays a thumbnail for each slide, allowing for navigation by thumbnail.
• Go to Previous or Next Slide – Allows for navigation to previous or next slide. Also displays current slide number.
• Zoom In and Zoom Out – Allows for zooming into and out of a slide.
• Fit to Viewer – Resizes slide to fit the viewer if zoomed in or out.
• With a PowerPoint Presentation open, select the Share menu at the top of the screen.
• Select the Close button next to the PowerPoint title.

Think Outside The Slide

Options for sharing PowerPoint slides in Webex (including Presenter View)

Webex by Cisco is one of the legacy web meeting platforms and that shows in the options they offer presenters for sharing PowerPoint slides during meetings. Their approach is different from that of Microsoft Teams or Zoom and they offer fewer options that don’t offer as good an experience for the presenter and meeting attendees.

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The screen-based approach

Webex was built when the model for sharing content during a web meeting was to share your screen or don’t share at all. This shows in their sharing approach. You have the traditional option to share your entire screen which works the way you expect it to. The attendees see everything on your screen.

Webex also offers sharing an application in a meeting but it still works on the screen-based approach. The attendees see your entire screen but the only visible part is the application you are sharing. If your application only takes up a quarter of the screen, the attendees see three-quarters of the screen blank and your application small in one corner, as shown in this screen capture of an attendee screen while showing a PowerPoint Slide Show running in the PowerPoint window.

If another application is partially covering up part of the application you are sharing, that portion is greyed out for the attendees [ Late 2020 update: With the new version of Webex, a non-shared window on top of a shared window does not cause that part of the shared window to be greyed out. The audience continues to see the full shared window. ].

The application sharing is not window based. If you have two windows open for that application, say two PowerPoint files, when you share the PowerPoint application, the attendees will see both PowerPoint windows on the screen. The only way to hide one is to minimize it to the toolbar.

Webex allows more than one application to be shared at a time because it is just making more of the shared screen visible to the attendees. If one application is on top of the other, that’s what the attendees see on the screen. When sharing an application, you need to stop sharing that application if you don’t want the attendees to still see it. This is a different approach to switching what content you share with attendees in a meeting.

Webex also always shows your cursor on the screen, even if it is not within the window of the application you are sharing. As the cursor moves, the attendees see it moving.

(The Webex documentation on sharing content in a meeting is here if you want to learn more about the options.)

Sharing slides only

If you want to share your slides in Slide Show mode with the slides full screen and you can’t see anything else on the screen, the best option is to share your screen when in Slide Show mode. This will work well.

Presenter View with 1 screen

Unlike Teams or Zoom that offer ways to use PowerPoint’s Presenter View Preview mode to share your slides with the attendees while you see your notes, this is not possible in Webex. If you use Presenter View Preview and share the PowerPoint application, the attendees see all of Presenter View, including your notes and the next build/slide. Even the option of using Google Slides Presenter View in a browser ( video here ) does not work because Webex shares all browser windows when you share the browser app, including the one with your notes and slide previews. The only way to use Presenter View in Webex to share the slides with the audience while you see your notes is to have two screens. If you only have your laptop and don’t have room for a second screen, one option is to create a “ghost” second screen as I explain in this article .

Presenter View with 2 screens

If you have two screens ( article with options for adding an additional screen ) you can use Presenter View in Webex. Share the screen with the Slide Show on it and the attendees will see your slides only. The downside is that Webex puts the meeting controls at the top of the Slide Show screen because it is being shared. Attendees will see your cursor move to the controls and when the controls drop down that part of your slide is covered up with grey rectangles.

Sharing the Slide Show in the PowerPoint window

Another option for sharing slides in a virtual meeting is to use Reading View in PowerPoint where the slide show runs in the PowerPoint window. This can allow you to use a PDF of your notes on the screen beside the PowerPoint window ( article on using this method in Zoom ). As explained above, the attendees will see your slides in only a portion of the screen (as shown in the screen capture above) and they will see your cursor moving in the grey area of the screen as you scroll through your notes.

Seeing your notes on a second device

If you only have one screen or don’t want to use Presenter View, one option to consider is to create your speaking notes as a PDF ( article here ) and display them on a tablet that is positioned beside the screen. You can display the slides full screen in Slide Show so the attendees see a full screen slide and scroll through the notes on the tablet when speaking.

