Hi,
I have raised the below change requests to address these changes. When considering the changes I can see that there are three different people in a meeting; 1) Moderators who have total control over the meeting and all of its participants 2) Presenters who are presenting to the meeting. There are times when we may have five presenters, two people may work together for a particular presentation but usually each presenter takes their own turn to make their presentation. It can be that you do not want these people to have full moderator abilities. 3) Participants to whom the presenters are presenting their presentation. During the meeting participants may or may not be given the rights to contribute to the presentation or to ask questions. They may be given the ability to "Draw on the Whiteboard" so that they can add or highlight an area of interest/discussion. I can see that it would be worthwhile to have both a "User is a Moderator" and a "User is a Presenter" options in OpenMeetings, do others agree, or should all presenters also be moderators? All participant changes; OPENMEETINGS-368 - Allow users to zoom their view of the Whiteboard by default and not being controlled by "Draw on the Whiteboard" permissions OPENMEETINGS-373 - By default all users should be able to scroll their Whiteboard, and doing so should not affect any other participants Whiteboard. Presenter level changes; OPENMEETINGS-369 - Please make the "Clear Whiteboard" tool only accessible to Moderators and not to participants who have "Draw on the Whiteboard" rights OPENMEETINGS-370 - Please make the ability to change slides/pages of an uploaded document only available to Moderators, and not to participants who have "Draw on the Whiteboard" rights OPENMEETINGS-371 - Please make the ability to create new Whiteboards or change the Whiteboard only available to Moderators, and not to participants who have "Draw on the Whiteboard" rights has been successfully created. OPENMEETINGS-374 - Only Moderators should have the ability to upload, add, delete, or load files and folders. Moderator (only) level changes; OPENMEETINGS-372 - Please make the ability to "clear the Chat window" only available to Moderators, and not to participants who have "Draw on the Whiteboard" rights Thanks, George Kirkham From: George Kirkham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 22 July 2012 2:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Some changes for students and others To restate the possible changes suggested by Donald (and include a fourth suggestion); 1) Have it that by default Users always have the ability to zoom their Whiteboard (since "it only affects each person's screen not the group") 2) The abilities to "Clear whiteboard" (whiteboard tool), "change pages/slides" (Properties window), and "clear the chat window" (Chat window) will be Moderator only permissions. 3) Giving Users "Draw on the Whiteboard" permissions will give them the ability to use the "Undo" tool, but not the "Clear whiteboard" tool. They would get access to the properties window for changing fonts, colours and sizes but not for changing slides/pages. 4) The ability to scroll the whiteboard - As user scrolling affects all users, is it possible to have users able to scroll only their own Whitebaord, but moderators scroll everyone's Whiteboard ? This solution seems the best if it is not too hard to code. If so the users could have scroll and zoom ability by default as both these two abilities would only affect their own whiteboard. Please read and review the above changes, and let us know if there are any issues that could arise if these changes are implemented. 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.
