Guide to host /
join Dollar Meeting, using Internet Explorer (recommended). |
| This guide covers the steps to host and join a meeting using Internet Explorer (recommended,
which would run the DollarMeeting-.exe-files without need to save
them) as default Internet browser: |
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Host Guide:
1. Visit URL
2a. Click "Run"
2b. Click Again
3a. Meeting started
3b. Invite attendees
3c.Join
tips
4a. Host
desktop-sharing
4b. Host
annotation
4c. Client
remote-control
5. FAQ
6. Tech Req
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 Client Guide:
1. Click URL-link
2a. Click "Run"
2b. Click Again
2c. Enter name
3. Joined meeting
4a. View host-desktop
4b. Remote-control (of host)
4c.
Remote-annotation (of host)
5. FAQ
6. Tech Req
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| Host a Meeting
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1. Visit URL
2a. Click "Run"
2b. Click Again
3a. Meeting started
3b. Invite attendees
3c. Join tips
4a. Host
desktop-sharing
4b. Host
annotation
4c. Client
remote-control
5. FAQ
6. Tech Req |
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To host a Dollar Meeting, please visit
URL: http://www.DollarMeeting.com |
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(Host meeting) Step 1:
Visit URL |
Enter your email
address at above URL, and click the “Start Meeting” button.
Please wait 45-seconds for prompt in Step 2a below. |
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(Host meeting) Step 2a:
Click "Run" |
1. The window in Fig. 1a: "Please
do not close ..." will pop-up in seconds.
2. Please wait
30-45 seconds for file-download window (in Fig. 1b). When
prompted to run the UxDollarMeeting_host_MeetingID.exe (e.g.
UxDollarMeeting_host_67147000.exe in Fig. 1b), click “Run” button. |
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do not close..." window pops-up. |
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Fig. 1b: Click "Run" button |
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(Host meeting) Step 2b:
Click Again |
When prompted again to
run UxDollarMeeting_host_MeetingID.exe (after it is downloaded)
in Fig. 2, click “Run” button
again. |
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Fig. 2: Click "Run" button again |
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(Host meeting) Step 3a:
Meeting started |
The launch of the host-GUI (and
annotation-tools) in Fig. 3a below (of host's desktop)
indicates that the meeting has started. A window will pop-up
(on top of host-GUI, illustrated in Fig. 3b) to offer
meeting help for host. |
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Fig. 3a: Meeting has started (sharing host's
desktop) |
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Fig. 3b: Second window pop-up to offer
meeting help for host. |
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(Host meeting) Step 3b:
Invite attendees |
1. Click the "Invite" button (of
host-GUI, in Fig. 3a above) to follow instructions
(in Figure 4 below) to invite your meeting attendees (to
share your desktop with multiple Skype / instant messenger /
email contacts).
2. Click "Copy" button (in Fig. 4) to copy meeting-URL-link message ("http://ActiveX.DollarMeeting.com/ux/?id=72892890"
in Fig. 4).
3. Pop-up Skype (in Fig.
5) or instant
messenger (I.M.) / email software to chat-with /
send-email-to attendees.
4.
Enter "Control + V" (in Fig. 6) to paste meeting-URL-link message (in
Fig. 7) to your Skype / I.M.-chat / email.
5. Send the Skype (in
Fig. 8) / I.M. / email messages to invite attendees to click to join
your Dollar Meeting.
6. You may also phone your attendees
and ask them to enter host's Meeting ID (e.g. id=72892890 in
above example) at URL:
http://www.DollarMeeting.com/join.html (and click "Join
meeting" button to join host's meeting).
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Fig. 4: Click "Copy" button (to copy
meeting-URL-link) |
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Fig. 5: Pop-up Skype / I.M. (to chat with
attendees) / email-software |
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Fig. 6: Enter "Control + V" on keyboard . .
