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Live session (Player)

🔻About the Player
🖐️ How to interact in the Player
😃 Participants
⚙️ Settings modal
A) Device preferences
B) General settings
🔎 View modes

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This is the stage where the actual meeting happens. The entire live session depends on what the Host planned or how they decided to use the resources at their disposal. The meeting can be a simple, casual conversation or a complex, interactive webinar.

🔻About the Player

In Player, attendees can have audio-video content and upload or download files shared in Chat. They can submit ❓Questions (privately or publicly), send 👍Reactions, fill in 📊Forms by Sessions and vote in 📊Polls. They can also draw, type or work collectively on Google Docs, 🎨Whiteboard by Sessions, and Miro.

In addition, participants can write down whatever they want in their 📝Notes. Registered users can review their private notes in Memory and send them to their Evernote or Notion accounts. As for a session’s 🎯Takeaways, the Host can automatically send them from Memory through email to all participants.

🖐️ How to interact in the Player

When the Host starts a Planned session, participants move to Player where the live meeting happens.

On the left side of the screen, the Host has the 🖼️ Share palette button. From there, Hosts can embed tools, files, links or add agendas to the meeting.

👉 More about the 📝 Agendas

😃 Participants

The participants modal allows everybody to see who’s present in the meeting, but it's especially useful for Hosts and Assistants who can easily manage the audience from here. Everything about audience management, from muting/unmuting, adding to Spotlight, or appointing assistants is possible from here.

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To remove a participant from your session, click on More options (⋮) next to an attendee’s name → Remove from session. If you want to ban the participant from re-entering the session, check the Permanently ban box. If you just want to kick out a participant, leave this box unchecked and click Remove. The participant will be able to enter the session again later on.

⚙️ Settings modal

This modal makes it accessible for you to check audio-video performance, change device preferences or review general settings.

A) Device preferences

These settings will be saved on this device for all future sessions.

Video settings

Mute/Unmute mic, Start/Stop camera for the current session
Default camera
Hide self-view: Others will still see you, but you won’t see yourself.
Mirror self-view: Invert your camera feed for a more natural feel.

Audio settings

Default microphone
Default speakers
Noise reduction: Filter out your background noise.

Background effects

Backgrounds effects: Light blur/Strong blue
Custom image: Upload up to six custom images that can be your background for live sessions, or choose a picture from the predefined ones.

Participants will have access only to Device settings.

B) General settings

Session settings:

Change your session's name
Allow reactions: Who can send reactions?
Screen sharing: Who can share their screen?
Allow participants to turn on their mic: Who can unmute their microphone?
Allow participants to turn on their cameras: Who can share their camera feed?
Hide inactive participants: Don’t show participants whose microphones and cameras are off

Access:

Lock session: If enabled, participants need the host’s permission to join.
Request guest email: If someone without a Sessions account wants to join, they have to provide their email address
Memory access: Allow participants access to the recording, resources, and analytics.
View agenda: Who can see the agenda?

Notifications:

Chat & Questions: If checked, you will receive notifications when people write in the chat.
Participants entering/leaving session: If checked, you will receive notifications when people join the session.
Reactions: If checked, you will receive notifications when people react.

🔎 View modes

View modes allow organizers to set the focus exactly where they want it, both for them and their audience. There are two View modes: Speakers and Gallery.