- 🥇 Host
- 🥈 Assistant(s) or Co-hosts
- 📢 How to add an assistant:
- 👉 Moderators
- 🥉 Participants or Attendees
- 😃 Guests
- 💡 Attendee(s) in the spotlight
🥇 Host
The Host is the person who created and designed the session. Consider the Host the administrator, CEO, or maestro: it's their responsibility to organize and structure the meeting so attendees can easily consume and interact with it.
⭐ The session's Host has a gold star next to their name.
🥈 Assistant(s) or Co-hosts
Hosts can share their workload with one or several Assistants of their choice. Assistants can start and conduct a session if the Host is not available. They also offer continuous support to the Host by answering questions, adding participants to the spotlight, and managing attendees or resources shared.
Assistants can also add, edit or change agendas, and share tools, files or links. They are the Host’s right hand!
📢 How to add an assistant:
👉 If the meeting or event is live, follow these steps:
- Click on the Participants button (bottom right corner).
- Find the participant you want to make an assistant.
- Click on More options (⋮).
- Click on Make assistant.
- Great. You’re done.
👉 If you’re in a Planned session that hasn’t already started, follow these steps:
- Go to the Planned session.
- Click on it. You’re now in that session’s Lobby.
- Click on the Participants button (bottom left corner, next to the Chat).
- Find the participant you want to make an assistant.
- Click on More options (⋮).
- Click on Make assistant.
- Great. You’re done.
👉 Moderators
A session or event’s Moderators are those who can control the structure of the gathering: Hosts, Assistants/Co-hosts, and Speakers.
For event speakers, check out this article: Events & Webinars
🥉 Participants or Attendees
Attendees often have the least active role, though no one in Sessions is entirely passive! Even Attendees can preload files, docs, sheets, slides, audio, and video in Chat before the session starts or during the .
When you click on Participants (👥), a modal opens that allows you to:
- See all the moderators and participants in the session
- Copy session link
😃 Guests
Guests are users who don't have a Sessions account. When they are invited to a session or an event, they can add the event to their calendar so they can be reminded of it. This option is available in Lobby. Each guest can choose where to save the session: Apple calendar, Google, Outlook, Outlook.com, Outlook Office, or Yahoo.
💡 Attendee(s) in the spotlight
Hosts or assistants are the ones who can add attendees to the spotlight.
More details here: Conference
