🔍Participant overview

This article explains everything you need to know about the participants overview.

As a speaker, you have the ability to manage the participants and other speakers within your session. You can do this by opening the 'Participants overview bar' found in the left-hand menu

Option buttons

Within the 'Participants overview bar' there are a number of options that you can control as a speaker as explained below;

Lobby enable/disable

The Lock icon allows the option to make new participants entering the session wait in a session lobby.

*Until this function is disabled the particpants in the session lobby will not see the session.

Move to speaker

Allow a user to become a speaker in the session, giving the user full speaker rights.

Move to audience

As a speaker, you can move other speakers to the audience also removing their speaker rights.

Give broadcast permission

Give a user broadcast permission and they will be given the option to turn on their microphone & camera within the session.

*This does not give the user full speaker rights.

Give presentation permission

Presentation permission allows a user to: - Show/present content from their own content library - Manage content shown on screen by others (for example; change slides of a presentation, stop/start YouTube videos).

Broadcast request

The audience can request the option to broadcast with their microphone and camera by clicking the request to broadcast icon in the top left corner of their screen.

Identify request to broadcast

As a speaker, you can see that a user has requested to broadcast by seeing the following icon next to their name

Accept/ Deny request to broadcast

As a speaker, you have full control over whether to give broadcasting permission or not by clicking on the hand-up icon next to their name you will be given the option to Accept/ Deny request to broadcast.

Once permission has been given

This icon will appear next to the name of the user once they have been given broadcasting permission.

To remove broadcasting permission hover over the user's name and click the icon with the three dots to open more options. Choose the option 'Remove broadcast permission' (please see screenshot below for reference).

Remove participant

You can remove a participant from the entire session by clicking the door icon. This will direct the user back to the lobby of the event.

*The user will recieve the following notification on their screen.

Note: Speakers have the option to apply the options above to the entire audience by clicking next to the title Audience:

• Give and remove broadcast permission to the entire Audience.
• Give presentation permission to entire Audience
• Ask all broadcasters to turn on/off camera
• Mute microphone for all broadcasters

Mute all

If you have a session where everyone has permission to turn on their microphone & camera from the start you can use the 'Mute all' button at the bottom of the screen to mute all particpants.

Additionally by clicking the option to 'Mute newcomers' you can mute any new particpants as they enter the session.

*If speaker rights/ broadcasting permission has been given the participant can still enable their microphone.