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Raise Hand

Abbreviation Expansions If you want attention, use Raise Hand. This posts the Raise Hand icon and plays the Raise Hand hotComm Windows Sound event.

There are several ways you can use Raise Hand:

  • Raise Hand at the end of a public message

    How to: Type a message and click the Raise Hand icon. The icon is in the lower right corner of your hotComm window. A Raise Hand icon appears in the transcript at the end of your message.

  • Raise Hand privately

    How to: Right-click the person's name in the Invited List and select Private Raise Hand. A Raise Hand icon appears as a Private Message.

  • Raise Hand in a private message

    How to: Right-click the person's name in the Invited List and select Private Raise Hand. Type a message and click the Raise Hand icon in the Private Message window. A Raise Hand icon appears at the end of the Private Message.

If you are not connected to a room or session, or are clicking the Raise Hand icon in the main hotComm window without having typed a message, clicking Raise Hand takes you here, to this page in the online User Guide.


Raise Hand sound

To change or disable the Raise Hand sound:

  1. Open your Windows Start menu.
  2. Select Control Panel.
  3. Select Sounds and Audio Devices (this may be called Sounds and MultiMedia).
  4. Select the Sounds tab.
  5. Look in Program Events for hotComm.
  6. Highlight Raise Hand.
  7. To disable it, select None in the Sounds drop-down list. To change it, select a different sound from the Sounds drop-down list, or click Browse to find a different sound.
  8. Click OK.

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