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The host should be the person with the strongest internet connection and the best computer.

Each call has: a host, the person who calls everyone else a facilitator, who runs the meeting and a minute-taker.

Your Skype shouldn’t last much more than an hour.

After that, go to ‘Video settings’ to check what the webcam sees.

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Click on ‘Audio settings’ to (a) check your mic and speakers, and (b) ‘Make a free test call’ (near bottom of this window). Go to ‘Tools’ at the top of Skype window, then click on ‘Options’. You should test your audio and your video before every Skype call.Turn off all other programmes during your call – some people restart their computers just before logging into Skype.

Someone using a tablet or smartphone for a group Skype will get audio-only.

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For this guide, we’re going to assume you’re using a Windows or Mac desktop or laptop computer (some names are slightly different in Linux).

If you were going to pay someone’s travel, maybe you should buy them a webcam?

For video on a desktop, people will need a webcam (£20) and some speakers or headphones.

Using Skype means downloading and installing the programme to a computer, smartphone or tablet.

So if your meeting is sensitive, Skype is not the way to go (even if you’re on Linux). Skype has been owned by Microsoft since 2011, and Microsoft has made Skype video, audio and text messages available for capture by US intelligence services. We’re going to talk about using Skype for internet video meetings though there are other options. (You can add someone who just has a phone, but it costs money – see below). Holding a meeting by online video saves travel time, money and carbon emissions, but it does mean most people have to have access to the equipment and to the internet.