Sharing a file

Webex also offers an option to share a file that is not open already. You select the file from a file explorer style window. Unfortunately this also appears to be a legacy module because if you select a modern PowerPoint file it gives you a warning that animation and other dynamic content will not work if you use this share file option. This means that what gets shared may not be the same as what you have designed. This uncertainty rules out this option in my mind.

Use the Optimize for video option

Webex, like Zoom, has an option to set if you want to share video during the meeting. It is not mandatory, but the quality improves for the attendees. Not only does the quality of videos improve, but any animation that has movement or any Morph transitions improve dramatically as well. Without this setting, any motion animations or transitions appear jerky to the attendees. In the sharing dialog, select the option in the top left corner to “Optimize for motion and video”. I suggest you use this mode all the time as it will make any movement in your PowerPoint presentation appear smoother to the attendees. If you get a warning message about the resolution being reduced, I have found that you can safely dismiss it as the quality appears the same in my experience.

Desktop as a canvas

Because Webex uses the screen sharing approach, you may want to consider whether you want to use your desktop as a canvas as explained in this article and video .

Recommendations

Because Webex uses a screen-based approach to sharing, the best experience for attendees is when you share your screen, not an application. If you don’t need to see any notes, share the full screen Slide Show. If you want to see your notes in Presenter View, you will need two screens so you can share the Slide Show screen in the meeting while seeing Presenter View on the other screen. If you want to see your notes and not use Presenter View, your best option is to use two screens and run Slide Show full screen on one screen and look at your notes on the other screen in PDF or Word.

If you have one screen and want to see your notes in Acrobat and share your slides in a PowerPoint window, you will have to make the slides take up as much of the screen as possible while still being able to see your notes document. The attendees will see a blank area of the screen where the PDF is displayed and see your cursor move as you scroll through your notes but Webex doesn’t offer any better option. You may want to consider the option to have notes on a tablet beside the screen that has the slides full-screen in Slide Show mode because the slides will be larger for the attendees.

Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world . His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don’t overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.

By Dave Paradi

Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world . His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.

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• Launch a browser, navigate to  umaryland.webex.com , then login to Webex using your UMBID and password, and DUO two-factor authentication.
• Find and click on the Start a Meeting button.
• Enable your microphone and camera and click, Start Meeting.
• If appropriate, launch PowerPoint and open your slide presentation.
• When ready, click the Recorder button on the bottom of your screen and begin your presentation.
• To display the PowerPoint, you must Open Powerpoint first, click the Share Content button (next to the Recorder button) and select PowerPoint.
• To stop sharing the presentation, move your pointer to the orange bar at the top of the screen wait for the tool bar to descend from the top of the screen. Select Stop Sharing.
• To Stop the Recording, click on the Recorder button again and select Stop Recording.
• To share your recording, return to the Webex Portal (umaryland.webex.com and select Recordings (on the left). Please be aware that your recording may not be immediately available. Lengthy recordings sometimes take up to 24 hours to finish “generating.”
• Locate your recording and either click the Download button to download a MP4 version of your video or click the Share button to email the recording to your selected recipients. 

If you have any problems recording or distributing your presentation, the Webex Video Tutorial site can help. Go to  https://help.webex.com/en-us/8bzter/Cisco-Webex-Meetings-Video-Tutorials .

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What’s new in Webex: April 2021

Tags: Collaboration Solutions , Collaboration Tools , Intelligent Meeting Summaries , IT Solutions , Security and Compliance , Video Intelligence , Webex App Features , Webex Calling , Webex Contact Center , Webex Control Hub , Webex Devices , Webex Hybrid Security , Webex Meetings , Webex Partner Ecosystem , Webex Partner Integrations , Webex Rewind , Webex Workspaces

Welcome to what’s new in Webex! This article highlights new Webex features and capabilities that will be available in April.

In April we’re introducing expanded features and capabilities in Webex including custom layouts and seamless calling to Webex Meetings for continuous collaboration. We’re also introducing rich experiences for Webex desktop and room devices to help organizations in their safe return to the office.

Read more below for information about these capabilities and more.

CALLING IN WEBEX

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Custom layouts

Customize your view in Webex so you can focus on the people you want to see.  Two new layout features in Webex let you customize your view and experience: use zoom in and out capabilities to adjust your grid view from 5×5 to 2×2, or anywhere in between, so you focus on the people you want to see. You can simply use the slider at the upper right corner and zoom in to see larger images or zoom all the way out and see as many people as possible.

