BT MeetMe Global Access User guide

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BT MeetMe Global Access is an instant audio conferencing service that only requires access from a fixed or mobile phone, to enable virtual meetings with up to 40 participants. No prior booking is required and conferences can be established in the time participants take to call in. The service is easy to use, and it’s available at any time, every day of the year, whenever you need to schedule a meeting.

BT MeetMe Global Access enables you to speak to colleagues, customers and suppliers from any location across the globe, saving you and your participants the cost of an international call. It doesn’t replace all traditional face-to-face meetings but complements them by bringing participants together without anyone having to leave their office. So whatever your role, less time is spent travelling, enabling faster and more responsive decision-making.

Simply pick up the phone, look up and dial your local country access number shown on our website, enter your personal chairperson pin number and you’ll soon be sharing your thoughts and ideas with colleagues wherever they are located.

What’s more, with a few simple clicks, you can control, record or customise your meeting - all via the internet.

This guide provides an overview of the service and a practical introduction to help you make your first call.

If you have any problems, there is always a co-ordinator to talk to or visit our web site for on-line help:

www.conferencing.bt.com

If you would like to find out more about how you can take your conference call online, download the BT MeetMe Online Tools User Guide which has all the details you need.

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How to conduct a BT MeetMe Global Access Call

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TThere’s no need for special equipment or the need to book in advance. Simply follow the instructions below to start using BT MeetMe Global Access today.

Step 1:

Invite the people you wish to meet with and share with them the following information:

• Date, time, and time zone of the meeting

• Participant Passcode ( followed by the sign )

• The appropriate local dial-in numbers for each international participant which you can find on the website address below: www.conferencing.bt.com/globalaccess

You can also inform your participants on how they can find their local dial-in number for the conference call that they have been invited to. You will be required to share with your participants the Global Access URL link for your account, which you will find in your BT MeetMe Global Access account welcome email*.

* If you cannot find your welcome email please call our help desk - 0800 0850 679

Step 2:

• At the start of your meeting, look up and dial your local BT MeetMe Global Access dial-in number which is most convenient to you and then follow the prompts**.

• Then enter your Chairperson’s Passcode, followed by

• Participants to follow the same instructions and enter their Participant Passcode, followed by .

To prevent fraudulent use please do not share your Chairperson’s Passcode.

** If you or your participants have difficulties connecting to your local dial-in numbers please try an alterative local access number. These rare difficulties can be due to telephone network issues which are outside of BT’s control.

Step 3:

That’s it! You will be joined together with your participants on the call and your meeting can begin.

Handy hint

Please advise your participants if they enter the meeting before you, they will be placed on hold in the conference listening to music until you join. If you or your participants are travelling, remind them to print out the dial-in details to take with them.

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To find your BT MeetMe Global Access dial-in numbers please visit the web site address below:

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Conference call controls

Once your meeting is underway, you can use your telephone keypad to control the meeting. Everyone has basic control over their own line while you, as the chairperson, have an extended set of features which includes locking the call for security and checking who has dialled into the call. You can even dial out and invite other people to join your conference call.

Chairperson & Participants touchtone commands

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Operator assistance

Signals the co-ordinator for assistance – they’re available for help and advice.

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Volume equaliser

Equalises your volume automatically – adjusts the volume of your line.

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Participant mute on/off

Mutes/un-mute your phone line,

– useful for noisy connections e.g. mobiles.

Chairperson touchtone commands

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Conference help menu

Listen to the list of available touch-tone conference controls to help you during your conference call.

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Participant roll call

You can play back name recordings to see who’s dialled in.

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Participant count

Tells you the number of attendees who are on your call.

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Mute participants lines

You can mute/unmute all participants lines on your conference call, participants will be placed on ‘listen only’ mode, enabling you to control background noise levels during your call. A great feature for when you need to present to an audience.

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Stop audio message

Stops any audio messages being played into the conference, including the entry message – ideal if people are joining at different times. For example, it won’t play the names of the participants when they join.

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Record start/stop

Instantly record your BT MeetMe call and download the recording after your call to archive or share the recording for future use*.

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Conference lock/unlock

To stop anyone, including the co-ordinator, gaining access to the meeting.

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Enable/disable chairperson hang-up

Allows participants to continue after the chairperson has left.

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End conference

Disconnects all participants at the end of your call. This ensures that your conference ends when you hang up.

* Each recording is charged at a fixed price, subject to your T&Cs.

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Chairperson dial-out

As a chairperson you have the option to call additional participants and ask them to join the meeting. You can call, speak in private and return to the meeting with or without the additional participant.

Step 1:

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Initiates chairperson dial out

As the chairperson, you can call additional participants and ask them to join your call. Press then which will temporarily remove you from your conference call. You will be greeted by a Conferencing Co-ordinator and asked to provide the phone number(s) of the additional participant(s) that you wish to contact to join the call.

Step 2:

You will then be returned to your conference call and your new participant(s) will be joined to your conference if available.

Handy hint:

When you return to the audio conference with a participant, if the name recording function is set to on, there will be a small delay to them joining, as they are prompted to record their name.

BT MeetMe Global Access Online Tools With our simple to use web based tools, you can take your personal meeting room on-line to hold even more effective and interactive meetings.

