How people participate during a teleconference is just as important as whether they participate. Remote participants often feel a bit removed from a meeting, and it may be easy to either get distracted or to try multi-tasking, thus reducing the likelihood of participating. Local participants, including the moderator, may forget about remote peers and leave them out of discussions. Here are a few rules of etiquette for all types of participants, whether you're presenting or not. Be timely. Be on time, else indicate to the moderator beforehand that you may be late. Some confererencing systems have a cutoff point after which an in-session conference cannot be joined.