Our campus phone system is capable of performing conference calls from any phone line on our campus.

Users can establish conference calls without operator assistance.

Here are the instructions for creating the conference bridge, and dial-in number/code for the conference call:

Dial 1380 from your office phone, or 405-574-1380 from your cell phone..
This will call the “Conference Assistant” which is an automated voice-guided system that will guide you through creating/joining a conference call.
You will hear: “Welcome to the Conference Assistant. Enter an access code and then press pound”.
To create a conference call, enter an easy to remember number to use for the for the access code (for the sake of simplicity, just use your own extension).
To have other people join the conference call, have them perform steps 1 through 3, and then have them enter the access code you created in step 4, and then have them press pound.
Once connected, you can talk with other parties who join the conference. If you are the first person in the conference, you hear: “You are the first person in this conference. Please stay on the line”. You will hear a beep whenever other parties enter the conference.
Callers can access the Conference Assistant by dialing in or being transferred to its assigned extension number (i.e. 1380 if on-campus, or 405-574-1380 if dialing in from off-campus).

NOTE:

By default, there can be a maximum of up to TWENTY parties in one conference call. That means that in addition to the initiating calling station (e.g. your office phone), the conference call can include any combination of up to nineteen intercom calls (i.e. on- campus extension) or nineteen outside calls (i.e. off-campus) or a combination of nineteen intercom and off-campus calls……for a total of twenty people on the conference call.

How to have MORE THAN TWENTY parties on a conference call:
It is possible to link conference calls from several telephone extension on campus to create a chain that would combine all parties into one single call. However, this would mean that all the involved extensions on campus would have their phone line tied up for the conference call.

Drop in voice quality on a conference calls:
During a conference call, some reduction in voice volume may be noticed, depending on outside telephone line quality.