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Share your screen or control of your screen



As a host or presenter in a meeting, you can share windows, applications, or your entire desktop with participants in a meeting.

When you share anything on your computer screen, actions you take in the shared region are visible to all participants in the meeting. Participants follow the progress of your pointer as you move it across your screen.

The region or regions that you share must be visible on your desktop to be visible in the Share pod to other participants. Overlapping windows on the desktop appear as a blue crosshatched pattern in the Share pod.

You can also display a whiteboard over a shared screen to enable attendees to add annotations.

Note: Acrobat Connect Pro administrators can change pod, sharing, and other settings to adhere to standards for governance. These settings affect the layout of meeting rooms and what you can do in meeting rooms. For more information, see Working with compliance and control settings.

Share your computer screen

  1. With a blank Share pod open in a meeting, do one of the following:

    • Click the My Computer Screen button in the middle of a blank Share pod.

    • Click the Share button on the Share pod control strip, and select My Computer Screen from the pop‑up menu.

  2. In the Start Screen Sharing window, do one of the following:

    • Select Desktop to share your entire desktop. If you have more than one monitor connected to your computer, a desktop appears for each monitor. Choose the desktop that you want to share.

    • Select Windows to share one or more windows that are open on your computer. Choose the window or windows that you want to share.

    • Select Applications to share an application and all its related windows that are open on your computer. Choose the application or applications that you want to share.

  3. Click the Share button at the bottom of the Start Sharing window to begin sharing.

Share control of your screen with another presenter

While screen sharing, you can pass control of the shared desktop, window, or application to another presenter. The presenter must request control before you can hand over your shared screen to them.

  1. Start sharing your computer screen in a meeting.
  2. When another presenter requests control of your screen (by clicking the Request Control button on the Share pod control strip), you see a request message in the upper-right corner of the meeting room window. Do one of the following:

    • Click Accept to grant control of your screen to the requesting participant.

    • Click Decline to deny control of your screen to the participant.

Request control of a shared screen from another presenter

Hosts and Presenters can request control of another attendees screen, but the request must be granted by the attendee; control cannot be taken without permission.

  Do one of the following:

  • Click the Request Control button on the Share pod control strip.

  • In the Attendee List pod, hover your mouse over the name of the attendee whose screen you want to control and from the pop-up menu, select Request Screen Share .

If the request is accepted, a message informs you that you have been granted control of the screen. The Request Control button becomes a Release Control button. You can now take control of the shared screen.

Release control of a shared screen

 Click the Release Control button on the Share pod control strip (or in the notification window) to return control of the shared screen to the original presenter.

Preview your shared screen in the meeting room

When sharing an application, window, or desktop on your computer, you can select the Preview option to show the same view that participants see in their Share pod.

 Click the Pod Options button  of the Share pod and select Preview In Pod While Screen Sharing, or click the Preview button . (When you are finished, click Preview again.)