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Moderator Controls

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Within Microsoft Live Meeting the moderator is in control of all the presentation facilities and has a wide range of choices in selecting and deciding which functionalities tom activate and how to organize/customize the meeting space.

Notably, Microsoft Live Meeting is one of the first enterprise Web conferencing systems to invest serious resources into providing the presenter/moderator with a broad set of options affecting the facilities made available through the live session and actual physical perception and organization of its visual components.

Through the selections made on the left list of options which can be checked "on" or "off" the moderator effectively turns on and off the display of distinctive parts of the Live Meeting interface. For example by selecting the option of having attendees annotate and edit slides the presenter/moderator automatically activates the display of the whiteboard annotation tools on all of the participants' screens.

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Through the same set of features the presenter/moderator is able to activate the ability for the session participants to upload presentations, select and create new slides as well as importing other presentations.

The ability to have text chat sessions with participants is also controlled by this well designed and integrated Meeting Options facility.

The presenter has the unique option of activating a Question Manager module allowing participants to ask open questions to the presenter(s) and to receive replies in a simple to operate window. This allows the presenter to keep an open dialogue with the participants even during a live session. Since replying to questions while presenting at the same time may not be ideal, skilled presenters get generally the support of another person or two to reply live to the questions received.