You can configure elements of sessions. This includes basic options for session content and functionality, as well as advanced changes that the JUNO team can make on the back end.
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You’ll make decisions about content and functionality when you add sessions to your site. You can make these changes yourself using two tools: The content importer and the front-end editor.
These options affect sessions individually. For example, every session can have a different capacity.
An example session. See the tables below for details.
Element | Options | |
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1 | Audience engagement | Show or hide: |
2 | Q&A and Chat | Show or hide: |
3 | Raise hand | Show or hide Raise Hand (in main stage and panel sessions only) |
4 | Information | Change the session name (255 characters max) |
5 | People | Add speakers and moderators |
6 | Resources | Add downloadable resources |
Element | Options (click to enlarge examples) |
Session |
attendance criteria | Restrict who and how many people can attend sessions with prerequisites, exclusive time slots, maximum attendee limits, and access level tags. Learn more about attendance criteria. |
Start and end date | Change the start and end date and time |
Session type | Change the session type (main stage, panel, or breakout) |
Video and stream types | Change the live, preroll, and prerecorded stream options |
Gamification | Allow people to favorite a session for points |
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More options controlled from the back end
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Unless specified, these options affect all sessions on your site. For example, if you choose to remove the countdown timer, it's removed from every session.
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If no one has turned on their camera or microphone yet, this message appears:
Element | Options (click to enlarge examples) | |
You’re the first message | Change text |
If a video is playing when you enter a session, some browsers automatically start playing the sound. Others mute it until you click the video. You can control this setting:
Element | Options (click to enlarge examples) | |
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Autoplay audio | Prevent a video’s audio from playing automatically, requiring users to click to start listening |
The Users can open and close the chat window is open by default. You can change thisdecide how it appears when they first enter the session:
Element | Options (click to enlarge examples) | |
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Chat window |
Decide whether the chat panel is open or closed when a user enters the page. The configuration can be different for desktop and mobile devices. Learn more about this configuration. |
Session page design
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An example session. See the tables below for details.
Element | Options | |
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1 | Streaming user | Add a custom image that appears when someone who doesn’t have a profile image turns off their camera |
2 | Stream controls | Show description text under control icons |
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Timer | Remove |
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4 | Attendee count | Hide attendee count wherever it appears on the site, including the schedule |
The two options below can be set individually for each session. For example, every session can have a different layout.
Element | Options | |
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5 | Video layout | Change the default video layout for a live session and its archived recording |
6 | Session tag display name | Change text |
Chat panel design
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An example chat panel. See the tables below for details.
Element | Options | |
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1 | Chat channels | Remove chat channels |
2 | Join notification | Remove notification of who joined the room |
3 | Names in chat | Show users' last names |
By default, the highest-voted questions in the Q&A move to the top of the page. You can change this:
Element | Options | |
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4 | Q&A: Question order | Sort questions in the order that they were submitted, no matter how many votes they have. |
Backstage controls
Site admins can see these elements in every session. Moderators and speakers can see them in sessions that they are attached to.
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An example session. See the tables below for details.
Element | Options | |
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1 | Total stream controls | Remove controls that let moderators turn off all users' microphones (Mute all) or removes all users from the session (Stop all). |
Normally, moderators can request to bring speakers or other moderators on stage (for example, if a speaker has trouble finding the session camera and microphone controls.) But they cannot request to bring attendees on stage. You can change this:
Element | Options |
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Bring |
attendees on stage | Allow moderators, speakers, and admins to request to bring attendees on stage and turn on their camera and microphone. |
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These options affect the greenroom time and preroll video before speakers go on-screen.
Element | Options |
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Greenroom start time | Set how many minutes early speakers and moderators can enter the session |
Clipped preroll video | Change how many seconds early the preroll video stops playing backstage |