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Web Touring - Co-Browsing
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Linktivity WebDemo offers a web touring and co-browsing facility that allows the presenter/moderator to display web pages to meeting participants. In WebDemo this feature is called CoBrowse.
Review Overview
This review discusses the following aspects of the co-browse option within Linktivity WebDemo:
Starting Co-Browse
To start co-browsing session using WebDemo, the meeting host needs to click on the co-browse button in the toolbar.
Enabling co-browsing
Excluding Attendees from Co-Browse
Attendees may be excluded from a co-browsing by the meeting host. After selecting them in the attendee list, the meeting host right-clicks and turns off CoBrowse in the menu.
Excluding attendees from co-browse
Controlling the Co-Browse Session
After the meeting host initiates a co-browse session, an introductory web page appears reminding the participants not to interact with pages opened by the presenter. The reason for this warning is that a participant may be inclined to open hyperlinks inside presented web pages, causing the participant to lose focus of the main presentation. To ensure that the meeting host retains control over the session, the browser window on the attendees' side is automatically refreshed as soon as the meeting host opens a new web page, thus overriding independent browsing activities of the attendees.
WebDemo co-browse starting page
Entering URLs
The meeting host may manually type the urls of the desired web pages into the address toolbar of his browser window. Alternatively, while preparing the meeting, he may collect the urls into a bookmark folder and open urls from that folder in a browser sidebar.
Single Browser Window Approach
Only one browsing window may be opened during a co-browse session. All web pages need to be opened consecutively inside this single browser window. In order to keep a browser window open, the meeting host first needs to close the current co-browse session and answer "Yes" to the question whether the client window should remain open. Then a new co-browse session may be initiated while the web page from the previous session remains onscreen.
Co-Browse Screen Resolution
The screen resolution of the co-browsing window in WebDemo is fixed at 800*600 pixels. The fixed resolution guarantees maximum compatibility with various screen configurations among the meeting participants.
Closing a Co-Browse Session
After the meeting host terminates the co-browsing session, a confirmation dialog box is displayed allowing the host to decide whether the meeting participants may continue browsing from the last displayed web page.
Closing a co-browse session
Cons: - Advanced features such as co-filling and co-scrolling are not supported: modifications carried out by the meeting host inside web pages are not propagated onto the client window and when the meeting host scrolls a web page up or down, participants cannot see the scrolling take place.
- There is no option to preview web pages before they are presented to attendees.
- Only the session host has the right to initiate a co-browse session. To allow a meeting participant to start a co-browse session, the meeting host has to transfer the host capability to that attendee, thus transferring the entire meeting control to that attendee.
Evaluating Conclusion
Linktivity WebDemo offers a rather basic co-browsing feature that nonetheless functions reliably and efficiently.
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Posted on June 20, 2003 at 09:27 PM
Updated on November 24, 2004 at 10:02 PM
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