You can now hold up to 9 additional subconferences within the main conference call and cover additional topics more efficiently. Participants and moderators can even move from one conference to another as the need arises. At the end of the conference, the moderator will then be able to pull everyone back into the main conference call and end the subconferencing feature.

Activate subconferencing (moderator)

When ready, press *21 to activate subconferencing.

Let your participants know which room(s) they need to join.

Press # and the subconference room number (1-9) to enter yourself into a subconference.

Enter a room (Participants)

The moderator will inform all participants of their assigned room, and press *21 to activate subconferencing.

Participants will then hear "Subconferencing is now activated. Press hash (#), followed by a number from 1 through 9, to enter a room. Press hash, twice (# #) to rejoin the main conference. The moderator can terminate subconferencing by pressing hash zero (#0)".

Press # and the subconference room number (1-9) to enter yourself into a subconference

Return to main conference (moderators and participants)

Press # #. Participants and moderators of a subconference can return to the main conference by pressing ## at any time.

Press #0. Moderators can disable the subconferencing feature and return all the participants back to the main conference by pressing #0.

Important Things to Remember When Using *21:

*Pressing *96 from the main conference will mute all lines in both the main conference and the subconference. However participants in the sub-conference will not hear the mute-all announcement. It is suggested that you bring participants back into the main conference before pressing *96.