🥇 Host
The Host is the person who can create and design the session. Consider the Host the administrator, CEO, or maestro: it's their responsibility to organize, anticipate, and structure the session for Attendees to consume it or easily contribute to it.
The session's Host is marked with a golden star next to their name.
🥈 Assistant(s)
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.
Assistants can also add, edit or change agendas, and share tools. 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 (right lower 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
- Go to the Planned session.
- Click on it. You’re now in that session’s .Lobby
- Click on the Participants button (right lower corner, next to Chat ).
- Find the participant you want to make an assistant.
- Click on More options (⋮).
- Click on Make assistant.
- Great. You’re done.
🥉 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 Storage in 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 via a public link, they have the option to add the event to their calendar to be reminded of it. This option is available in the
The session's link setting needs to be public for guests to do that.
💡 Attendee(s) in the spotlight
Hosts or Assistants are the ones who can add attendees to the spotlight.
More details here:
