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Document number: HCCL.h.3.00.03
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hotComm Conference Lite (hotComm CL) is a Windows program that you can use to connect to a hotComm Room as a Guest, a Presenter, or a Moderator.

To see Help in a browser, click the hotGuide titlebar and then press CTRL and N at the same time).

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Basics

To use hotComm CL:

Double-click the hotComm CL startup icon on your desktop.

hotComm CL minimizes to a tiny headset icon in the lower-right corner of your entire Windows desktop.

(Right-clicking on this icon gives a menu of interesting options. See Icon Menu.)

Enter a name that will be your hotComm Conference Lite Identity, and click OK. Your identity is saved for future sessions, but you can change it later. See Icon Menu.

Wait while hotComm CL connects to the 1stWorks Network. When the earphones on the tiny hotComm headset icon change from white to Red and blue, you are connected (online).

Offline (white earphones)

Online (red and blue earphones)

Click the special web link that connects you to the room, and enter your password.

The link is given to you by someone before the meeting.

The password determines the level of features available to you during the meeting.

If you are ...	Then ...
Guest	You view presentations, and communicate by voice and text chat.
Presenter	In addition, you can present visual content.
Moderator	In addition, you can control the session.

You then connect to the session, and participate in the session.

Connected to session

Type messages in the lower white panel.
Read the message transcript in the upper white panel.
For Microphone, Sounds, Audio recording, hotCam (charts, slides, presentation materials) and webcam, see Middle Toolbar Features.
For status information and emoticons see Bottom Toolbar Features.
To change identity or exit hotComm CL, see Icon menu.
For sending Private Messages, see Invited List.

Close and exit

Close session	Click the Close button (Red X) in the hotComm CL toolbar.
Close session and minimize hotComm CL	Click the Windows Close button (X) in the upper right corner of the hotComm CL window.
Exit hotComm CL	Right-click the hotComm headset icon in the lower right corner of your desktop, and select Exit.

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Invited List

This panel lists the Identities of the people who are in the session.

The little icons next to their Identities tell you several things:

Icon	Meaning
Microphone	Person has their microphone turned on.
Green dot	This is you. Each person sees themself with a green dot.
Red headphones	The Room server robot or remote SysOp.
Blue CL	A hotComm CL Presenter or Moderator.
Yellow CL	A hotComm CL Guest.
Yellow or blue J	A browser client Guest.

Private Message. To send a private text message to someone in the session, double-click their name in the Invited List, type the message and click Send now. Only you and they can see the message.

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Middle Toolbar Features

These are the Middle Toolbar features:

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Microphone

You can talk, using VoIP (voice over Internet). Note that this may be disabled by the presenter.

Stays on
Click the Microphone button to turn the microphone on. It stays on until you click the button again.
Push-to-talk
Press-and-hold the Microphone button while you record a message. The message is played when you release the button.

To change microphone settings, right-click the microphone button.

More information: See Voice Chat in the online User Guide.

Sounds

hotComm provides a set of sounds that you can send during a session. hotComm and IM-Live Java users can hear the sounds through their computer speakers, and see text such as <Applause!> in the panel above the Middle Toolbar.

To send a sound, click the Send Sounds button (Ear) and select a sound from the menu.

More information: See Sounds in the online User Guide.

Record
Audio

To record the audio portion of the session, click the Audio button. To stop recording, click the button again.

The recording is stored as a WAV file in the hotComm T'SCRIPTS folder on your Windows desktop. It can be played with any standard WAV file player.

Close
Session

To close the session, click this Close button.

Note: Although this closes your session, hotComm CL continues to run. To completely exit hotComm CL, right-click the headset icon in the lower right corner of your Windows taskbar and select Exit.

Help

To open this help file, click this button.

hotCam

See Presenters.

WebCam

See Presenters.

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Bottom Toolbar Features

These are the Bottom Toolbar features:

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Status

Look in the Status area for information about the session -- for example, to see if anyone is speaking, or if the mic is silent.

Audio-On

Click the Audio-On area to control what you hear:

Option	Description
Audio-On	All sounds and voice are heard.
Mute-Gun+	Sounds (such as the gunshot and applause) are muted, but you can still hear voice.
Mute-All	All voice and sounds are silent.

lineEnders

To post an emoticon at the end of a message, right-click on the smiley face icon and then left-click on a lineEnder icon.

Typing mode

Click in the Word are to control how you send messages:

Option	Description
Word	Send one word at a time
Line	Send the entire message when you press your Enter key.

Connection

This describes your connection to the 1stWorks Network.

Identity

This shows your current identity, as seen by the others in the session.

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Presenters

Presenters have additional capabilities.

hotCam Presentations

You can use the hotCam virtual digital camera to send snapshots and show content presentations. Guests do not see this icon.

Right-click on the icon and select a camera option.

Option	Description
Still	Single snapshot.
Timed (1s) Application	Updated snapshots in timed intervals.
Timed (1s) Window	Updated snapshots of one window in a multi-windowed application, in timed intervals.

Left-click on the icon. The icon changes color and lifts up.

Move the icon to the window you want to send as a snapshot, click the window's title bar to bring the window to the front, and then click anywhere in the window to take the snapshot.

Use the hotPointer cursor (an arrow) as a pointer on the screen. You can turn the cursor off and on by clicking the arrow icon on the lower left corner of your hotComm window.

More information: These basic instructions don't even scratch the surface of what you can do with hotCam and presentations. Please see information in our Support area, including the online User Guide, and in Training with Professor hotComm.

hotWeb

Use hotWeb to send a webpage. Type the address in the hotWeb toolbar, or select a page from your Internet Explorer favorites list.

The webpage opens in a hotWeb window, which has menus containing collaboration features. Please note that some, but not all, of these features are included in hotComm CL.

More information: see hotWeb in the online User's Guide.

Webcam

If the room is webcam-enabled, you can send full-motion video through webcam. Left-click the webcam icon in the middle toolbar to start sending video.

More information: See Webcam in the online User's Guide.

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Moderators

In addition to having all the Guest and Presenter capabilities, Moderators can control the session.

Session Control

Use the Session Control toolbar options to control what guests can do in the room. Click each icon to toggle between enabling and disabling the feature.

	Enable / disable
Keyboard and Sounds	Typing in the typing area and sending sounds.
Private Messages	Sending private messages (see Invited List.
hotWeb	Sending web pages through hotWeb.
hotCam	Using the hotCam camera.
Microphone on stand	Toggle between Normal (open mic) and Push-to-talk mode.
Microphone - 1	Microphone use

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hotComm Icon Menu

The hotComm CL icon menu contains options for managing your hotComm CL. To see the menu, right-click the hotComm icon (headset) in the lower right corner of your Windows Taskbar.

The options are:

Restore	Opens a hotComm CL session.
Exit	Exits the hotComm CL program.
Change Identity	Select this to change your Identity. Then, close and restart hotComm CL.
Autostart	To start hotComm CL automatically when Windows starts, select Auto Start hotComm CL.
Set S1 window On-Top	This keeps the hotComm CL window on top of any other windows.
About hotComm CL	Shows revision number and copyright information.
hotComm home	Goes to the hotComm website.
Help	Opens this help file.

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For more information, see the hotComm Support web site.

Please send comments about this document to Support@1stWorks.com.