How to use Skype Meeting Broadcast

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Scheduling a broadcast

  1. Go to the event scheduling portal by typing into your browser.
  2. Select New meeting to create a new event.
  3. Complete the Meeting details section.
  4. Complete the Event team section (email addresses of your event team members).
  5. Complete the Attendees section. Attendees are event viewers. Select Done to save your event.
  6. Copy the Join link URL from Meeting summary page into your Microsoft Outlook invitation, and send it to your audience.

Customizing a broadcast

  1. Go to the Meeting summary page, and select Customize.
  1. On the Attendee page settings page, add apps for audience participation. Select the location of the apps on the screen (to the right or below).
  2. To add a Yammer conversation to your meeting, select Yammer, and then select Select.
  3. In the Yammer Group ID box, enter the Yammer group ID (at the end of the group URL). The Prompt text and Yammer Group Network name boxes are optional.
  4. To add a Bing Pulse survey, select Bing Pulse, and then select Select.
  5. Go to and sign in with your account. Create a Bing Pulse event.
  6. Make your Bing Pulse event live by selecting the green Make Pulse live button. Make a note of the event URL.
  7. Enter the last part of the URL (such as “event”) into the Pulse ID box in the Skype Broadcast scheduler. Enter the next-to-last part (such as “account”) into the Pulse Account box. Your Bing Pulse survey is now embedded.
  8. Select Save and then Close.

Starting a broadcast

  1. Go to the event scheduling portal by typing into your browser. Open your event and select the Copy Event Link URL.
  1. Paste the link into a new browser window. The Join the eventpage will appearforthose on the event team.
  2. SelectSign in as event team member.
  3. To turn on video,select the Video button in the Skype Meeting Broadcast client and then select Start My Video.
  4. Under Presenters, right-click the video image, and then select Make Active Video for broadcasting.
  5. To add a Microsoft PowerPoint deck, select the Present button in the Skype Meeting Broadcast client.
  6. Select your preferred layout (Video Only, Video and Content, or Content Only).
  7. Select Start Broadcast to start streaming.

To see what attendees will see, paste the Event LinkURL from the event scheduler into a browser, and then selectJoin Event. You will see your broadcast streaming.

After the event

  1. Go to the event scheduling portal by typing into your browser, and select your event in the Ended area.
  1. On the Post-meeting summary page, under Video recording, check for the downloadable recording.
  2. To view event metrics, under Reports, select Download meeting report. Metrics for Bing Pulse and Yammer usage are also available.

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