Conference password and control
By enabling this option passwords are associated to each reserved conference in order to prevent your conference
from unauthorized participants, and in additon by using conference chair feature you can
gain full control over a videoconference. Entering passwords and different control commands
works with the help of videoconference endpoint originated audio signals (Interactive
Voice Response (IVR), DTMF signals). This technology is very well known from phone
call center menüs and from other IVR oriented services, controlled with keypad of an ordinary phone device.
You, as the owner of a reserved videoconference will receive two 6 digit passwords from the booking system.
After dialing the given dial in number in a usual way, a female voice will ask for your password
("Please enter your password"). Password is entered using keypad (i.e. remote control) of your videoconference
equipment (in case of using a videoconference software, there should be a keypad as well). After entering the
6 digit password a "#" must close the input. The function of each password is the following:
- Entry password: general password, all general participants must know this password to
enter the conference. After entering this password, you will be taken to your conference automatically. The entry
password is shown in all notification e-mail messages sent by the booking system.
- Chair password: in case entering the chair password when it is asked, you will be handled as a
privileged participant, or in other words you will be the chair of the conference. A conference chair is
authorized to use several useful control commands. Chair password of a videoconference can be retrieved only
from the booking system by using "Conference info" menü. Due to security reasons this password is not shown
in notification e-mail messages sent by the booking system.
As a conference chair the following control commands are available:
- **: change conference screen layout.
- *5: mute all but me.
- #5: turn off mute all but me (unmute).
- *70: conference lock (no more participants can dial in).
- #70: conference unlock.
- *77: change conference entry password.
- *87: terminate conference.
- *82: new voting session.
- #82: cancel voting session.
- *81: start voting (after *82).
- #81: stop voting (after *81), viewing results is possible by using "Conference info" menü.
For any participant (both chair and not chair participants) the following control commands are available:
- *6: mute myself.
- #6: unmute myself.
- *9: increase broadcast volume.
- #9: decrease broadcast volume.
- *76: increase listen volume.
- #76: decrease listen volume.
- *83: play menü.