Using your Webex Personal Room
Personal Meeting Room
As part of your Webex account you have the ability to utilize a personal room for having impromptu meeting. This is a great option if you wanted to connect with peers and colleagues, students and even external campus partners to have a more in-depth conversation than over email.
The personal room differs from pre-planned or schedule meetings only based on the meeting link or url that is generated. When using the personal meeting room, the link for anyone to connect remains constant for every meeting and usage. A pre-planned or scheduled meeting will generate a unique meeting link or URL for each meeting time. The meeting link for your personal meeting room will be https://ptsem.webex.com/meet/firstname.lastname.
The personal meeting room is also already set up and enabled for your account. There is not additional steps you need to do to set up access.
To Access your personal Meeting Room Via Web Browser
To access your Personal meeting room from you web browser
- Open your preferred web browser
- enter the web address of https://ptsem.webex.com
- Click sign in on the upper right hand corner of the screen
- Enter your full Seminary Email address and click Next
- On the Seminary Sign In page enter your full email address and password. Click Sign In
- Once you reach the main webex page you will see your personal meeting room information in the center of the screen
- Click Start a Meeting.
Webex will begin a meeting using your Personal meeting room. From here all of the standard meeting options and tools will apply, including screen sharing, polling, chat, invite and remind and the ability to lock the meeting to make it private.
How to Access your Personal meeting Room via the Desktop Application
To access your Personal meeting room for the desktop application on your computer
- Open the Cisco Webex Meetings application
- Once open ensure that you are signed in. You can tell if you are signed in if your personal meeting room information appears at the top of the application.
- Click the Start a Meeting button
Webex will begin a meeting using your Personal meeting room. From here all of the standard meeting options and tools will apply, including screen sharing, polling, chat, invite and remind and the ability to lock the meeting to make it private.
If you are not signed into the application, when you open it, you will be asked to provide your log in credentials. please keep in mind that this will utilize your full PTS email address and password.
Securing or Locking your Personal Meeting Room
Securing or locking your personal meeting is a good option not only to keep your meeting private but to prevent people from joining when they are not supposed to. Since the Personal meeting room has a consistent web address there is the possibility of overlap of people in meetings, i.e. one person joining while finishing a discussing with another person. To Prevent this overlap it is recommended your secure your meeting.
To secure or lock your meeting, after you meeting has begun and your attendees have joined:
- Locate the meeting tools at the bottom of the Webex window
- Click on the meeting options button (Three dots)
- Click Lock meeting
For this point on, no one else will be able to join the meeting.
When you are done you conversation and would like for another person to join, you will need to unlock the meeting. To unlock the meeting:
- Locate the meeting tools at the bottom of the Webex window
- Click on the meeting options button (Three dots)
- Click Unlock Meeting
Once unlocked, other attendees will be able to join the personal meeting room.