The stage view feature lets you customize the stage, giving you more control over who and what you want to focus on simply by moving anyone from the filmstrip onto the stage.

Post-Meeting Summary

Play back your meeting recordings without leaving the app.  Meeting recordings are now viewed directly within the Webex app and include your meeting transcripts. With the new post-meeting summary feature, these assets will now be automatically populated in a Webex space, beginning first with the meeting recording which streamlines how you access, view, and share recordings (and in the future, all meeting assets). As the meeting host, once you wrap up a meeting there are two places where you can access your recordings:

• In the space that you set up for your meeting, your recording will be accessible in the new ‘Recordings’ tab under the ‘Content’ tab.
• For recorded meetings from your Webex Personal Room, you go to the Calendar view to access your recording.

Webex app on Linux

For the open-source community, we are pleased to announce that Webex is now bringing you messaging, meeting, and one-to-one calling for at work and educational settings. All the core Webex capabilities in a single app are supported to help you seamlessly collaborate. This is just the beginning; support for advanced calling and a full-featured meeting experience will be added in the upcoming releases.

New send button for messages

We’re making it more intuitive for new users to send messages. A new send button in the compose area gives clear indication on how to send messages (this is in addition to simply pressing Enter on the keyboard). We have also added instructions above the send button to show how to create a new line in your messages (Shift + Enter).

Video Playback Enhancement

Change how you view videos in your spaces. Video playback enhancements transforms how you access videos on the Webex mobile app. All videos are now clearly identifiable and easier than ever to start, pause and move to full screen all from within the app. We have also streamlined the process to forward videos to other contacts or spaces.

Optimize shared content, streamline pause and resume capabilities

Webex automatically optimizes your shared content for text, image, or video for better experience. When you share a video, you’ll no longer need to select a higher frame rate to share. Webex automatically determines the optimized settings for content share, selecting best frame rate and resolution for your content type.

Webex delivers business class calling from the cloud. New features are added each month to allow users get the best calling experience.

Seamless escalation of SIP calls to Webex Meetings

Webex enables continuous collaboration from a simple phone call. If you’re on a call, you can now elevate the call to a full-featured meeting with a few clicks of the keyboard without anyone going on hold. Invite additional attendees you’d like to join the discussion. They’ll receive a notification to join the meeting, and from there all participants can take advantage of AI transcriptions, real-time translations, notes and action items, and recordings. You can even move calls to a meeting when you’re talking to people outside your organization. Available on Unified Communication Manager in April and coming soon to Webex Calling.

Support SSO on mobile (UCM)

As a remote worker on a mobile device, users will have an improved user experience with single sign-on (SSO) . The first time you enter the Webex app or when your login expires, you’ll enter a one-time username and password, and you are able to collaborate.

Control the Room USB camera via a remote control

Webex devices will automatically frame the person in front of the camera, but sometimes you want to focus on an object or a specific area of the room. Now you can manually control the camera on Room USB devices with a TRC6 remote control. You can use the remote control to pan, tilt and zoom the camera.

We are adding the open-source JavaScript XAPI library to the web engine on Webex devices. Users will now be able to improve and install UI Extensions and/or local web apps with access to JavaScript content. This opens new opportunities to create new scenarios and macro automatic to create richer web apps.

Work faster with Webex in Box

Need to collaborate live on a Box document? Start or schedule a Webex meeting or share content in a Webex space, without leaving Box. The new Webex integration with Box enables face-to-face communication and easy content sharing, so that you can focus on getting your job done faster. Check with your IT or Box Admin if you don’t see Share file with Webex in your Box account. (Available for Windows and Mac)

Share Box files on mobile on Webex

You can now share, preview, and view Box files from the Webex mobile app. (iPhone, iPad, and Android)

Appspace integration for digital signage

Appspace is now an official Cisco partner for digital signage and will be available as an integrated option in Webex Control Hub. Guide your teams and visitors on their return to the workplace. View the latest guidelines, business critical data, town halls, meeting space schedules, training content, and more. Tailor communications for conference rooms, huddle spaces, and in-home devices. These functionalities can now all be adapted and viewed within Webex Control Hub.​

Webex Contact Center APIs

Offer customers tailored, specialized experiences powered by Cisco’s underlying video, audio and collaboration technologies.