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Fig. 7: ... to paste meeting-URL-link (to Skype /
I.M / email messages) |
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Fig. 8: Send meeting-URL-link (as Skype / I.M.
/ email invitation messages to attendees) |
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(Host meeting) Step 3c:
Join tips |
1.
Please copy and send the following Skype / I.M. /
email-message and URL (illustrated in Fig. 9 below) to your
attendees in Step 3b (in last slide) for attendees to click to
get tips to join your meeting:
" Please click URL below
to download (join_meeting_tips.pdf):
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/dmeet/join_meeting_tips.pdf
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2. Repeat Step 3b (in last slide) to invite other
attendees to your Dollar Meeting.
Leave only one
presentation window (e.g. PowerPoint application) on your
desktop: i.e. minimize Skype / I.M. / email window(s) and other
non-presentation windows (to reduce clutter on your desktop,
which makes it easier for your attendees to follow your
meeting). |
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Fig. 9: Send Skype /
I.M / email message and URL for attendees to click to get
tips to join your meeting |
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(Host meeting) Step
4a:
Host desktop-sharing |
1. When you started meeting in
Step 3a: "Meeting started", you would be (automatically)
sharing your desktop if there are any attendees (whom you
have invited in Step 3b: "Invite attendees", and who have
clicked your meeting-URL-link to join your meeting).
Desktop Sharing (illustration and demo below) allows you to show you attendees your entire computer desktop -- including any applications, windows, and file directories that are currently open.
In other words, host-desktop-screen-changes are viewable at multiple-attendees-desktops
(around the world) in seconds.
You can:
- make (MS Office) presentations (for others to view in seconds around the world),
- share your (MS Office, I.E.) applications/desktop with others in real time,
- text or free-hand annotations (of your applications/desktop, to highlight a point),
- (granted) remote control (by attendee)
of your (MS Office) application /desktop,
with your multiple attendees worldwide, while you use 10-party Skype free audio-conferencing.
2. You may view (Dollar Meeting) desktop-sharing demo at URL:
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/UxDemo/UxDemo.html |
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(Host meeting) Step
4b:
Host annotation |
1. When you started meeting in
Step 3a: "Meeting started", you would be (automatically)
sharing your desktop if there are any attendees (whom you
have invited in Step 3b: "Invite attendees", and who have
clicked your
meeting-URL-link to join your meeting).
Host annotation (to highlight a
point, or to draw attendee-attention) allows the host to type or draw freehand
(illustrated below in BLACK) over host's application, window, file directory,
or desktop, and replicating the typing or freehand drawing to attendees' computers.
In other words, the host may draw image (i.e. type or draw freehand) over that generated by the host computer and replicate the drawn image to attendees' computers.
(You may subsequently erase the typed or drawn free-hand
images.)
Note: You may use the mouse to drag the "|"-icon (circled in
RED in illustration below) to
move host's tool-bar:
2. To annotate, you'd:
2(a) (to do typing annotation:) Click to highlight- -icon (illustrated below) on the (movable) host
tool-bar (at top-right corner of host desktop):
You may then (use keyboard and move mouse into position to) type-to-annotate over host's application,
window, file directory, or desktop.
To stop typing annotation, please click to de-highlight--icon.
2(b) (to do freehand annotation:) Click to highlight- -icon (illustrated below) on the (movable)
host tool-bar:
You may then (move mouse into position to) depress
mouse-left-button and drag the mouse to draw free-hand
annotation over host's application, window, file directory,
or desktop.
To stop freehand annotation, please click to de-highlight--icon.
2(c) (to erase all typed and free-hand images on
desktop:) Please click to highlight- -icon (illustrated below) on
the host tool-bar:
3. You may view (Dollar Meeting) host annotation demo (video
clip at timeline:1:10-1:50) at URL:
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/UxDemo/UxDemo.html |
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(Host meeting) Step
4c:
Client remote-control |
1. Client remote-control (of host
desktop) allows (authorized) attendees to use host's mouse and keyboard to control the host's computer remotely.
