How to Use LiveLitigation Exhibits

1. Opening the Exhibits Panel

Once inside a room, click Exhibits at the top left of the room header to open the Exhibits panel.

2. The Exhibits Interface

The Exhibits panel opens on the exhibit list. If nothing has been uploaded yet, or made public, it shows a drop area instead: drag files onto it, or use Choose files or Add from My files.

The panel is also where you organise them. You can put exhibits into folders, search the list, and use Download all to take everything away as a single zip file. Each exhibit shows whether it already has saved markup, and submitted copies are grouped under Submitted Exhibits.

3. Uploading Exhibits

Click Upload, or drag files anywhere onto the panel. The files open in an upload window, where you choose a Folder and the Sharing for the batch, remove a file with its X or use Add more, then click the Upload button at the bottom to send them.

• PDFs, images, Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents, CSV and text files, and video and audio files can all be used as exhibits.
• Multiple files can be uploaded at once.
• Sharing (Private, Team or Public) is set in the upload window, and can be changed for any exhibit later.
• Password-protected PDFs, and Word, Excel or PowerPoint files saved with a password, are refused because nobody in the room could open them. Remove the password, save a copy, and upload that instead.
• You can also bring in a file you already have: My Files holds documents you have uploaded before.
• Click a file in My Files to open it in the room. If it is not in this room yet, you are asked to Add and open it, and only you see it until you present it.

Once uploaded, your exhibits will appear in the exhibit list. Each exhibit shows its filename and status.

4. Privacy Settings

Adjust the visibility of each exhibit to control who can see it. There are three levels.

• Private - only accessible to you.
• Team - accessible to your team only, if you have been put on one.
• Public - accessible to the room.

5. Viewing an Exhibit

Click on an exhibit to open it in the document viewer. You can move through pages, zoom, and navigate the document.

• Rotate left and Rotate right turn a page that was scanned sideways.
• Fullscreen gives the document the whole window.
• Focus on selection zooms to the part you have marked, which is useful when questioning on a specific clause.

6. Stamping an Exhibit

Use the Stamp feature to apply an official exhibit stamp to the document. This marks the exhibit with a label for the record.

• Customize the stamp contents and color.
• Drag and resize the stamp as needed to position it on the document.

7. Presenting an Exhibit

Click Start Presentation to share the exhibit on screen for all participants. The exhibit will be displayed in the main viewing area for everyone in the room.

• Click Permissions to change who can markup the running exhibit.
• You can give temporary markup permission to anyone in the room including the Witness.
• Click Stop Presentation to stop sharing the exhibit.

8. Markup Tools

Use the markup tools to annotate an exhibit. You can draw directly on the document while it is being presented, and all participants see the markup in real time.

• Select / Move - pick up and reposition something you already drew.
• Freehand draw - draw directly on the page.
• Highlight box - drop a translucent box over a passage.
• Stroke color and Stroke thickness - set how the next mark looks.
• Undo last stroke - step back one mark at a time.
• Clear annotations on this page - remove every mark on the current page.
• Add Exhibit Stamp - place an exhibit stamp (see step 6).

The toolbar always shows the same tools. When something is not available to you it is greyed out rather than hidden, so a tool you cannot use is not a sign that anything is broken. View only means you can see the markup but not add to it.

9. Submit Exhibit

Click Submit create a new copy of the document with all stamps and annotations.

• The Submitted Exhibits will appear in a separate folder in the exhibit list.
• Original files remain untouched.