In April,  Webex Contact Center will provide API to support capabilities to: · List and download media captures for your agent-customer interactions · View statistics on your agents · Get statistics for one or more queues · See all open and closed tasks filtered by channel type, organization, or time frame · Use AI APIs to convert speech to text and get AI insights from a conversation

If you are an admin, Webex Control Hub places management, monitoring, troubleshooting, analytics, edge, and hybrid services across all your collaboration resources in one pane of glass.

Workspace Location and Floorplan Summary

Managing collaboration resources in a hybrid work model can benefit from quick, easy, and straight to the point data. With workspace location and floor plan summaries, you can visualize your workspaces both geographically and locally in Webex Control Hub.

Real-time analytics: Calling and Messaging

In April, Webex Control Hub will include real-time analytics for messaging and calling expanding real-time analytics across the suite of services. Analytics are designed with a user-friendly layout with key performance metrics, contextual filtering, and faster load times.

Live Meetings World Map View

Webex Control Hub will present a geographical view that shows all live meetings and connected data centers. With this visual tool, IT Admin can easily identify live meetings with potential network quality issue and use advanced troubleshooting tools to proactively address.

Meeting Participants Map View

A geographical view of a single meeting and the connected data center offers details to quickly zero in on affected meetings using Webex Control Hub trouble shooting capabilities.

Historical Metrics API

IT Admins will be able to pull Webex calculated metrics for Messaging and Device services instead of having to calculate themselves. This allows admins to access metrics consistent with those used in downstream business apps by IT.

Manage security and compliance: Configure and enforce file size limit in Webex spaces

Enforce file size limits for file uploaded to Webex spaces to meet your compliance guidelines. Webex Control Hub allows organizations to configure the file size limit that can be supported by their downstream 3 rd party compliance tools used for corporate data archiving.

Manage security and compliance policy: Admin can block users from joining external Webex meetings

Keep your conversations secure and internal with a simple Webex Control Hub setting. For industries, such as financial and public sector, where employees handle sensitive data, admins can configure settings, so users don’t have meetings external to their organizations. While many companies use firewalls and other complicated methods to achieve this, Webex gives admins the flexibility and simplicity of achieving this higher level of security with a simple turn of a knob in Control Hub.

For more information on all of these features and upcoming updates to Webex, please visit the What’s New Articles for Webex Services

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9 Webex Tips and Tricks Everyone Should Know

Cisco Webex is a great app to select as your go-to video conferencing app. It’s Cisco, so you know it’s secure, and your private information is safe. And it even offers a free account currently.

But Webex is not just good because it’s secure, or easy-to-use. It has a lot of features that make the experience worthwhile. But when starting to use a new app, it can take a lot of time to discover everything it has to offer. And some features are buried so deep, a lot of people never uncover them. But that’s not going to be you. We have compiled a list of all the tips and tricks a Webex user needs to know to use the app to its full potential.

Use Virtual Backgrounds

Bored or embarrassed of your real background while attending video calls from home? Webex now supports virtual backgrounds and background blur for meetings from the desktop app. You need to be using the Webex version 40.7 or higher for the feature to be available. So, if you’ve been on the older version, you’ve missed this gem of a feature.

You can set a virtual background from the preview window before joining the meeting or during the meeting itself. Click on the ‘Change Background’ button on the preview screen and select a background from the menu.

To change the background during the meeting, click on the ‘More options’ icon on your self-view window and then select ‘Change virtual background’ from the menu.

Conduct Polls During a Meeting

During a Webex meeting, you can also host polls and collect the responses from other meeting participants in real-time. But the panel for polls has to be added to a meeting first. And because of that, a lot of people never even find out about the existence of this feature in Webex.

To add polling to a meeting, go to the Menu Bar in the meeting window and click on the ‘View’ option. Then, go to ‘Panels’ in the menu, and select ‘Manage Panels’ from the sub-menu.

Now, select ‘Polling’ from under the ‘Available Panels’ area and click on the ‘Add’ button to move it to the ‘Current Panels’. Finally, click ‘OK’ to save the changes.

The panel for Polling will appear on the right side of the meeting window where the panels for participants, chats, etc., appear. From there, you can add questions and conduct polls with meeting participants.

View Meeting Reports

Webex has special meeting reports that allow you to keep track of everything about your meetings, including but not limited to attendance, usage, duration, email addresses of the participants, and much more. You can view, export, and even print these reports.

This feature is especially useful for teachers who otherwise have to manually keep checking which students are present in the meeting. Using these reports, you can even track when someone joined and left the meeting. But as the option is accessible only from the web portal, and not the desktop app, it’s likely to get overlooked.

