Co-browsers

In a co-browser, when you are the Presenter, you can sign into any web site, while other participants continue to see the web pages, in real time, in your personal account.

Co-browsers have the unique capability to enable other participants to interact with your personal account. As Presenter, you turn on Group Participation to allow this.

Turn off Group Participation to end access to your accounts for the participants.

When you turn on Group Participation, participants can't turn it off. They see a static message instead of the toggle.

When you turn off Group Participation, participants can't turn it on, unless they take over as Presenter. They see a pop-up message when they tap the toggle.

If you exit a workspace without turning off Group Participation, it turns off automatically to protect your accounts.

In a co-browser, as a participant, you can select to become the Presenter, sign into your own accounts, and turn Group Participation on and off.

When you become Presenter, the co-browser ends access to the previous Presenter's accounts, and you can enter your own sign in information or navigate to other web sites.

To switch Presenters:

1. In a co-browser where you are a participant, not the Presenter, click the Presenter icon:
   
2. The following confirmation message appears:
   
3. Select Start Presenting to become Presenter.
4. Group Participation automatically turns off, and the browser automatically signs out of any accounts to which the previous Presenter had signed in. As Presenter, you now control whether to turn Group Participation on or off.

The co-browser can save your sign in information so that you need to enter it only once for any site. This is both convenient and secure:

• You have to enter and save your sign in information only once for a site. You can close the co-browser or exit the project. When you access that site again in a co-browser, in any of your Prysm projects, you don't have to enter your sign in information again.
• If another participant becomes Presenter for your co-browser, the co-browser won't allow the new Presenter to access any accounts to which you have signed in. When you become Presenter again for the co-browser, you can access your accounts without having to enter your sign in information again.

To save your sign in information in a co-browser, you simply need to sign into a web site in a co-browser. The co-browser automatically retains your sign in information for that web site.

When you sign into a site and the co-browser saves your sign in information for that site, you won't have to enter your sign in information again the next time you access that site. This saved information in the co-browser can give other people unintended access to your personal accounts in these situations:

• If you walk away from a Prysm display with your workspace and co-browser open, a person could walk up to the display and access your accounts through that co-browser.
• If you leave Group Participation on when you are not intentionally collaborating with other participants, the participants can navigate to any web site, including others for which the co-browser has saved your sign in information, which means that they can access your accounts at those sites via that saved information.

Take these simple precautions to protect your accounts:

• If you must walk away from a Prysm display, exit the workspace. When you exit the workspace, Group Participation automatically turns off, so that participants can't access your accounts. Also, the co-browser will no longer be accessible to a person who walks up to the Prysm display.
• Don't leave Group Participation on indefinitely. Turn it on when you are working with participants, you want to collaborate with them in your accounts, and you can monitor their activity. Turn Group Participation off as soon as your collaboration is done, so that you are certain that participants do not have unintended access to any of your accounts.

In addition to the security provided by the preceding precautions and your ability to turn off Group Participation at any time, co-browsers automatically turn Group Participation off, securing access to your accounts, when:

• You sign out of a project.
• You exit a workspace.
• You switch from one workspace to another.
• Another participant becomes Presenter for the co-browser.

At this time, co-browsers don't support audio. If you need to hear audio from a web page, Prysm for rooms has legacy Standard Browser options, which support audio. In Prysm for rooms, click a co-browser's button to launch a standard browser. In Prysm for web, clicking launches a browser tab (outside of the Prysm application) to play the audio. In Prysm for desktop, the browser plays audio automatically.