Click here for a guided tour of basic options in a Boardable Video Conferencing session.

For a video tutorial on these options, please see the below.

For advanced information, please reference this help article.

Video conferencing on a meeting can be started by the following users:

To do so, and let all invitees join:

The following preferences can be set from the video conferencing screen:

To learn how to use each of these options, please see Related Articles.

To open the Boardable Video Settings menu, click the gear icon ( ⚙) at the top left side of the conferencing screen.

In a video conferencing session, it's possible to view all participant video feeds at once, or to maximize the video feed of the speaking participant.

To view multiple video feeds at once, use Grid view. This displays 6 participants at a time. To scroll between participants, click the angle brackets (<>) on the left and right sides of the video conferencing screens.

To maximize the speaker's video feed, use Speaker view.

The toggle to switch between these two options is available at the top right side of the page.

Regardless of the view selected, a participants' video feeds can be pinned to the right side of the conferencing screen.

Pinning a video feed makes this feed visible at the same time as the grid or speaker view. This can ensure best possible visibility of the pinned participant's visibility for the person who uses the pin.

Using this option only pins the selected participant on the viewer's conferencing screen; one person pinning a certain participant does not also pin this same participant for all others in the session.

Each new pin replaces the previous pin.

A participant can pin themself via the steps below:

To pin a participant other than the viewer:

To unpin a participant:

Boardable video lets participants view the following content on the same screen as the video feeds.

How much of the screen is used by the content panel is customizable. The following options are supported:

To maximize the content panel, and compress the video feed:

To view the agenda within a video conferencing session, click the Agenda button (the button showing three dots and three lines) from the content menu at the leftmost side of the screen.

Before the meeting minutes are published, only the following users can view them from the video conferencing screen:

To view, edit, or take meeting minutes from the video conferencing screen:

To view the meeting documents, including agenda attachments if any from the video conferencing screen:

To open this help article, click the help (?) button at bottom of the content menu at the left side of the screen.

From the options menu at the bottom of the screen, the following options are accessible:

When a participant's video feed is off, preventing other participants from seeing it, their camera button is labeled Turn on.

When a participant's video feed is on, the camera button is labeled Turn off.

To switch between the two options, click the camera button.

To access the Background Effects field in video settings via the camera button:

To access other fields in video settings via the camera button:

A participant can remove their own video feed from their view of the conferencing screen via the steps below:

This option is only available when more than one participant has joined the conferencing session.

When a participant's microphone is off, preventing other participants from hearing it, their camera button is labeled Unmute.

When a participant's microphone is on, and other participants can hear them, the microphone button is labeled Mute.

To switch between the two options, click the microphone button.

To change the microphone heard by other participants without opening the Boardable Video Settings menu:

To change the speaker used to hear the conference without opening the Boardable Video Settings menu:

To enable or disable noise reduction without opening the Boardable Video Settings menu:

To learn other available audio options, please see Related Articles.

All participants can view the display names or phone numbers of others in the meeting, and pin or hide their video feeds.

To do so:

Admins can mute others, turn off their cameras, promote them to boardable video admin, and even remove them from a call.

To do so:

Meetings can support up to 200 people participating. To request larger meeting size, please contact Support.

To view the session's chat, click Chat from the meeting options menu at the bottom of the conferencing screen This opens the meeting information panel opens on the right side of the conferencing screen, set to the Chat tab

To add a message to the session's chat:

To learn more about chat, please see Related Articles

Any participant can send the following reaction to the conferencing screen of all others in the session:

To do so:

Any participant can virtually raise their hand. Their raised hand is noted the following places:

To do so, click Raise 🖐 from the meeting options menu at the bottom of the conferencing screen.

Any participant can share their screen with others in the conferencing session. On doing so, the view of others in the session will be set to Speaker view, with the contents of the sharer's screen pinned.

To do so:

To check whether the network connection in use can best support the session:

For more on troubleshooting Boardable Video, please see Related Articles.

Text transcription of the most recent spoken words is available from the meeting options menu. This can display up to 10 lines of text.

To expand or minimize captions, click Captions from the meeting options menu at the bottom of the conferencing screen.

Any participant can start a session recording. To do so:

To learn more about recording, please see Related Articles.