Jitsi

Getting started

Starting the app

Create an account on NWS Customer Interface

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Logging in

Moderators in NWS Jitsi

In our Jitsi app, only one moderator can create video conference rooms. To do this, he creates a conference room and to open it, he must enter his user name and password. After his successful entry, all other participants can join the call without entering a password.

Creating more moderators


By default, an admin user is always created when starting a Jisti app. This user is not editable (name and password cannot be changed).

However, additional moderators can be created. The number of possible moderators depends on the started plan. The higher the plan, the more moderators can be created.

In the Customer Interface, go to Settings on your Jitisi app.

At the point "Customer Settings" you can now simply enter the desired username and user password and then add the user with "Add User". 9 Moderatoren anlegen.png

Starting a video conference

Log in to your Jitsi app. 
In the start menu you will find the input field to name your videoconference room (1). Enter the desired name here or just use the randomly suggested name. Go to "Start Meeting".

On the start menu you will also find a history of recent meetings (2). If you want to use one of the old meeting rooms again, just click on the room and it will open. 10 Grundmenu.png

Now enter your name. You can also set various adjustments concerning Background-picture, mircophone, camera and general settings. Click on "Join Meeting":

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Now you have to confirm that you are the host (guests just have to wait till the host has opend the room) and then you have to enter your login data (username and password).

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Administrative Tasks

Customization

Just go to your Jitsi app in the NWS Customer Interface and click on "Settings". Go to  "Design Settings".

Here you can:

1. Edit Background color

Click on the Color-field and choose your desired color. Press "Save customization" to save the change. 3 Background Color NWS.png2 Background color in Jitsi.png

2. Insert own background picture and/or own logo

Just upload your company logo to the design settings under the item "Custom watermark" - please note that only SVG files can be used here.

For the background image it works the same way - only this is inserted at the point "Background image" - here JPGs or PNGs can be used.

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3. Customize your App name, the header title and sub header title

To customize the text in the Jitsi start menue, you can change the App name, the Header title and the Subheader title at the design settings under the item "Title customization". 

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4. Customize the legal settings

Here you can insert the link for your imprint and privacy policy. 16 Legal settings.png

5. Subdomain

Just go to your GitLab app in the NWS Customer Interface and click on "Settings". Open the "CNAME"- tab and fill in your subdomain.

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6. Customer Domain

For this, the following things must be fulfilled /accomplished:

  1. Domain must belong to you
  2. You must set an A-record to IP 185.11.255.46 for the domain name
  3. You enter this in our NWS Customer interface at your Jitsi app under "Settings"8 custom domain.png
  4. You specify if you want to have a Let's encrypt certificate or an SSL certificate

Advanced Topics

Recording a video conferene

Recording is not possible in our Jitsi app. 

If recording is an indispensable tool for you, we can setup an individual Jitsi instance for you on our OpenStack where we can activate custom features like recording, special branding, connection to you AD or joining via telephone with SIP. Just contact us here.

Secure a video conference room

Yes, that´s possible. You have three options to secure your Jitsi room.

At first you have to open the conference room. You will now find the security options under the "more options" field. 14 Security options.png15 Security options.png

  1. Enable lobby: Lobby mode lets you protect your meeting by only allowing people to enter the room after a formal approval by the moderator.
  2. Password: You can add a password to the meeting. Participants will need to provide the password before they are allowed to join the meeting.
  3. End-to-End Encryption: this mode ist currently EXPERIMENTAL. Keep in mind that the meeting will only work for people joining from browsers with support for insertable streams. 


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