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3-Way Conferencing

You can use a tap phone right at your desk to connect to two additional participants. At least one on-campus participant must remain on the call throughout the conference. How to Use Your Tap Phone

The Polycom phone is useful for a group of people in a conference room to participate in a call with two additional participants. At least one on-campus participant must remain on the call throughout the conference.

The Polycom is available to rent from Telecommunications for $10 per day. To use the Polycom phone, your conference room must have an analog phone jack. If you are not sure what type of jack is available or if it is active, please contact your department’s IT Liaison or Networking & Telecommunications at x1595.

6-Way Conferencing

With the Meridian 2616 display phone, you can add up to five participants besides yourself to a conference. The speaker quality of a Meridian 2616 display phone is excellent, so you could also have a group of people [around the desk or table where that phone is located] participating in the call. At least one on-campus participant must remain on the call throughout the conference. How to Use Your 2616 Phone

With your Cisco 7960 IP phone, you can add up to five participants besides yourself to a conference. As with the other phones, at least one on-campus participant must remain on the call for the duration of the conference. How to User Your 7960 IP Phone

MeetingPlace Audio and Web Conferencing

It is important to contact Telecommunications at x1595 to establish your usage on the calendar in order to prevent the potential disruption and disconnect of a conference that is already in progress.

MeetingPlace Conferencing (MPC) is both an audio and Web conferencing service that can be used separately or together. This conferencing service features the ability to:

Have an audio and/or web conference with up to 90 participants
Use Web conferencing to present or collaborate live by sharing your desktop or specific documents (MPC presenter plugin required and E-Learning Modules should be reviewed before holding the web conference).
Record meetings for later playback or for archival.
To learn more about this valuable service please visit http://meetingplace.umkc.edu

The cost is $10 per conference. All calls into the system are included for an unlimited number of participants. A toll-free number is available for participants to access the meeting but the department will be charged at the standard University rate of 10-cents per minute for participants using this number. You should not advertise the toll-free number unless you want participants to use it.

If you want to use this service, please call Telecommunications at x1595 or email phillipsdeb@umkc.edu and provide the following information:

1. Date of your call (if the call is going to be recurring, please provide as many dates as possible)
2. Time of your call (include beginning and end time as close as possible)
3. Department
4. MoCode to be charged
5. Name of authorized signer
6. Moderator
7. Departmental coordinator if applicable
8. If you expect participants to be using the toll-free number

If the email is sent by someone other than the authorized signer, please cc the authorized signer. Telecommunications will send all pertinent information/instructions to the coordinator and the moderator. Participant Instructions ONLY should be forwarded to the participants. Please do not forward moderator instructions to the participants.