Sametime lets you communicate with other people in different locations in real-time over the network or Internet and use its chat, presentation, audio, and video tools.
During this course you learn how to use these key Sametime components:
- Sametime Connect for the desktop
- Sametime Meeting Room
- Sametime Welcome Page
- Sametime Meeting Center
- Sametime Discussions.
Lotus Training Course goals
In this course, you will learn how to:
- create and maintain a Connect List in Sametime Connect for the desktop
- determine the online status of other people
- change your online status
- protect your privacy by allowing only certain people to know your online status
- start Chat and Instant Meetings with one or more people
- moderate a meeting using the Whiteboard and Screen Sharing Tools as well as the send a web page, poll people, change the moderator, and grant/revoke permissions
- schedule a meeting that includes an uploaded presentation file
- participate in a meeting and use the meeting room tools such as hand raising and chat
- record a scheduled meeting and play it back using the playback client
- participate in a Sametime Discussion, using its threaded topic and real-time features
- use the Audio and Video tools during a meeting.
Lotus Training Audience
This course assumes basic personal computer and software skills, and is designed for individuals who can:
- start and stop software applications in Microsoft® Windows™
- perform basic Windows operations such as manage windows, cut and paste, drag/drop, etc.
- use Microsoft Windows Explorer to find and organize files
- use the Internet Explorer 5.01+ (SP2) or 5.5 (SP2) browser to open and navigate Web sites
- use any type of email
- create, format, and print documents using a graphical word processing software package
- participate in a Domino Discussion database (either from a Browser or Notes).
Course design
This course combines concept presentations, demonstrations, and exercises to guide your learning. Though designed for instructor-lead classes, with the proper equipment and software individuals can also use this course for self-study.
Please consult the Set Up document for this course to make sure the correct environment is in place before starting the course.
Lotus Training Course duration
This course is sold as a half day course, though there is an abundance of material that you probably won't have time to cover.
Lotus Training Course outline
Topic 1: Get Started
- Why Sametime?
- Sametime components
- Start Sametime Connect for the Desktop
- Automatically start Sametime Connect at startup
- Manually change your online presence status
- Exercise: Change your online status
- Change your online presence status preference
- Protect your privacy
- Sametime Help System
- Exercise: Get Help
- Additional user documentation
Topic 2: Contact List
- Add people
- Exercise: Add people to Contact List
- Changing the Contact List
- Know when others become active
- Add a public group
- Exercise: Add public group
- Save Contact List
- Add AOL Instant Messenger buddies
- AOL Instant Messenger limitations
Topic 3: Chat Tool Chat with one person
- Exercise: Chat with one person
- Save the chat transcript
- Chatting with multiple people in a Chat Meeting
- Exercise: Chat Meeting
- Upgrade a Chat Meeting
- Know when you are invited
- Send file
- AOL Instant Messenger limitations
Topic 4: Instant Meetings
- Meeting types
- Start an Instant Meeting Room
- Exercise: Instant Meeting
- Use the Whiteboard
- Exercise: Whiteboard
- Moderate a meeting
- Permissions
- Exercise: Permissions
- Send Web pages
- Exercise: Send Web page
- Poll attendees
- Exercise: Poll attendees
- Assign a new moderator
- Hand raising
Topic 5: Screen Sharing
- Start Screen Sharing
- Exercise: Screen sharing
- Giving others control of your screen
- Participant Details List
- Screen sharing and permissions
Topic 6: Scheduled Meetings
- Schedule a meeting
- Essentials tab
- Files tab
- Security tab
- Tools tab
- Locations tab
- Exercise: Schedule a meeting
- Save Whiteboard to file
- Attach file to Whiteboard
Topic 7: Audio and Video Tools
- Resource requirements
- Test your capabilities
- Advertise your capabilities
- Permission to speak
- Microphone modes
- Exercise: Video tool
- Sametime Broadcast client
Topic 8: Record and Playback Meetings
- Record the meeting
- Play back the meeting
Topic 9: Sametime Discussions
- Open Sametime Discussion
- Exercise: Use Sametime Discussion
