Module guide
Huddles
Drop into a live audio room, or leave a recording for people in other hours.
Overview
Huddles covers the two shapes a quick conversation takes. Live is a set of audio rooms you can drop into without scheduling anything, for the question that takes ninety seconds and would otherwise become a meeting. Recordings is the asynchronous half: record your screen, browse what colleagues have recorded, and play one back with comments anchored to the moment they refer to. Between them they cover a team spread across time zones, where the same conversation has to work both live and hours later.
Highlights
The capabilities worth knowing before you dive in.
- Live audio rooms you can start or drop into without scheduling anything
- Screen recordings for the same conversation held asynchronously
- Comments anchored to a moment in a recording, so feedback points at what it is about
- A browsable library, so a recording is findable later rather than lost in a chat thread
Important to know
Limits, permissions, and sharp edges to keep in mind.
- A room is live. Nothing said in it is captured unless somebody records, and a room is not a meeting record.
- A recording is kept and is watchable by whoever it is shared with. Treat it as you would anything else you publish.
- Audio and screen capture need browser permission, and a browser that refuses is a browser setting rather than an Atlas fault.
- For a meeting that needs an agenda, minutes and action items, use Meetings. Huddles is deliberately the lighter of the two.
How to use it
The primary workflow, start to finish.
- Open Huddles. Live shows the rooms currently open.
- Start a room, or drop into one that is already running.
- For a conversation that does not need everybody at once, switch to Recordings and record your screen instead.
- Watch a colleague's recording and leave a comment anchored to the moment you are talking about.
FAQ
- Is a huddle recorded?
- Not unless somebody records it. A live room is a conversation, not a meeting record. Use Meetings when the conversation needs a record.
- When should I use Meetings instead?
- When it needs an agenda, minutes, or action items that become tasks. Huddles is the lighter tool on purpose.
- Why can nobody hear me?
- Almost always a browser permission. Audio and screen capture require your browser to grant access, and that is a setting Atlas cannot change for you.
- What is a time-anchored comment?
- A comment attached to a moment in the recording, so feedback points at the exact thing it is about rather than describing where to look.
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