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160 Chapter 11: About Seminars
Accessing the Seminar library
The Seminar library is where seminar files and folders are stored. Breeze users who have the
correct permissions can manage and organize files and folders in the Seminar library. You reach
the Seminar library through the Seminar Rooms tab. When you click the Seminar Rooms tab, the
Seminar List page displays the contents of the Shared Seminars folder. Depending on your
permissions, you can create these seminars or modify them. For more information, see
“About the
Seminar library” on page 181 .
The seminars you are s cheduled to attend appear on the Home tab of your Breeze Manager
application, not the Seminar Rooms tab. For details, see Chapter 1, “Understanding the
Workspace,” on page 15 .
About seminar terminology and attributes
Before you can attend a seminar, or create and manage seminars, you should become familiar with
the following terminology and characteristics of Breeze seminars:
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“Seminar versus meeting room” on page 160
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“Seminar roles” on page 160
Seminar versus meeting room
Macromedia Breeze Manager is unique among web meeting applications because you use it not
only to schedule online seminars at particular times, but also to create meeting rooms. You create
a virtual meeting room before a seminar starts and, just as a physical meeting room exists, the
virtual meeting room continues to exist after a seminar ends.
A seminar is a gathering of people and resources in a particular place on a particular day between
certain start and end times. The seminar itself exists only for that period of time.
A meeting room
exists before, during, and after the seminar. The meeting room location is a
URL, assigned by the system when the seminar is created. When you click the URL, you start the
Flash application in your browser. Then you enter a virtual meeting room that Flash constructs
for you; here, you can perform online all those activities that you would do in a physical meeting
room. Depending on the permissions that the host has assigned to the seminar, attendees can visit
the meeting room after the seminar to view content or follow up on action items, and so on.
Seminar roles
When hosts create a seminar, they can add Breeze users to its list of attendees and specify each
attendee’s role for the seminar as one of the following:
Presenter
A presenter can screen share, chat, broadcast live audio and video, customize the
meeting room layout, and show content to the participants. The content can be Breeze
presentations, slides (PPT files), Flash files and Captivate simulations (SWF files), Flash Video
files (FLV files), images (JPEG files), and web pages (HTML files).
Participant A participant can view the content that the presenter is showing or sharing, and
hear and see the presenter’s audio and video broadcast.