Hosting a meeting

The layout of the meeting workspace is the same no matter which user role you have in a meeting. The host, organizer and/or co-organizer, however, has more options than regular attendees:

The host can use all of the options described below (but can only add attendees if he or she is also the organizer) and end the meeting as described in "Leaving or ending a meeting".

The organizer and co-organizers (if any) can select a different host or note taker, edit the agenda and end the meeting. The organizer can also add attendees.

For more information on the layout of the meeting workspace, see "Attending a meeting" in the Attendee Guide.

Navigating from topic to topic

Click Next Topic or Previous Topic to navigate from topic to topic in the agenda.

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Click the topic name in the full agenda shown to the left.

The topic you select in this way is shown in the topic pane for all attendees.

If you are both note taker and host, and you switch to another agenda topic in order to add a note to it, the new topic is shown in the topic pane for all attendees. In order to avoid this, select a different note taker and/or host as described below. If you are only note taker, you can add notes or use meeting tools for other agenda topics than the one currently being discussed without updating the topic pane; if you do so, the other attendees will not be able to see your notes or the results of using the meeting tools until the host selects the topic they apply to. For more information, see "Taking meeting notes" and "Using the meeting tools".

Selecting a different note taker and host

By default, the organizer or co-organizer who started the meeting is also the note taker and host (unless someone else was appointed for these roles when initializing the meeting; for more information, see "Initializing a meeting") but may assign these roles to other attendees during the meeting.

Click Attending and select a different note taker and/or host in the dialog that opens.

The note taker and host must be logged into MeetingBooster and must have joined the meeting.

For more information on taking notes and other options available to the note taker, see "Taking meeting notes", "Adding attachments and hyperlinks to topics", "Assigning files added during a meeting", "Parking agenda topics" and "Using the meeting tools". For more information on user roles in MeetingBooster, see "Understanding user roles".

Adding attendees

Only the organizer can add attendees during the meeting.

Click Attending

Click + Attendee  or + Guest to add more attendees to the meeting if required.

Editing the agenda

Click Edit Agenda to edit the meeting agenda. For more information, see "Editing an agenda during a meeting".

Handling breaks

When it is time for a scheduled break, a break reminder is shown.

At this point, you have three options. Do one of the following:

Click Take to start the scheduled break.

Click Dismiss to dismiss the break.

Click Postpone and select how long the break should be postponed (5, 10 or 15 minutes or after the current topic).

If you do not click any of the buttons, the break starts automatically after approximately 5 seconds.

The break reminder is shown at the actual scheduled time. In other words, if a meeting is started ahead of or after the scheduled time, the reminder is still shown at the scheduled time, even though the topic preceding the break may have exceeded its allocated end time, or may not have reached it yet.

Taking a break

The remaining time of the break is shown.

Click End Break to end the break immediately.

When the break is over, the meeting resumes from the subsequent topic.

Dismissing a break

If you dismiss a scheduled break from the Break Reminder dialog, the meeting continues from the same agenda topic as before the break reminder. A message is shown at the top of the meeting workspace, reminding you that it is time for a break.

Click Start from the message to start the scheduled break, or click Skip to dismiss it altogether.

If you subsequently use the Next Topic button or the agenda view in the topic pane to go to the skipped break, it starts automatically.

Returning to a break

If you use the Previous Topic button or the agenda view in the topic pane to go back to a break and stay there for 5 seconds, the break is re-activated, and the Break in progress screen reappears. Even if all of the scheduled break time has been used, the break does not end. However, a message saying "Break time over" is displayed to indicate that the break has lasted longer than scheduled.

For more information on breaks, see "Adding breaks to an agenda".