VOICE CONFERENCING AND MODERATION OVERVIEW

This page contains a brief overview on using the voice conferencing and moderation features of the voice chat room. There are 6 different types of voice chat room users: Spectator: a person who can login to the room and read text messages, but cannot participate in the room Normal: a person who may text chat or one-to-one voice chat, but has no administrative capabilities Monitor: a person with normal user capabilities who also has the power to kick and ban normal users Moderator: a person with monitor capabilities who can voice speak to the entire room, appoint speakers, silence users, and who can control conference-style text chat sessions Speaker: a person who can voice speak to the entire room, and who can receive text messages from regular users passed to him/her by a moderator Administrator: a person who controls the setup of the room and who appoints moderators and speakers Important To see the moderator or conferencing controls, you must first be assigned as a moderator. Only the room administrator can assign moderators. This is done by clicking the Manage Users tab followed by the View User List link in your Chat Room Manager. Select the user you would like to make a moderator and click the [moderator] button. To login to the room as a moderator, the user must login using the regular user login form, not the administartor login form found in your Chat Room Manager. Voice Conferencing Voice conferencing allows a moderator to speak to the entire room at once, which is called a "Broadcast." (Note: normal users can only participate in one-to-one conversations.) To start a Broadcast, a moderator must do the following: Click the [Start Broadcast] button located on the Moderator/Speaker tab of the chat room applet. The chat room applet should then report Starting Broadcast Session After several seconds, the chat room applet should say the broadcast has started. At this point, the moderator can begin speaking into his/her microphone to everyone in the chat room. When the moderator wants to stop speaking to the everyone, he/she must click the [Stop Broadcast] button. [See the Glossary for more indepth information about the types of users.] NOTE: A moderator can still participate in one-to-one voice conversations by clicking the Voice Chat tab. However, a moderator cannot particpate in a one-to-one conversation and a broadcast simultaneously. Room Moderator In a moderated chat room, all text messages from normal users are directed to the moderators in the room. These messages are not displayed immediately to everyone in the chat room. Upon receipt of a message, a moderator decides whether to pass the message or to delete it. A moderator may pass a message to everyone in the room or to a Speaker. (See the Glossary for information on the Pass Ratio feature.) When a speaker receives a message, he/she can reply to it, with the option of quoting the original message. Moderator Interface Overview A Moderator may: Send his/her messages to the users, speakers, or both Pass messages to speakers Delete selected messages Kick a selected user Pass all messages automatically to speakers (stop moderating temporarily) Silence a user Silence everyone Temporarily appoint users as speakers