It means that an attendee can work (such as to make presentation or share host's-application/desktop) on host's computer, as if the attendee were sitting in front of host's computer, and replicate the attendee's work (e.g. presentation or sharing host's-application/desktop) on host's computer to
all attendees' computers.
2. To allow client remote-control (of host desktop),
you'd:
2(a) Click to highlight- -icon (illustrated below) on the (movable) host
tool-bar (at top-right corner of host desktop):
Notice that "GRANT Remote Control..."-button of host-GUI is
auto-highlighted at same time; or
To disallow client remote-control, please click to
de-highlight--icon.
(Notice that "GRANT Remote Control..."-button is auto
de-highlighted at same time.)
2(b) Click to highlight-"GRANT Remote Control..."-button
(illustrated below) of host-GUI (near top-right corner of
host desktop):
Notice that
-icon on the host tool-bar is
auto-highlighted at the same time.
(If an attendee wants to do client remote-control, the
attendee would click its "GET Remote Control..."
button, which would be auto-highlighted when you allow
client remote-control in 2(a) and 2(b) above.)
3. If you want to stop immediately an attendee's
current activity in remote-control (if attendee's current
activity is undesirable), please click
 -icon
(next to
-icon, as illustrated below):
4. You may view (Dollar Meeting) client remote-control demo (video
clip at timeline:3:35-4:25) at URL:
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/UxDemo/UxDemo.html |
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| Join a Meeting
(using Internet Explorer as default browser.) |
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(Click to pop-up
Client Guide:)
1. Click URL-link
2a. Click "Run"
2b. Click Again
2c. Enter name
3. Joined meeting
4a. View host-desktop
4b. Remote-control (of host)
4c.
Remote-annotation (of host)
5. FAQ
6. Tech Req |
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To join host's Dollar Meeting, please ask your
host to instant-message / email you (in "Host a Meeting"
Step 3b above):
- host's Skype / I.M. / email message with
meeting-URL-link
invitation (e.g.
http://ActiveX.DollarMeeting.com/ux/?id=7023262
in Fig. 9)
for you to click (the
meeting-URL-link invitation
message) to join your host's Dollar Meeting.
The following steps illustrate how to join your host's Dollar
Meeting using Internet Explorer as default browser (to run
downloaded SaaS-.exe-file).
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(Join meeting)
Step 1:
Click URL-link |
Your host send you the Skype or I.M. message with
meeting-URL-link
invitation (in Fig. 9) for you to click (the
meeting-URL-link
invitation message). Please wait 30-seconds for prompt
(illustrated in Fig. 10) in Step 2a below. |
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Fig. 9: (You click host's)
meeting-URL-link invitation
message |
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(Join meeting)
Step 2a: Click "Run" |
When prompted to run
the UxDollarMeeting_client_MeetingID.exe (e.g.
UxDollarMeeting_client_19286790.exe in Fig. 10), click “Run” button |
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Fig. 10: Click "Run" button |
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(Join meeting)
Step 2b: Click Again |
When
prompted again to run the UxDollarMeeting_client_MeetingID.exe (after it is
downloaded) in Fig. 11, click "Run" button again. |
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Fig. 11: Click "Run" button again |
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(Join meeting)
Step 2c: Enter name |
When prompted to
enter your name, please enter your name (e.g. DMeeting2 in
Fig. 12). |
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Fig. 12: Enter your name |
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(Join meeting)
Step 3: Joined meeting |
The launch of
client's view of host's-desktop, client-GUI, and client
pop-up window in Fig. 13 below
indicates that you have joined host's meeting (sharing
host's desktop with multiple attendees, with
remote-control and
remote-annotation (of host) ). |
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Fig. 13: You have joined host's meeting |
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(Join meeting)
Step
4a: View host-desktop |
1. When you joined host's meeting in
Step 3: "Joined meeting", you would be (automatically)
viewing host's desktop.
