Webex Site Upgrade to Version 42.6 - June 2nd, 2022
Posted: 2022-05-31 08:42:36 Expiration: 2022-07-11 08:42:36
This month's Webex update includes some great new features including use of an external USB camera or built-in camera to share content, allow embedded apps to be opened in stage view, grid view support for up to 81 videos and more!
Highlighted features for this update
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Grid view support for up to 81 videos
Grid view in Meetings, Webinars, and Events (classic) can now support up to 81 simultaneous videos per page! This gives you the ability to see even more thumbnail videos in large meetings.
You can set your preferred maximum numbers of videos to show in grid view in the Meetings settings.
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Support webinar series
Webinar series brings a simple registration experience where registrants can select and register for multiple webinars at once.
Webinar series owners can add webinars to a series. They can invite their team to a series as contributors. Contributors can also add their webinars to a series and manage the series. All webinars in the series will use the same registration form. The webinar owners manage registration approval for the webinars that they own.
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Allow Embedded Apps to be opened in stage view
Third-party apps opened in Webex Meetings can now be opened in stage, not just in the Apps panel. Some apps are better used in full screen so now users can open those apps in stage view.
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Use external USB camera or built-in camera to share content
In the June (42.6) update, Windows and Mac users can share their built-in or external camera content as if they are sharing their screen during a meeting or webinar. Attendees can view what the user is seeing and sharing using the camera in full screen mode and also view self-video of the participant who is sharing camera content. If users share built-in camera as content sharing source, self-video continues to work.
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Slido updates
There are several Slido enhancements coming this month. See the In-meeting experience section for more information. For more product details see https://community.sli.do/product-news-23.
Pre-meeting experience
- Final release of Productivity Tools
The June (42.6) release is the last release for Productivity Tools. Microsoft Outlook customers who wish to schedule Webex meetings from Microsoft Outlook must move to the Webex Scheduler add-in.
- Update to the error message during meeting start or join
To ensure you have a good support experience when faced with join meeting issues, we are adding a few more details to the error message dialogs shown to the user. With the next update, you can see a meaningful high level description of the error a user has run into. A meeting details component contains any other details surrounding the error including the error code.
In-meeting experience
- Allow Embedded Apps to be opened in stage view
Third-party apps opened in Webex Meetings can now be opened in stage, not just in the Apps panel. Some apps are better used in full screen so now users can open those apps in stage view.
- Use external USB camera or built-in camera to share content
In the June (42.6) update, Windows and Mac users can share their built-in or external camera content as if they are sharing their screen during a meeting or webinar. Attendees can view what the user is seeing and sharing using the camera in full screen mode and also view self-video of the participant who is sharing camera content. If users share built-in camera as content sharing source, self-video continues to work.
- Share content window can be resized
You can now scale the Share content window to make it bigger. This makes it easier to see more of the windows you have open without having to scroll.
- Someone is typing indication in Polls
There is an indication if someone is still typing on present mode, this is helpful for presenters to see if everyone is done submitting their responses.
- Participant Privacy
This new feature allows hosts to set whether participants are anonymous or named during events. You can lock the setting or allow your participants to choose which option they want.
-- Cisco Webex: Shawn Thiele