Please check with one moderator and one standard user who is given "Draw on the whiteboard" permissions so that they can zoom and scroll their screen, and you will see the below issues.
1) Do you realise that users do not have the zoom ability, unless they are given full "Draw on whiteboard" permissions and then they can affect other peoples screens? So at the moment they cannot have the ability to zoom without also having the ability affecting other people's screens. 2) While you are correct when you say "Zoom is not necessary to control, it only affects each person's screen not the group", please check, you will find that when a user scrolls their screen, they also scroll everyone's screen, including the moderators screen. So after zooming, you need to scroll the screen but then you affect everyones screen. 3) When the moderator zooms their screen, the screens of other users are not zoomed, so if the moderator zooms and then scrolls the document in the whiteboard, the document in the users screens is not zoomed and because it remains smaller that the moderator's screen. When the moderator scrolls their screen the document in the users screens scrolls off out of view. This is quite frustrating and the only thing to do is to give everyone full "Draw on the whiteboard" permissions. . Thanks, George Kirkham From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2012 9:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some changes for students and others Zoom is not necessary to control, it only affects each person's screen not the group. I would leave it the way it is. The rest of your suggestions are great. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ________________________________ From: "George Kirkham" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:49:55 +1000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: RE: Some changes for students and others Alexei, Do you have any comments on Donald's points below. I would have included a fourth point, similar to point 2, that there should be 4) a separate option for the ability to control the zoom and scrolling of the window I have had uses who need to zoom into an uploaded document but they only way is to give them the ability to draw on the Whiteboard, which also gives them the ability to change pages/slides. I may have once seen the issue where someone, not realising what the control did, cleared the entire whiteboard, but it did not occur to me that standard users do not need this ability, it should be left to the moderator as Donald has suggested. So without adding any further user options, and just rearranging the permissions, would the following work well? a) Moderator only has 1) "Clear whiteboard" option, 2) ability to change pages, 3) clear the chat window. b) Draw on the whiteboard gives the user the ability to the whiteboard tools except for "Clear Whiteboard". They would be able to select colours and font sizes, but not to change slides. c) But what about the ability to change the zoom of your own window or to scroll up or down. This is important for people working from small screens (e.g. from laptops). Should this be controlled via the ability to draw on the whiteboard? Or should it be an option all of its own. Are there any circumstances when you would not want users to have this ability? I have had the issue that on my large screen I was unable to scroll the document up high enough for a user (who had a small screen) to be able to see all of the document. Thanks, George Kirkham From: Donald Grothoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012 8:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Some changes for students and others AS I work through Openmeetings I see these things that I believe should be changed: 1. I want to give the participants the ability to write on board but I think the X option should not be there for the participants because it wipes out the modertator stuff too. 2. The direction arrows for the white board presentations should only be there for the moderator or optional to turn on for the participants because they can then move through the presentation and interrupt the moderator? 3. Participants should not be allowed to clear chats, that should be a option of the moderator especially everyones chats Question: If I have not chatted with a participant - How do I do the first chat with them? Thanks Don -- Donald Grothoff EFT Practitioner EFT Tapping Charlotte <http://www.efttappingcharlotte.com> Office: 704-557-0045 Cell: 704-562-1630 EFT - The Almost Perfect Solution Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.
