Synchronized Browsing

 

The Synchronized Web Browsing feature of your webinar room allows
the audience to follow along with a presenter's web browser.

To begin a synchronized browsing presentation, log in with moderator privileges and enable Synchronized Browsing under the moderator menu.

A moderator with synchronized browsing enabled appears italicized and in blue, as shown here:

Now, when John the presenter pulls up a Google search, Alice's browser will follow along.

If the room was in whiteboard mode, then sending a page with synchronized browsing will return everyone to the embedded web browser.

The room administrator may disable browsing by non-moderators, which will hide the current browser location from Alice. This setting is controlled on the Settings page of the room control panel, shown here.

When browsing by non-moderators is disabled in the room, Alice will see the same content as John, but not the current URL, and clicking on hyperlinks will have no effect in her browser.

Because web form submissions are also synchronized, it is possible for John to lead participants into password protected areas. Note that everyone in the audience who "follows along" will log in to the password protected site using the same credentials as John.

Because frame sets cannot be reliably synchronized on all platforms, synchronized browsing of content in framesets is neither recommended nor supported.

For best results, organize presentation materials into individual web pages that do not utilize frames.