Coffee-break on WebEx for School

[Carcom97]

Hi, I am a Master university student.

Sometimes during  a lesson on Cisco WebEx, I need to go out for 2/3 minutes... just the time for a coffee, a glass of water or going to the bathroom. But it happens that the professor could unfortunately call you in those minutes. Group chat would be annoying for the lesson. Why not create a little coffee-shaped interface to indicate the "coffee break" (or the things that I mentioned earlier)?

[Fritz_H]

@Carcom97 
Idea for a work-around:
Install some virtual webcam software* that allows to use a static image (e.g. of a coffee cup) as "Camera".

As soon as you feel the need for more caffeine, switch from your real webcam over to the virtual webcam showing an image. (don´t forget to mute your microphone...)

*Cisco mentions this in the "appHub": Manycam | Cisco Webex App Hub

If this works, you may also try images of bathrooms, postmen etc. ;--)

possible sources for really free images:
https://www.pexels.com/
https://unsplash.com/
https://pixabay.com/

[Carcom97]

Hi @Fritz_H , thank you so much For The answer.  

Okay so...

Idk if it will be a good idea (FOR ME), ‘cause we don’t use webcam but only audio. And I liked a lot the coffee interface idea (y) :’) 
Mine was only a suggestion, but probably For others your idea is good. 

”If this works, you may also try images of bathrooms, postmen etc. ;--)”

LOL

Regards,

Carmen