Working with Raised Hands
During a meeting, any participant can raise a hand to get the Moderator's attention. The list below describes some possible ways for you to work with raised hands during a meeting.
As the Moderator, you can:
- Raise your hand just like any other participant. You might want to raise your hand to signal a presenter to finish a presentation, to ask a question, or to let others know that you have returned after a brief absence.
- Ask a question with Meeting Room chat and tell participants to respond by raising their hands. For example, ask all participants who prefer a certain product design to raise their hands.
- Recognize participants who have raised a hand by speaking to them with computer audio or by sending them a private chat message. For example, a participant might raise a hand and then send a chat message asking for permission to speak.
- Lower the hand of any meeting participant. You might need to lower the hand of a participant who has left the meeting, or you might want to lower everyone's hands after they have responded to a question.
- See how many people in the meeting have raised their hands by looking at the hand icon in the status bar at the bottom of the Meeting Room.
Lowering Hands
You can lower all raised hands or just the hands of selected participants.
- To lower all hands, click the lower all hands button
or choose Tools - Lower All Hands. The hand icons in front of the names disappear.
- To lower selected hands, select the names of the appropriate participants in the Participant List and right-click. Choose Lower Selected Hands from the shortcut menu that appears. (You can also select names in the Participant List, and then choose Tools - Lower Selected Hands.) The hand icons in front of the selected names disappear.
Sorting By Raised Hands
You can sort the names in the Participant List by the order in which participants have raised their hands. Sorting by raised hands is helpful if the meeting has so many participants that the Participant List cannot display all of their names at once.
To sort by raised hands, click the hand icon at the top of the Participant List. The name at the top of the list is the first person who raised a hand. To return the Participant List to alphabetical order, click Name at the top of the list.