1. Skype For Business
SUMMER OF SKYPE 2018

2. Advanced Features

3. Skype for Business Advanced Features
Sharing your desktop
If you are the presenter, you can show your entire desktop or choose to show just a selected file or PowerPoint slideshow to everyone in a Skype for Business meeting.
When you share your desktop, everyone participating can see your entire desktop including notifications.
You should also note that while you are presenting, your Skype for Business status is automatically changed to Busy, all instant messages and calls are therefore blocked.
At the bottom of the conversation window, click the Present / Content Share icon
From the Present tab, select one of the following:
To share the content on your desktop, click Present Desktop...
Select the desktop to share, and click Present
On the sharing toolbar at top of the screen, you can:
Click Stop Presenting when you want to stop presenting your screen
Click Give Control to share control of your desktop or program with the participants
Click the pin to hide the toolbar and have more space
To select an option from the hidden toolbar, move your mouse to the top of the screen and when the sharing toolbar appears, use any of the controls you need, or click the pin again to keep the toolbar visible
Present PowerPoint Slides
During a meeting, you can open and share a PowerPoint presentation. By uploading the presentation in the Skype for Business meeting, you can annotate slides, have someone else take over as presenter and check your presenter notes.
Click Notes to see your presenter notes during the presentation – these are only visible to you as the presenter
Use the annotation tools (click the pencil in the top right) to draw, highlight etc.
Click Stop Presenting when you are finished

4. Click to see Participants
Skype for Business Advanced Features
Whiteboarding
You can share ideas with the people in your conversation / conference call using a whiteboard.
From within a conversation (IM or call), click on the Present/Share Content button:
Click More
Choose Whiteboard
Click to see Participants
If you click to see participants, you can see more controls:
Participants can use the annotation tools to write, type and draw:
You can save your whiteboard file.
More options

5. Skype for Business Advanced Features
Co-Authoring
From within a conversation (IM or call), click on the Present/Share Content button:
Click Co-Author Office Doc…
You will see a warning: Click Ok
Browse to find the document you want to co-edit.
You will see the Skype conversation as well as the document:
As you edit the document you will see the names of the people editing and a colour-coded cursor to indicate where they are working:
You can continue your conversation while you work.
Your document will automatically save.

7. Competition outline ‘Skype bingo’  
Competition: Teams of up to 10 ppl for Skype Bingo – so will need to register team by a certain date. Must take screen shots of at least 5 activities. Winning team gets pizza for lunch! The bingo card is available on the TW3 microsite
Tasks for Skype weekly challenges / bingo card game below:
Week 1 – Instant Messenger
Week 2 - Skype Telephony
Week 3 – Conference calls
Week 4 – Advanced features
IM a team member via Skype
Skype call someone (chat)
Present a PowerPoint via Screen Share
Use Skype Whiteboard feature
Change status
Add contacts
Host a virtual Skype meeting – via Outlook
Use Skype polls to rate how the meeting went
Group IM as a team
Skype call someone (video) users might not have a webcam though - so optional