So the major parts of the screen include the list of participants of course with the students' and moderator's name the moderator is going to be at the top a list of indicators at the right these first two columns show if you've raised your hand and the raised hand button is used primarily as a way to interrupt someone on the microphone to say, I need to ask a question or clarify something before you go on and it flashes and blinks on the moderator's screen and either the moderator or you must put your hand down or else it will still be up the next column is for the polling button there are polling buttons down here below the participant window the default buttons are green check for affirmative and a red "X" for negative so your instructor may ask you a question and then you can answer and that shows up by your name and those usually the instructor will just clear out automatically so you can usually just leave those and the instructor will take care of them also there are emoticons that are typically used for you to just give reactions without having to raise your hand and interrupt but just, you know, agree with somebody or smile or laugh since you aren't generally looking at each other it is important to use these emoticons to let people know if you're confused or you don't like something or you want to applaud these buttons turn off by themselves you just click it once and it flashes a few times and then it just stops on its own so they are really easy to use and most instructors would encourage you to use those to give some feedback the indicators to the right of that just show your ability to use the microphone video chatting and application sharing and use the whiteboard tools which are over here so your instructor will generally give you all of those abilities but if any of them are turned off you'll see those indicators change and below the participant window you have a chat window and generally this is used throughout class just to add any comments or questions without having to interrupt the person who's speaking and to add additional information you can also right click on that chat window to make the text a little bit larger if you want to be able to see it better 