Court Reporting Tips

• Arrive and prepare set up at least 30 minutes early.

• You will receive a meeting invite to your email if you are assigned as a Court Reporter in the Calloquy Platform. When you open the email, you will see an attachment. Open the attachment and save the invite to your calendar.

• Before joining the meeting, check your Wi-Fi connections and make sure you allow your camera and microphone access via your Google Chrome browser. 

• Organize all received and related exhibits and artifacts before the start of the meeting.

• Be sure to retrieve the Realtime Service session code and password before the deposition or arbitration. 

Connecting to Realtime Service

• After everyone has joined the deposition, provide the session code and password via chat so that Participants can follow along on the Realtime transcript.

• Invite additional Participants to the meeting via the Add Participants option from the Participants list.

• Start and stop the recording when the proceeding is on or off the record. Press the circle Record icon at the bottom of your screen to start and stop the recording appropriately.

• Send the parties to their respective Breakout rooms by pressing the Breakout room icon at the bottom of the screen. You can set a time limit, and the rooms will be designated ahead of the proceeding. However, you can not enter Breakout rooms.

• View, share and download exhibits and other artifacts from your screen as needed through the Screen Sharing option.

• Collaborate with other resources such as the Scopist and or Translator (when needed) to clean uncertified transcript.

• Upload transcript to RB Connect for final production and distribution. 

RB Connect