Introduction

With IBM Lotus Sametime, you can meet with anyone, anywhere, anytime.  You can collaborate with your coworkers in many ways, including: 

• Sending chat messages and transferring files to your coworkers in real time
• Communication with computer audio and video
• Editing shared files and saving your changes
• Sending web pages and poll questions to meeting participants
• Recording your meeting so that other people can view it later

Functionality

Lotus Sametime provides several core capabilities.  Some of the core functionality includes: 

• Chat Room:  You can engage in chat sessions with multiple participants
• Live Video and Audio:  Participants have the ability tointeractively communicate with others in the Sametime meeting room
• Share Programs: The meeting moderator can share his or her presentation via the share program's feature.  For example, the moderator can deliver PowerPoint presentations using this capability;
• Share Entire Screen -- Participants can view the moderator's desktop and follow along the moderator's screen

 To learn more each of these components, click on any of the above links.

Access Lotus Sametime

To access Lotus Sametime:

• 1. Visit the Lotus Sametime Homepage at http://sametime.rhsmith.umd.edu/ directly, use your web-based iNotes username and internet password to login;
  or
• 2. Login to the eSmith Portal, go to Links tab, and select Sametime under Smith Communities area.

How to Create a Meeting

To create a scheduled meeting, start by clicking Schedule a Meeting on the Sametime Welcome Page.  Five new meeting tabs will appear:

• Essentials
• Files
• Security
• Tools
• Locations

To create the meeting, you must enter all of the information on the Essentials tab.

Before you create a scheduled meeting, make sure that you are logged on to Sametime. 

For more detailed instructions click here

Attending a Meeting

• To attend a meeting, click on ALL meetings on the Sametime homepage (you will have to log in).  Meetings that are currently available, as well as scheduled meetings, will appear
• Click on the name of the meeting.  When you do this, the Sametime meeting room will launch.

For more detailed instructions click here

Lotus Sametime chat

Lotus Sametime Chat enables you to chat with multiple participants.  The names and status of the people viewing the same discussion are listed in the Participant list at the bottom right of the window.  If the person is online, the author's name is displayed in bold green.  For more information visit the Lotus Sametime Chat page.