Add an Interactive Room session to your event


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This article explains how to add an Interactive room session to a multi-session event.

Interactive rooms allow attendees to connect with others during your virtual event. Hosts can use this collaboration space to provide demos with advanced moderation controls, breakout rooms that allow smaller group interactions, and so much more! Engage attendees through interactive tools like chat, breakout rooms, live polls, screen sharing, whiteboard, and more. Enhance your event experience by adding an interactive session with the speaker right after the session for a small group of attendees to interact with the speaker in a more intimate environment.

This article applies only to multi-session events.

Some behavior described here applies to a non-default configuration. Customer-specific variations are highlighted where applicable. 

Add an Interactive Room session 

  1. From the Kaltura Events home page, click on the event you want to manage.
    The Overview page displays.
    There are two ways to add an Interactive Room session to your event:
    •  On the Overview page, in the Agenda at a glance section click Add session.
    • On the Agenda page click + Add session.
      The Add session pop-up screen displays.
  2. Select Interactive room. The 'New session' panel displays.

  3. Fill in the required fields and any additional information you want to display on the agenda (see the section below for details).
  4. When you're finished, click the blue Create button at the bottom right.

  5. Your new session is added and appears on the Overview page.

Session details

Complete the required fields and any additional information you want to show on the agenda.

Thumbnail image

Click Upload thumbnail to upload an image (recommended size: 1920 × 1080 px)

Title (required)

Type a title for your session (up to 120 characters; characters and aren't supported).

Description

Type a description for your session.

When entering a URL in the Description field, use http(s):// (full path) for external links. 

Tags

Apply existing tags or create new ones for your session. You can then filter your Agenda page and the Agenda section of Page builder based on these unique tags.   

  • To add an existing tag, start typing and select it from the list
  • To create a new tag, type your new tag in the Add tags field, then click +Create tag "[tag name]".
  • To detach a tag from a session, click "X".

    Session tags are visible to event attendees. 

Date and time (required)

  • Date (required) - Select the session start date
  • Time (required) - Select the session start time
  • Duration (required) - Enter the session length in minutes (max is 1440 minutes = 24 hours).

Speakers

Add speakers who have already been assigned a Speaker role in the event.

Start typing the name and select it from the list

 

If no results are found, click Invite a speaker. This re-directs you to the Speakers page where you can invite speakers to your event.

You can:

  • Reorder speakers using the six dots to the left
  • Show or hide speakers using the eye icon
  • Remove speakers using the trash icon
  • Set speaker permissions to Simple speaker or Advanced speaker

  • To see a list of all available speakers, leave the Speakers field empty. You can browse the list and click to select speakers. 
  • Speakers are displayed on the event agenda in the same order you select them here. 
  • Click outside of the Speakers area to see the speaker line up.

Moderators (required)

To add moderators to this session, start typing the name of a user who has been assigned a Moderator role, and select the moderator from the list.

Site visibility

Choose one of the following options from the drop-down menu:

  • Private – Visible to team members only
  • Unlisted – Accessible via direct link only
  • Published – Visible on the event agenda

Certification

Click the check box if you would like to assign this session to your Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program. 

Additional information 

This section appears only if your account includes custom metadata. The fields in the Additional information section can be used to:

  • Capture internal session details
  • Support certification or CPE requirements


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