Chapter 7. Application Sharing Exercises and Techniques

When purchasing a synchronous product, organizations often have the most questions about application sharing. This feature allows the trainer to share software applications (such as spreadsheets, word processing, or custom applications) with participants, even if the participants do not have the software installed on their individual machines. Because the feature is so visually impressive, vendors often use it as a highlight for their demonstrations.

There are many varieties of application sharing, ranging from "view only" on the participants' side to allowing participants to actually interact with applications shared by the trainer or by other participants.

Although the feature is very powerful, ...

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