Online Tools allows you to share thoughts, brainstorm ideas and customise your meeting to suit the way you work.

Plus you have a full visual representation of your call – you can see your virtual meeting room, view icons of the people present and control the meeting via the web. It really is like being there.

To find out how you use BT MeetMe Global Access Online Tools download the user guide here.

To join a BT MeetMe with Online Tools visit:

www.conferencing.bt.com/meetme

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BT MeetMe Recording

With our new simple to use recording facility you can record any BT MeetMe conference call and instantly access it via the web once your call has ended*.

* Each recording is charged at a fixed price, subject to your terms and conditions.

Step 1:

As the chairperson, once you have dialled into your BT MeetMe conference call and entered your chairperson passcode, press then on your telephone keypad and follow the voice prompts to start recording your conference call.

You will hear a prompt saying:

“Enter to start the recording or to return to the conference”.

Press to confirm that you want to start recording your conference.

Press to return to the conference without enabling recording.

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Step 2:

To stop recording your conference, press then and follow the voice prompts to stop recording at any time.

You will hear a prompt saying:

“Enter to stop recording the conference or to return to the conference”

When you press the prompt will inform you that:

“The conference is no longer being recorded”.

When you press the prompt will inform you that:

“You are now rejoining the main conference”.

Participants who join after the recording has started will be informed that the call is being recorded.

Step 3:

When you stop the recording or when the meeting ends, you as the chairperson will receive an email with a web link to a unique webpage where you will be able to retrieve your recording.

Click on the web link as shown by the screenshot below.

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Step 4:

The web link will take you to the BT MeetMe Recording website where you will be asked to enter the following information for security purposes to access your conference recording:

your chairperson passcode your participant passcode

a verification code for security purposes to access your conference recording.

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Step 5:

Once you have entered the BT MeetMe Recording website you will have the options to:

Save your recording to your computer View all saved conference recordings Your conference recording is saved as a .wav file, which should open in any standard media player.

To save your recording follows the steps on the website.

To view all your past recordings select the ‘View all saved conference recordings’ button, as shown below.

Your BT MeetMe Recordings will be stored for 30 days. • • • • Step 6: That’s it!

You now have the option to archive or share the recording by saving the recording directly onto your computer, posting it on a website or forwarding it on to your contacts via an email.

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• You should treat a conference call like any other meeting

• Agree an agenda prior to or at the beginning of your call

• Specify the time zone in meeting invites to avoid meeting delays and confusion

• As the chairperson, agree who will host the call

• At the beginning of your call, conduct a roll call by pressing then to check who is on the call

• Ask the host to introduce meeting participants at the start of the call

• Introduce yourself when speaking and encourage participants to do the same

• Ask your participants to mute their line by pressing then to cut out any background noise when this is present. They can then unmute their line by pressing then

• Be sure to keep your mobile phone a few feet away from your telephone as it can create a ‘hum’ when active

• Take care not to rustle paper, type or make a noise that might disturb the call, unless your line is muted. Press then to mute and then then again to un-mute

• Press then if you need help from a Conference Co-ordinator

• At the end of your call, summarise the key actions and agree the next meeting date and time.

then Co-ordinator Assistance

If there is a discrepancy between the number of lines in the conference and the roll call, use this function and ask for the Conference Co-ordinator to disconnect the line not responding.

then Participant Roll Call

At the beginning of each call, you can use this function to listen to the names of the participants who have joined. This way you are aware of who is on the call and you can determine if there are any unwanted

participants on the call or whether you need to wait for somebody to join before you start.

then Monitor the number of lines Use this function to obtain the number of lines active in the conference. This is a quick way to establish how many participants are on the call without having to do a roll call.

then Conference Lock & Unlock

Use this function to lock or unlock participants entering the call. This feature is useful when you do not want additional parties to join your call after it has begun. Participants attempting

to join a locked call will be directed to the Conference Co-ordinator.

then End the conference

Use this function to disconnect all participants at the end of your call. This ensures that your conference ends when you hang up.

How to keep your audio conference secure

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Volume equaliser

Use this function to get the best possible sound on your conference call.

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Mute participants lines

As a chairperson of the call you can mute all participant’s lines on your conference call. Participants will be placed on ‘listen only’ mode, enabling you to control background noise levels during your call, a great feature for when you need to present to an audience. Use then to unmute your participants to allow everyone to contribute.

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Participant mute On/Off

If you are in a noisy environment or on a mobile phone, all participants can mute their own line when not speaking. This will reduce background noise levels in the conference call.

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Record start/stop

Record your meeting so that participants who couldn’t join the meeting can access it later. Press then to instantly record your audio conference.

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Operator assistance

If you are experiencing any difficulties in your call, you can ask an operator to join your call. They will be able to troubleshoot for you there and then.

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Participant roll call

This function announces all the names of the participants in turn as they have joined the call.

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Participant count

This function will tell you the number of participants on the call.

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Initiates chairperson dial out

As a chairperson you will be able to request that the Conferencing Co-ordinator dials out to another participant to join your call.

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Enable/Disable chairperson hang-up

Usually your conference will end when the chairperson hangs up. If you would like your participants to continue without you, key then .

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For more information contact the BT MeetMe Helpdesk 0800 0850 679

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