Participant View


After entering a meeting, the top part of KOALA will display the ongoing meeting window. The Icons with all connected participants will always show, even if the user is not sending any audio/video.



Next to the user name you can see the small bubble icon or which indicates the current speaker. The previous speaker is indicated by the icons or . If you see or it means the user has her/his microphone switched ON.
In the upper right corner of the participant view, the number of connected participants is shown :


The user that made the reservation for the meeting will become automatically moderator and has additional privileges. The moderator(s) of the meeting always have an additional color border around their icon in the participant view. In the upper right corner of the participant view the moderator can click on the button to modify the current meeting (like increase the duration or add a password for instance).

LAYOUT and SIZE


You can change the participants view by clicking on the

button (“Participants view”) located in the upper left corner.

Information & Phone Bridge ID 


If you want to see the information about any meeting, click on the small icon. You will get a pop-up window with information about the Title, Description, Meeting URL, Phone bridge ID and Password. The meeting URL can be used to join the ongoing meeting. If you are moderator, you can change the duration of the meeting by extending the time when meeting will finish.

Private INTERACTION with another participant


Clicking with the left mouse button on user‘s icon will allow you to choose one of the following options to interact with another participant. Using this menu you can do following things (respectively, from left to right): start private chat with selected user, send a file to the selected user, add him/her to your buddy list and to start Private Call (described below)

Aparté, Private Audio discussion


The Aparté is a private audio conversation during the ongoing meeting. It lets you talk with another participant of the same meeting without being heard by the rest of the participants of the same meeting. No one else will be aware of your private call. It is like you whisper to your neighboring colleague in a real conference room.

Click on this button to send the request to the selected participant. If the remote participant accepts your call, the interface looks like this (see below).


Your microphone will automatically be switched ON. During your private audio discussion you will hear at the same time the discussion that going on in the meeting. It could be difficult to do both, so it is possible to uncheck the "Listen all" checkbox at the bottom left corner of the meeting panel in KOALA to mute the sound coming from the meeting and just listen the person who is in Aparté with you. A click on the

button will stop the Private Call. Then your microphone will be automatically muted and the interface will come back as usual (see below).