Webinars, breakout rooms and interpretation
Webinar
The ‘Questions’ tab only appears in webinars. During a Webinar meeting you will have extra options available in your meeting room (raise hand, ask question). Depending on the permissions granted by your moderator you will also be able to see the full menu of actions (agenda, screensharing, documents, etc.) or only a selection of these.
Your moderator can grant you different rights for example screensharing, video or audio, etc.
To be given those rights, you can either raise your hand or ask a question. Your raised hand or question will be seen by the moderator in his interface.
When your question is answered or the access to a specific action is granted you can again lower your hand.
Taking part as a listener
In some webinars you join as a listener only. The join page then has no device test and no ‘Join with’ choice, and you only see and hear the speakers. The list of participants is only visible to the moderators.
Raising your hand and asking questions
- Open the ‘Questions’ tab.
- Click ‘Raise hand’. ‘Lower hand’ takes it down again. This button only appears if the moderators can bring participants on stage in this webinar.
- To ask something, type your question into the ‘Question’ field and click ‘Ask question’.
When a moderator answers, the answer appears under your question, marked ‘Answered’.
When a moderator gives you the floor, the others can hear and see you. The moderator can take it back at any time.
Before the webinar starts
Before a webinar goes online, you may see a short text from the meeting organizer instead of the speakers. The webinar starts for you as soon as the moderator goes online.
Following the presenter
In some webinars you cannot switch between tools yourself, and you follow what the presenter opens.
Breakout rooms
The meeting organizer can split a meeting into smaller groups in breakout rooms (if available). Your platform administrator decides whether breakout rooms are available.
- When the meeting organizer sends you to a breakout room, your browser takes you there automatically. You do not see the join page or the device test again.
- In a breakout room, ‘Leave meeting’ is called ‘Back to the main room’. Click it to return to the main meeting.
- When the meeting organizer closes the breakout room, you return to the main room automatically.
Language channels
Meetings with interpreters have language channels (if available).
On the join page you choose:
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| ‘Speaking language’ | The language you speak in the meeting |
| ‘Listening language’ | The language you want to hear. ‘Floor’ is the original sound of the meeting; any other language is the interpreter's channel. |
In the meeting room you change your listening language under ‘Language channel’ in ‘Settings’ (classic layout: ‘Tools’). While you listen to an interpreter, the original sound is muted. Switch off ‘Mute floor’ if you want to hear the original sound quietly in the background.