Desktop Sharing (illustration and demo below) allows
host to show you (and other attendees) host's entire computer desktop -- including any applications, windows, and file directories that are currently open.
In other words, host-desktop-screen-changes are viewable at
your (and other attendees) desktops
(around the world) in seconds.
Host can:
- make (MS Office) presentations (for you and others to view in seconds),
- share host's (MS Office, I.E.) applications/desktop
with you and others in real time,
- text or free-hand annotations (of host applications/desktop, to highlight a point),
- (granted) remote control (by
attendees, one at a time) of host's application /desktop,
with you (and other attendees worldwide), while you and
host use 10-party Skype free audio-conferencing.
2. You may view (Dollar Meeting) desktop-sharing demo at URL:
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/UxDemo/UxDemo.html |
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(Join meeting)
Step
4b: Remote-control (of host) |
1. Remote-control (of host
desktop) allows you (or authorized attendees, one at a time) to use host's mouse and keyboard to control the host's computer remotely.
It means that you (or others) can work (such as to make presentation or share host's-application/desktop) on host's computer, as if
you (or others) were sitting in front of host's computer, and replicate the attendee's work (e.g. presentation or sharing host's-application/desktop) on host's computer to
all attendees' computers.
2. To get remote-control (of host desktop), you'd:
2(a) Ask host to click to highlight--icon (illustrated below) on the host
tool-bar (at top-right corner of host desktop):
2(b) Or ask host to click to highlight-"GRANT Remote Control..."-button
(illustrated below) of host-GUI (near top-right corner of
host desktop):
2(c) If you want to do remote-control (of host), you would
then click your "GET Remote Control..." button, which
would be auto-highlighted when host allows client
remote-control in 2(a) and 2(b) above.
3. You may view (Dollar Meeting) client remote-control demo (video
clip at timeline:3:35-4:25) at URL:
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/UxDemo/UxDemo.html |
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(Join meeting)
Step
4c: Remote-annotation (of host) |
1. After you get remote-control
(of host) in Step 4b: "Remote-control...",
you may use host's tool-bar to do remote-annotation (of
host).
Your remote-annotation of host-desktop (to highlight a
point, or to draw host/other-attendee-attention) allows you to type or draw freehand
(illustrated below in BLACK) over host's application, window, file directory,
or desktop, and replicating the typing or freehand drawing to
your and other attendees computers.
In other words,
you may (remotely) draw image (i.e. type or draw freehand) over that generated by the host computer and replicate the drawn image to
your and other attendees' computers.
(You or host may subsequently remotely erase the typed or drawn free-hand
images.)
Note: You may remotely use the mouse to drag the "|"-icon (circled in
RED in illustration below) to
move host's tool-bar:
2. To annotate remotely, you'd:
2(a) (to do remote typing annotation:) Click to highlight--icon (illustrated below) on the (movable) host
tool-bar (at top-right corner of host desktop):
You may then (remotely use your keyboard and move your mouse into position to)
remotely type-to-annotate over host's application,
window, file directory, or desktop.
To stop remote typing annotation, click to de-highlight--icon.
2(b) (to do remote freehand annotation:) Click to highlight--icon (illustrated below) on the (movable)
host tool-bar:
You may then (move your mouse into position to) depress
your mouse-left-button and drag your mouse to draw remotely free-hand
annotation over host's application, window, file directory,
or desktop.
To stop remote freehand annotation, click to de-highlight--icon.
2(c) (to remotely erase all typed and free-hand images on
host's desktop:) Please click to highlight--icon (illustrated below) on
the host tool-bar:
3. You may view (Dollar Meeting) annotation demo (video
clip at timeline:1:10-1:50) at URL:
http://www.dollarmeeting.com/UxDemo/UxDemo.html
The above video clip is for host annotation, but client
remote-annotation (of host) would be similar to do. |
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