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New Features: Viewer Mouse and Viewer Registration

We are excited to announce the general availability of two new features: viewer mouse and viewer registration.

Viewer mouse allows you, as the presenter, to see the mouse cursor of one of your viewers so that your viewer can interact with you and point out things on your screen. Viewer registration allows you to capture information about your viewers before allowing them to view your screen.

Viewer Mouse

Viewer mouse allows you to see the mouse cursor of one of your viewers on your screen. This will allow your viewers to interact with you by giving them the ability to point out things on your screen.

When you give one of your viewers permission to show his/her mouse cursor, you will be able to see his/her mouse cursor on your screen. The selected viewer’s name will be shown underneath his/her mouse cursor so that you will know whose cursor is being shown.

viewer mouse cursor

To enable viewer mouse, click the mouse icon on the Screenleap console. If you have viewers, you’ll be able to select a viewer and then select the Show viewer’s mouse cursor option.

viewer mouse: select viewer

You can switch to show the mouse cursor of another viewer or disable viewer mouse entirely by clicking on the mouse icon again and selecting either a new viewer or Disable viewer mouse respectively.

Viewer mouse is not yet available in our API, but we hope to make it available in the next few weeks.

Viewer Registration

The viewer registration features allow you to capture information about your viewers before they are allowed to view your screen share. This is especially useful if you are using Screenleap for marketing and sales webinars as you will be able to export the viewer registration information to your CRM after your presentation so you can follow up with them.

To enable viewer registration, sign into the Screenleap website select, select Settings & Preferences from the Account menu, and then select what information your viewers are require to provide. You can require your viewers to provide the following information:

  • Name
  • Name and email address
  • Name and phone number
  • Name, email address, and phone number
  • Name, company, and email address
  • Name, company, and phone number
  • Name, company, email address, and phone number

When your viewers go to view your screen share, they will be prompted for the information you specified as being required before they are allowed to view your screen.

viewer registation

After your screen share ends, you can view the list of viewers and the collected registration information from the Reports page. You will also be able to export the viewer registration list as a CSV file for import into your CRM.

Coming Soon

Viewer mouse is the first step in our transition from Screenleap being a screen-sharing platform to a collaboration platform. In the coming weeks, we will be releasing support for remote control, which will allow you to give a viewer control of your computer to allow for full collaboration. Remote control will allow your viewers to assist you with doing something on your computer and to interact with you as if they were right next to you—all without requiring your viewers to install any software.

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Broadcast Audio Now Available

We are excited to announce that broadcast audio is now available on all paid plans.

Broadcast audio is a new audio option that allows you to share audio captured from your computer’s microphone with your viewers. You do not need to call a conference number like you do with audio conferencing: you simply need to speak into your computer’s microphone. Your viewers will not need to install any software in order to hear your broadcasted audio: all they need is a web browser.

Broadcast audio will be especially helpful for those of you giving webinars or teaching classes as your attendees will not need to dial into a conference line in order to hear you. Although broadcast audio is one-way, you will still be able to interact with your viewers using our integrated chat functionality.

You can broadcast your audio from all supported sharing devices, including Windows, Macs, Chromebooks, iOS, and Android. To enable broadcast audio, go to your Settings & Preferences and select the broadcast audio option in the Audio Preferences section.

Upcoming Changes To Free Plans

We will be making some changes to our free plans starting in January: the regular Free Account will be limited to 40 minutes of free sharing per day. The broadcast feature will also no longer be available on the free plan. You will be able to continue sharing using a unique screen share code that is generated for each of your screen shares.

We will also be discontinuing the Education Free Accounts, which previously offered two hours per day of free sharing for people with education email addresses. We now offer a discounted education-specific solution for schools that priced at $99/year per teacher with the purchase of 10 or more seats. Please contact sales to learn more.

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Announcing Screenleap for Education

We are excited to announce the general availability of Screenleap for Education, a new solution designed specifically for teachers. Screenleap for Education is the easiest way for teachers to share their screens with their students and record it for later viewing. As always with Screenleap, students can view from any web-enabled device without installing any software.

Teachers can use Screenleap for Education to:

  • allow students to follow along from any device,
  • allow-visually impaired students to easily see their screens,
  • give students the ability to review lessons before their exams,
  • track student engagement in real-time, and
  • save hundreds of hours each year by not having to reteach lessons to students who miss a class.

Setup Classes

Getting set up with Screenleap for Education is easy: teachers can create classes and add students manually using our web interface or by importing the class and student information from a CSV file. Only students added to a class will be able to view the screen share for that class.

Screenleap for Education - Setup Classes

Screen Share for a Class

Screenleap for Education makes it easy for teachers to share their screens with their students. They can start a screen share for a class with a single click. We support sharing from Windows, Macs, Chromebooks, iPhones/iPads, and Android devices (including SMART Boards).

Students will see the list of classes they have been added to when they sign in. They can view the screen share for a class and listen to the audio with a single click—there’s no need for teachers to share a new link or code with their students each time they share their screen.

Share Recordings

When teachers share their screen using Screenleap for Education, we can automatically record their screen shares (including audio) using our cloud recording feature and make it available to their students after the screen share ends. Because we perform the recording in the cloud, there is no need for teachers to upload any recording after they finish their screen shares: it automatically becomes available after the screen share ends. Making recordings of their classes available to their students will help teachers improve their students’ learning by allowing students to review class lessons before their exams and when they miss a class.

Track Student Engagement

Screenleap for Education also allows teachers to track student engagement in real-time. Once they start sharing their screen for a class, they can open up a separate page that allows them to see which of their students are engaged with their lesson.

Screenleap for Education - Student Engagement Graph

We track and show them when students are viewing their screen share so they can see when their students are watching their screen share and when they are viewing another site. This allows them to see when they are losing their students’ interest or when they need to intervene with specific students who are not paying attention. Teachers can also review the student engagement graphs after their screen share ends from the recordings page.

Sign Up for Free Pilot

Screenleap for Education costs $99/year per teacher. We are currently offering Screenleap for Education for free for the fall semester. This will let you try out Screenleap risk-free at your school so you can see the benefits for yourself.

Sign up for the Screenleap for Education pilot »

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a demo for your teachers, please contact us at sales@screenleap.com.

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Screen Recording Now Supports Recording Audio

We are excited to announce that we now support the recording of your audio when recording your screen. To take advantage of audio recording, you will need to select Screenleap audio conferencing as the audio conferencing option in your preferences and call in to the Screenleap conference bridge number during your screen share. Everyone calling the conference line will be included in the audio recording.

If you call the conference line before the screen share starts, recording of audio will begin when the screen share starts. Recording of audio will end when the screen share ends or when the last person leaves the conference line, whichever happens first.

We hope you find the audio recording support useful for creating complete recordings of your screen shares for later playback or sharing with your viewers.

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