
			Facilities

Facilities, Functionalities and Terminology

Moderator Controls

Moderator controls generally include those facilities and controls that allow the presenter/moderator to mute, ban, boot, banish participants in a live session. This may include muting their microphones, excluding them from text chat or even preventing them from entering the room.

Other relevant controls a presenter/moderator may wish to have at her disposal are the ability to hand-out control of the presentation to other participants, to elect other users to be moderators or co-presenters, and to grant special permission and rights to any of the participants.

• Participants list
A list of the participants actually present in the live meeting.

• Ban participants
The ability to ban a participant from a virtual meeting or Web conferencing "room".

• Mute participants
The facility to control participants ability to voice talk or to use the text chat to communicate.

• See participants status
The ability to monitor in real-time participants' status in terms of:

technical settings and characteristics of her computer (screen resolution, operating systems, browser type, etc.)

synchronization with the content being shown

what content is being viewed

performance and connectivity status

• Monitoring of participants
Monitoring participants is intended as the ability to see how participants interact personally and technically with the live event. Monitoring functions may include the ability to see their connection speed, what they are looking at and whether a certain page or visual has reached successfully their screen. This is very useful in providing the presenter/moderator with a real-time visual feedback of participant status (ability to see how much delay the participant is having) due to the different latencies that will affect meeting participants with different connection speeds and coming in from different world locations.

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