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Screen Sharing in Pencil Spaces

Learn how to screen share on Pencil Spaces and more. Table of Contents:

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Written by Nitish Garg
Updated over 2 weeks ago

1. How do I start and stop screen share?

In order to access screen-sharing abilities, the user must first start or join the call. To learn more about starting or joining a call, you can view the following Article: Starting or Joining a Call in Pencil Spaces.

To screen share,

  • Below your video feed, you'll see a set of video controls.
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  • Click on the Screen Share Icon as shown below and wait for a pop-up to appear.
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  • You'll see a pop-up on your screen asking you which screen you want to share. You can choose between your entire screen, a specific window, or a specific tab in your browser if you are using Chrome.

  • Select the screen you want to share with your participants and click the "Share" button.

  • Post screen sharing, you'll see another box pop-up on top of your video feed where your screen share is visible.
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  • To stop screen sharing, click on the blue button to "Stop Sharing".
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  • or, Click on the "Screenshare" button from the tool bar and choose "Stop Screenshare".
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  • It's important to note that Pencil Spaces supports multi-screensharing. This means that you can have more than one active screenshare at one time, so multiple participants are able to share their screens simultaneously using the same steps.
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  • You can also share your audio by simply toggling-on the following switch while choosing screen
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2. How do I view a screen share?

To view a screen share,

  • To expand on your screen share, hover over the screen share on top of your video feed and click on the 3-dot menu
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  • From here you can choose from the multiple options available.
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  • You can learn more about how to switch between the whiteboard, gallery, speaker, and full-screen view in this Article: Video Views in Pencil Spaces.



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