Maintenance Manual

Automatic
lecture mode
Automatic lecture mode is most useful when the
conference is a lecture. The setting allows the
lecturer (chair) to be shown in full-screen view to
the students. In this mode, the lecturer will continue
to see their normal (continuous presence) view. That
is, the lecturer will see the students (guests) and not
himself.
The MCU identifies the lecturer as being the loudest
speaker and controls the layout seen by the other
participant according to which mode is selected
here.
Select from:
■ Disabled: Automatic lecture mode is
disabled.
■ Type 1: The speaker sees continuous
presence (or their custom layout) and all
participants see the guest who is speaking
(be they a chair or a guest).
■ Type 2: All guests including the speaker see
the last chair who spoke full screen. All
chairs will see their custom layout.
If you have configured a custom layout for the
lecturer, that will override the normal continuous
presence view. For the other participants (the
students), the view of the lecturer (the loudest
speaker) overrides any custom layout.
During Type 1 lecture mode, whoever is
the loudest speaker is seen full screen
when all chairs have left the conference
leaving only guests, the loudest speaker
sees the continuous presence screen
layout and can modify the layout whereas
the other participants see the loudest
speaker and cannot change the layout.
During Type 2 lecture mode, when all
chairs have left the conference leaving
only guests, the guests see a normal
continuous presence view of each other
and can then modify their layout.
Note that you can use the conference's
Mute on join setting together with the
settings for the lecturer's endpoint's Initial
audio status to ensure that the full screen
view does not get needlessly interrupted.
If you disable Automatic lecture mode,
this change will take effect immediately,
that is, the layout changes from full screen
to continuous presence (or custom
layout).
For ad hoc conferences, you can
configure Automatic lecture mode
through the ad hoc conferences template.
You can also edit the Automatic lecture
mode setting for individual active ad hoc
conferences.
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