Go to webex.com on your browser and log in to your meeting space. Then, go to your name on the right corner of the screen, click on the down arrow, and select ‘My reports’ from the menu.

Then, click on ‘Usage Reports’.

Enter the time period you want to view the reports for and select the meeting to open the report.

The report will have the details of each participant individually, from basic details like their name, email address, to whether they were invited to the meeting, and when they joined and left the meeting, and much more.

Alternate Hosts

So you’re the meeting host, but need to leave due to some unforeseen emergency. Worried about what will happen to the meeting as the host should be present at all times. The future of the meeting starts to look pretty grim at such times, doesn’t it? Well, it doesn’t have to. You can make someone else the meeting host in Webex in one fell swoop.

Open the ‘Participants’ panel and go to the attendee you want to make the new host. Right-click on their name and select ‘Change Role To’ from the menu. Then, select ‘Host’ from the sub-menu to make them the host.

Raise Hand in a Meeting

There are times when you have doubts in the meeting and wish to speak up, but you don’t want to be rude and disrupt the person already speaking. In real-life situations, it’s really easy to do that. You can just raise a hand, and the speaker can let you speak when it suits them.

But in a virtual meeting, raising your hand and hoping the speaker sees your video isn’t the most practical solution. Thank god for virtual hand raising in Webex ! You can raise a hand, and the speaker will be able to see your risen hand next to your name on the participant panel. But keep in mind, that you can only use this feature if you’re not the meeting host.

Open the Participant panel, and go to your name. Then, click the ‘Raise Hand’ option (a hand icon) next to your name. Everyone will get an alert, and they will be able to see that you have raised your hand from the participant panel.

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You can record all your meetings in Webex, everyone knows that. But did you know that you can also change the view of the meeting recordings? By default, the recordings contain the videos of participants, and if it’s a sharing session, then the shared screen and the video thumbnails of other participants. So, in short, the exact replica of your screen.

But these recording views can be modified. You can choose between active-speaker view, and content-only view if you don’t want the video thumbnail view. The active-speaker view contains the video of only the active speaker and if it’s a screen-sharing session, then the shared contents and the video of the active speaker.

In the content-only view, the recording contains only the contents of the shared screen. And if there’s no content sharing session active, then it will only record the audio without any video. You can change the recording views only from the web portal, so it’s prone to escaping people’s notice.

Open the web portal, and go to ‘Preferences’ from the navigation menu on the left. Then go to the ‘Recordings’ tab. Here, you can select the preferred recording view for your recordings.

Change the Host Before the Meeting

You scheduled a meeting, but now you can’t attend it. How will the meeting go forward without the host present? You can change the hosts during the meeting, but for that, you have to join the meeting at least once. But what about the situations when you simply cannot? Well, don’t worry. You can change the host before the meeting.

Every scheduled meeting has a host key that is only visible to the host. Share this key with the person you want to take the role of the host. And they’ll be able to claim the role of the host after entering this key.

To view the key, log in to the Webex web portal and go to your meetings. Then, click on the scheduled meeting to view further details.

Scroll down and under meeting information, you’ll find the Host key. Share it with the other person.

Use Music Mode in Webex

Have you ever wanted to play music on a Webex meeting but found that the other participants couldn’t hear it clearly? That’s because, by default, Webex suppresses the background noise to enhance the audio. This background suppression interferes with the music. Turning on the Music mode preserves the original sound, and you can play the music without any interference. To use Music mode, you should have the WBS 40.8 or later.

To turn on the Music mode, click on the ‘Settings’ option.

Then, select ‘Music Mode’ from the menu.

Closed Captions in Meetings

If you have a bad connection in the meeting, or there’s a participant with a hearing disability present in the meeting, you can have closed captions and transcribe the entire meeting.

If you have a Webex enterprise account, the Webex Meeting assistant will automatically transcribe the meeting using its AI capabilities. Just click on the ‘CC’ option on the lower-left corner of the meeting window.

Other users can have a designated captionist in the meeting to provide captions for the meeting. Go to the participant panel and right-click on the name of the person you want to make the captionist. Go to ‘Change Role to’ in the menu and select ‘Captionist’ from the sub-menu.

You can go here and find complete details about using closed captions in a Webex meeting.

There you go, folks. With these set of tips and tricks in your arsenal, you’ll become a pro in using Webex in no time. With this information at your fingertips, your productivity is bound to increase in no time.

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