Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Maintenance Manual

Cisco MeetingServer 5.1 System Manager’s Guide   

 

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Cisco Systems 

 

March 2003 

To close the floor (when the floor is open) to everyone except speakers and 
return to a lecture format, press #44 again. Everyone hears the 
announcement: “The floor is now closed.”  

After you announce you’re taking questions, tell participants to press #71 if 
they want to be placed in a queue to ask questions. 

When a participant is next in the queue, press #793 to move that participant 
to the floor.  

To move a participant off the floor, press #791. You can then move the next 
queued participant to the floor by pressing #793.  

Continue moving participants on and off the floor until all questions have 
been asked or you want to return to the presentation portion of the meeting. 

MeetingPlace allows you to schedule meetings with up to 550 participants in 
either “all speaker” or lecture-style format. However, it is recommended that 
you schedule large meetings (anything over 100 participants) as lecture-style 
for greater efficiency.  

Along with setting the Lecture Meeting Attend Settings parameter, the 
following parameters are recommended for large meetings: 

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Announces participants as they enter the 

meeting. Set this parameter to “Silent” so that the meeting is not 
disturbed by late arrivals. 

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Announces participants every time they exit 

the meeting. Set this parameter to “Silent” so that the meeting is not 
disturbed. 

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The roll call feature allows participants to hear a list 

of the first 120 users currently in the meeting. For large meetings, it is 
recommended that you set this parameter to “yes” thereby disabling the 
roll call feature. 

To enhance any lecture-style meeting with Q&A features, refer to the section 
below.  

When a Q&A meeting is scheduled, the meeting creator or controller must 
set the following parameters: