How to use ClickShare and download the App

Is your meeting room set up holding you back? Are you and your colleagues wasting time, juggling cables and struggling to present? Or is it even a challenge just to join the call in the first place? If any of this is the case for you, then you’re not alone. Despite the drive to build hybrid work cultures, the meeting room experience is still, for far too many, more like a meeting room ordeal, with little-to-no help or support for long-suffering employees.

Systems, such as ClickShare are, however, helping companies to turn the tide in the battle to deliver seamless workplace collaboration.

With just one click or touch of a button, ClickShare Systems ensure that you can wirelessly join a video conference or share your screen.

Designed for pretty much any meeting room set-up, ClickShare devices connect, cable-free, to a central meeting room display, and in the case of ClickShare Conference, also to AV peripherals, such as the screen’s USB camera, microphone and any speakers in the room.

An intuitive and user-friendly solution, even for those with little I.T proficiency, ClickShare devices connect through either a ClickShare Button plugged into the USB port on your laptop or desktop, or the ClickShare App for PC and mobile devices.

What can you do with ClickShare?

With ClickShare, straight out of the box, you have a solution that enables anyone to claw back the time usually lost on meeting room set-ups and screen sharing issues.

To overcome the usual meeting room pain points caused by complex, or unfamiliar collaboration technologies, the system offers a “Bring your Own Device” (BYOD) and/or “Bring Your Own Meeting” (BYOM) experience. Put simply, employees can use their own PCs and tablets – the devices they’re already familiar with – for any workplace collaboration.

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ClickShare Present

With ClickShare Present Wireless Systems, you can wirelessly share everything from presentations and videos to platforms, either in a fixed meeting room like a Microsoft Teams or Zoom Rooms, or during informal huddles. You can essentially make collaboration flow with one click by sharing your screen to the meeting room display with the ClickShare Button. The creation of valuable meeting minutes is also made easier with the ClickShare app, which enables you to capture key moments of the meeting with snapshots.

ClickShare Conference

With a single click of the Desktop App, ClickShare Conference Wireless Systems let you start a meeting from your personal calendar, using your preferred video conferencing software, whether that’s Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco or Zoom, or one of the many other compatible platforms.

ClickShare Conference and Present

Like ClickShare Present, it also enables you to share all your screen, or just one application window, so you can keep your laptop screen private and use it for note-taking.

Thanks to the ClickShare Conference feature, you can be sure of a natural presentation experience that is as engaging as it would be in person. With the feature’s multi-view display, your presentation can be featured alongside other participants’ video, so you maintain eye contact and gauge their reactions as you present.

For meeting room touch screens, you can boost productivity even further and actually work, annotate and make notes on collaborative slides in real time.

Even as you stand up and present from the big screen, you have full control over your presentation, the timing of slide changes as well as all the applications and content available on your laptop. This means that, instead of having to be at the mercy of unreliable clickers or a clunky computer mouse, you can simply tap the screen to switch slides. With just a few touch interactions, you can also access and open other applications and content on the fly to answer questions, or elaborate on any points.

For valuable real-time collaboration, ClickShare also makes it easy for meeting invitees to contribute feedback and ideas, enabling everyone to screen share from any laptop, mobile or tablet – using Airplay, GoogleCast or Miracast.

How to boost the functionality of ClickShare

ClickShare is able to do a lot, but with Signagelive, it can do even more. With just a Signagelive Standard or Web licence, ClickShare C and CX devices become all-in-one workplace collaboration and communications tools.

No other software or hardware is required, which means that you’re essentially able to double the functionality available and use the devices to deliver digital signage at a fraction of the usual cost.

Signagelive-powered ClickShare devices

This ability to switch seamlessly from wireless conferencing and presenting to digital signage and back again has benefits for the meeting room experience, and overall workplace productivity.

Streamline the meeting room booking process by using the free Signagelive calendar integrations to display your workplace calendar on-screen and check for room availability. In addition to this, share meeting prep as well as post-meeting debriefs on the big screen for ease of collaboration.

Between meetings, you can also publish everything from organisation-wide news, business updates and employee notifications to team-specific communications in the relevant meeting rooms.

To plug and play or click and play

You can either connect to ClickShare through a ClickShare Button plugged into the USB port on your laptop, or the ClickShare App for PC and mobile devices. Both options are good, offering enterprise-grade security.

The way you choose to connect will depend on how and where you like to work.

Ideal for workplace meeting room set ups, ClickShare Buttons ensure that employees and guest invitees all have the opportunity to contribute actively to meetings and share content. An intuitive plug-in solution, they require no training to use and can simply be left in meeting rooms, ready to plug in.

ClickShare App

Equally user-friendly, the ClickShare App is perfect for meeting rooms, as well as quick huddles and small impromptu break-out meetings.

Designed for any Windows or Mac laptops or PCs, the ClickShare Desktop App ensures a next-level wireless conferencing experience with ClickShare PresentSense. When activated, this feature automatically detects and connects to the relevant ClickShare device the moment you walk into the meeting room.

I.T teams can easily push the App to all employee laptops through an MSI package, and the App itself will take care of any security updates.

Download the ClickShare App

Downloading the ClickShare App is both quick and easy.

ClickShare Desktop App

Go to www.clickshare.app and download the app.
Open the zip file and extract the content
Run the set-up file and it should load automatically
If password security is enabled, then you’ll need to type in the pin code displayed on the meeting room screen.
If Clickshare PresentSense is enabled, your laptop will immediately be connected to the room’s ClickShare unit.
To activate PresentSense, you’ll need to allow the ClickShare Desktop App to use the microphone before it can start detecting the PresentSense signal. You can do this by heading to the “About” window, selecting the “Settings” tab, and then sliding the ClickShare PresentSense toggle to the right.
If you don’t enable PresentSense, you just need to click on the ClickShare icon in the system tray to make the App visible.
Then, click on “Select meeting room” to see a list of nearby meeting rooms, and click on the relevant meeting room to connect.

ClickShare App for Mac

Install the app using the installer located on the Button, or download the app from www.clickshare.app.
Next, open Clickshare_Setup.dmg and select ClickShare, then the Applications icon
Click ”Ok” when the Privacy popup to trust Barco’s app comes up
On the bottom left of the next screen, click the Lock icon, type in your credentials and click ”Allow”, and then ”Restart”

ClickShare is a valuable tool, enabling organisations of every size to embrace hybrid office culture and offer more intuitive and inclusive meeting room set ups. Powered by Signagelive, it can open up even more possibilities, becoming a cost-effective, streamlined and impactful all-round comms system that enables you to engage and communicate with teams, every time they’re in the office.