We recently made significant improvements to the way in which online meetings can be synchronized using Cozimo. If you are online together with a number of people reviewing the content in a collaboration folder, any person can click on the Presentation Mode link next to the navigation arrows to take control of the navigation. The name of the person presenting will then be displayed to all participants. If desired, another person can take control by clicking on the name of the current presenter.

When the person in control clicks on a navigation arrow to advance to the next or previous item, all people who are looking at that same item will advance at the same time. If a meeting participant happens to have independently moved away from the currently presented item (or comes to the meeting late) the presenter mode changes to “join session”. Clicking on this link will then advance the person to the item currently being presented.

If a multi-page PDF or Video clip is being presented, then all meeting participants will be synchronized to be viewing the same page or video frame as the presenter. Note that zoom and pan functions are not synchronized between participants so as to not interfere with any drawing that a person may be doing. A presenter (or any participant for that matter) can draw people’s attention to a particular region of the screen by using the “Region of Interest” tool.