What's New in WebEx this Month?

WebEx, one of our most used conferencing tools at FSCJ, has been a rapidly developing tool for Canvas and our educational needs. This month WebEx has even more exciting new updates and features. All the way from improvements regarding polling to recording enhancements and enhanced view features. Read below to see all of these new and exciting updates!

• Speaker Labeling and Closed-captions Feed Update

  Speaker labels have been added in the closed-captioning box to further enhance live transcript readability. The closed captions feed behavior is also updated. More lines and up to two final utterances can be shown at once, depending on font size. Previous lines stay on screen until the new spoken lines push the script up.

• Introducing People Focus (Beta)

  In this update we're excited to introduce a new way to view Grid View that maximizes screen space by using Artificial Intelligence to dynamically crop videos to focus on the individual, rather than their surroundings.

You’ll get a better face-to-face experience and feel more connected, regardless of how they’re positioned in front of their camera. People Focus can be turned on from the Layout menu when in Grid View and can be turned off at any time.

• Q&A, Chat, and Polling Report for Webinars

Hosts can download the in-webinar activity report for Q&A, chat, and polling for completed webinars. If Q&A or polling is done using Slido, hosts can find that information in Slido's report. This option is only available for recorded webinars. Webinars in webcast view also supports Q&A, chat, and polling.

• Increased High Frame Rate Content Sharing Resolution to 1080p (from 720p)

Webex Meetings app for Mac and Windows now supports up to full HD (1080p) when sharing high frame rate content. This means a higher resolution when using Automatically Optimize and moving between static content and content with a lot of motion.

• Webinars to Support Breakout Sessions

When the host schedules a webinar, they can preassign panelists to different breakout sessions. Attendees can't be preassigned but they can join breakout sessions by clicking the join link. Hosts can create up to 100 breakout sessions. Each breakout session can host up to 1000 attendees.

• Webex Meetings Compliance Policies for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

IT administrators can now prevent users from joining company meetings from a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). This feature leverages registry keys or tokens.

Users can join your company meetings using BYOD only if a registry keys or token is detected on that device.

• Slido

There are several Slido enhancements coming this month including a new look for Slido, visible survey results in participant mode, question topics, and poll templates library.