Discussion Rooms

Event discussion room aims to facilitate activities' interactions and leverage group work during online meetings. You can take advantage of this feature if your attendees need to discuss particular ideas and topics within several groups simultaneously.

This article intends to teach you how to use this feature inside the platform and directly at the Virtual Lobby.

How do I enable this feature?

To enable this feature, go to Settings > Tools > select Live from the tools category. Press Edit at the top right corner of your screen, and toggle on the button besides the Discussion rooms. Press End to save the changes.

If you see Click by the tool, you will need to enable this feature at the company tools. By pressing Click a new tab will open directly at the company tools, click on the Live section, press Edit, and make sure the Discussion rooms checkbox is checked. Press End to save the changes.

Creating Discussion rooms for activities

This feature is available in all room video modes, except the External Link which will direct users outside the InEvent platform.

In the platform

Once this feature is enabled, you can follow these steps:

1. Go to Agenda > Activities
2. Select the activity you wish to add the Discussion room.
3. Click on Discussion room, press Edit
4. Press +Create discussion room
5. Add the room topic and adjust the other settings according to your needs, press Create
6. Click on End to save the changes

Settings

In the tab Discussion Rooms, you can find the Settings with the following tools:

• Enabled: You can toggle to the right to activate the discussion rooms related to the selected activity (only the visible rooms will be enabled).
• Active Raised Hands: Even if this function has been enabled at the Activity's detail, you still need to toggle to the right to activate for the discussion rooms too.
• Audio transcription: You can toggle to the right to activate audio transcription for the discussion
  rooms related to the selected activity.

Editing or Deleting the Discussion room

To edit information or delete the discussion room, click on Edit and press the 3 dots on top right, and a small window will give you the options to Edit Room or Delete Room.

• If you choose to Edit Room, click on Edit and a new window will appear allowing you change make changes to your room's name and settings. Press Save when done.
• If you opt to Delete Room, a pop-up message will appear for you to confirm the action, press Yes.

Interactivity tab

At the Settings tab, under the section Tab visibility, the 'Hide Discussion rooms' will be enabled by default. If you wish to display as a tab on the right menu inside the activity, press Edit and untick the correspondent checkbox. Click End to save the changes.

At the Virtual Lobby

You can also create Discussion Rooms directly within an activity in the Virtual Lobby.

Admins, room host, room co-host or staff members have permission to create, edit, delete rooms, and start the room timer.

To create Discussion Rooms within an activity in the Virtual Lobby:

1. Go to the Discussion rooms tab and press the plus icon +
2. Add the topic room and choose the settings you wish.
3. Press Create.

Settings

At the bottom of the Discussion rooms tab inside the Virtual Lobby you can find the Settings that can be enabled/ disabled at any time by the admin, room host, room co-host or staff:

Editing or Deleting the Discussion room

To edit information or to delete the discussion room, press the 3 dots on the top right, and a small window will give you the options to Join Room, Start Room Timer, Edit Room or Delete Room.

• If you select Join Room, a Device Configuration pop-up will appear to choose if you want to Join as viewer or Join now.
• If you press Start Room Timer, a pop-up message will appear as displayed below to confirm the action. Once the set time has elapsed, all the participants will have the Device configuration pop-up to join again the session.

When the set time of the discussion room has passed, the label will show as Timer expired. If you wish to allow the participants to rejoin the session, click again on the 3 dots and press Reset Room. A pop-up message will appear to confirm the action, press Yes.

• If you wish to Edit the Discussion room information, do the necessary changes and press Close.
• If you press Delete Room a pop-up message will appear for you to confirm the action, press Yes.

Running Timer

If you decide to set a Time limit for the Discussion rooms, a counter will be displayed on top of the main screen showing the remaining time. Once it reaches 15 seconds towards the end, a pop-up message will appear as illustrated in the gif below:

If the participants choose 'Leave now' they will be redirected back to the activity straight away, or else will have 15 seconds left before this happens automatically.

Raise Hands

When clicking on the Raise hands button at the bottom of the page, a pop-up message will be displayed to confirm the action:

The admins, staff, and room host can see the participants' requests as shown in the image below:

Once the requests have been addressed, the admins, staff, room host and co-hosts can click on the hand icon (next to the eye icon) and confirm the action:

Audio transcription in the Discussion rooms

If you have enabled the Audio transcription feature for your discussion rooms, the presenters' speech transcription will show up under the Chat tab in the Transcription field of the discussion room. The transcription will also be synchronized with the streaming.

Attendees can translate the transcription into their preferred language using the dropdown menu next to the Translate to option. If they choose No translation, the transcription will remain in its original language.

Can I record Discussion Rooms?

Yes! Discussion rooms can be recorded, this enables you to capture and download all live group discussions during online meetings. This feature is perfect for documenting key interactions and using them for future event promotions or case studies. To enable this feature, follow the steps below:

1. Go to  Agenda > Activities
2. Select the activity you wish to add the Discussion room.
3. Click on Discussion room, press Edit
4. Press +Create discussion room
5. On the Create Discussion Room pop-up, Add the room topic and Toggle on the button for Discussion room recording

   

6. Adjust the other settings according to your needs, press Create
7. Click on End to save the changes

Once you are done setting this up, the recording will start automatically when the room host joins the session. Refer to the article on Room recording for more information.

Changing icon and label

If you wish to change the icon and label of Discussion rooms, go to Settings > Tabs > Virtual rooms and select the RIGHT SIDE of the virtual room. Scroll down until you see Discussion rooms, click on top of it and a small window will open on the right. Select the icon you wish to use and the new label, press End to save the changes.

Group rooms

If you don't want to create Discussion rooms inside the activities, another option is to create Group Rooms in the Virtual Lobby. This can also be done in the backend of the platform or even in the Virtual Lobby.

The first thing you need to do is check if the Networking feature is enabled in your settings. For that, go to Settings >Tools, under the Live category, search for Networking click on the Edit button on the top right of your page and enable the corresponding toggle button

Creating Group Rooms on the platform

Click here to learn how to create group rooms on the platform.

Creating Group Rooms in the Virtual Lobby

Click here to learn how to create group rooms in the Virtual Lobby.

Collapse Networking area

In case you want the Group room to appear on the top of the page instead. In the platform you can go to Event > Virtual Lobby > Settings, and select the Live category. Scroll down to Collapse Networking area and toggle on the corresponding button to enable it.

In this case, attendees can only join groups that have already been created in the backend, not having the option to create a new one.

In case you want to have a private meeting with an attendee, you can click here and check all the possible ways for you to do that inside InEvent’ s platform.

Joining a Group Room

Whenever you enter a Group Room, the platform will ask for access to your microphone and camera. You have the option to join to speak by clicking on Join now or simply as a viewer by clicking on Join as a viewer:

The Chat functionality will also be available for attendees to interact with each other.