Last updated: September 12, 2022.
Access My Settings
- From the Collaborate panel, go to the My Settings tab panel.
- Spacebar or select My Settings tab panel to open.
- Find the heading My Settings heading with heading keyboard short cuts, the Tab key, or visually.
- Continue to navigate the panel to find the following features:
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- Change your profile picture button
- Audio and Video Settings tab
- Notification Settings tab
- Session Settings tab, moderators only
- Report an issue button
Change your profile picture
- In the My Settings tab, go to the Change your profile picture button.
- Spacebar or select Change your profile picture button to open the Change your profile picture panel.
- Navigate the Change your profile picture panel and select one of the following:
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- Upload button
- Capture Photo from Camera button
Upload
- To upload a profile image, Spacebar or select Select to upload an image button, visually displayed with the text Upload, Drag image.
- Your native operating system folder automatically opens. Use standard navigation and interaction techniques to select your profile image.
- After you select your profile image, a dialog window the heading Crop and Save Your picture is available.
- To select the image, go to the I Like It! Button and Spacebar or select it.
- An image with the guest name you entered when you joined the session as alternative text is then added to the Change your profile picture panel.
- To cancel, go to the Cancel button and Spacebar or select it.
- Focus is returned to the Change your profile picture panel.
Remove
- To remove a profile image, Spacebar or select Remove your current profile image button, visually displayed with the text Remove.
- Image is removed from the Change your profile picture panel.
Capture Photo from Camera
- To take a photo in the Collaborate application, go to and Spacebar or select Capture Photo from Camera button.
- A dialog window with the heading Capture Photo and description “Take a photo of yourself to use as your profile image. Don’t worry. You can try again if it doesn’t look right.”
- Go to and Spacebar or select Take Photo button.
- An image with the guest name you entered when you joined the session as alternative text is then added to the Change your profile picture panel.
- To cancel, go to the Cancel button and Spacebar or select it.
- Focus is returned to the Change your profile picture panel.
Audio and video settings
- In the My Settings tab, go to the Audio and Video Settings tab.
- Verify that the tab is expanded and continue to navigate to the following features:
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- Set up Camera and Microphone button
- Use your phone for audio button
- Toggles to display a text description with the session phone number and PIN. After you selected to use your phone you can’t return to using the computer’s audio controls. This is a bug all users are experiencing.
- Speaker volume slider
- Use left or right arrow keys with the keyboard or
- Use Press the key Left Arrow or Press the key Right Arrow
- Microphone volume slider
- Use left or right arrow keys with the keyboard or
- Use Press the key Left Arrow or Press the key Right Arrow voice commands
- Display Closed Captions (when available) checkbox
- Spacebar or select Display Closed Captions (when available) checkbox when enabled
- Display Closed Captions (when available) checkbox is automatically disabled
Set up Camera and Microphone
- In the list under Audio and Video Settings, go to the Set up your camera and microphone button.
- Spacebar or select Set up your camera and microphone button to open the Audio Test (1 of 2) dialog.
- Navigate the dialog to find the following features:
- You sound great progress meter
- Attention! The meter is not rendered to screen readers.
- Select microphone select field
- If there is only one microphone, then this select field isn’t interactive
- No – I need help button
- Note: The No – I need help button opens the Troubleshooting help topic for your browser.
- Yes – It’s working button
- You sound great progress meter
- Spacebar or select the Yes – It’s working button to open the Video Test (2 of 2).
- Navigate the dialog to find the following features:
- Video
- Note: Video is not rendered to screen readers
- Select camera select field
- If there is only one camera, then this select field isn’t interactive
- No – I need help button
- Note: The No – I need help button opens the Troubleshooting help topic for your browser.
- Yes – It’s working button
- Video
- Spacebar or select the Yes – It’s working button to open the You’re good to go! dialog
- Spacebar or select Close button to close the dialog.
- Focus goes to the Share Audio button.
Notification settings
- In the My Settings tab, go to the Notification Settings tab.
- Spacebar or select Notification Settings tab to expand the panel.
- The panel contains these setting list items:
- Someone joined or left the breakout group or session heading
- Collaborate pop-up notification check box
- Audio notification check box
- Browser pop-up notification check box
- Someone posts a chat message heading
- Collaborate pop-up notification check box
- Audio notification check box
- Browser pop-up notification check box
- Close captioning available heading
- Collaborate pop-up notification check box
- Someone raises their hand heading (moderator role only)
- Collaborate pop-up notification check box
- Audio notification check box
- Browser pop-up notification check box
- Someone joined or left the breakout group or session heading
- Go to the check box appropriate for your needs and use the Spacebar or select the check box.
Report an issue
- In the My Settings tab, go to the Report an issue button.
- Spacebar or select Report an issue button to open the Report an Issue section.
- Go to either the heading I had audio problems or the heading I had video problems.
- Under I had audio problems go to the list and use Spacebar or select one or all of the following check boxes:
- I couldn’t hear others
- Others couldn’t hear me
- Under I had a video problems go to the list and use Spacebar or select one or all of the following check boxes:
- I couldn’t see others
- Others couldn’t see me
- If you had neither audio nor video issues, go to the text I had a different problem.
- Spacebar or select I had a different problem button to enable the Describe your issue (max 1000 characters). edit field.
- Go to and enter your issue in the Describe your issue edit field.
- To hear additional content that will be included with your report, go to the Auto-generated report that will be sent with your description edit field.
Cancel an issue
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- If you find yourself in the Report an issue panel unintentionally, go to the Cancel button.
- Spacebar or select the Cancel button to return to the My Settings panel.