Hiding Private Chat Messages While Application Sharing Your Entire Desktop

Many moderators choose to share their entire desktop when using the application sharing feature. This means that the participants viewing your desktop can see everything that you as a moderator can see, including private messages in the Chat window. You may not want other participants to view these private messages, so here is a great solution that we often use in our sessions. Using the Chat Filter (at the top of the Chat window), simply switch the "From" menu to "Public" rather than the default setting of "All" and only the public messages will appear in the discussion region. Then when you stop sharing your desktop, simply revert the filter back to "All" and you will be able to view all of the private text messages that were sent.