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You can set up and manage a persistent meeting space for your media gallery from the Meeting Room tab.

From this tab, you can enable the meeting room, choose how participants interact, assign moderators, and control chat and Q&A settings.

The Meeting Room tab appears only if it’s enabled by your admin and is available for supported media galleries.

Access the Meeting Room tab

1. Open your course, and click on Media Gallery.
The media gallery displays.



2. Click the Actions menu at the top right and select Configure.



The 'Details' page displays by default.



3. In the left navigation panel, click Meeting Room.



The 'Meeting Room' page opens. 

4. If the Meeting Room is not enabled already, click the toggle to enable it.



After enabling the meeting room, the settings display.

Configure your room as desired, then click Save at the top right.

Configure your room

Choose a room mode 

Use Room mode to define how participants join and interact in the room.

• Interactive – everyone can join the stage
• Webinar – assigned presenters join the stage; all others join as viewers

Assign room moderators

Room moderators manage the meeting room and control the session.

Room moderators can:

• Launch the room
• Moderate participants
• Manage room content
• Start and end recordings
• Access the backchannel

To assign room moderators, start typing a user’s name in the field and press 'enter' to add the user.

Repeat to add additional moderators.

Assign chat moderators

Chat moderators manage chat and interaction features during the meeting.

Chat moderators can:

• Moderate chat messages
• Reply to Q&A
• Launch polls and interactions
• Access the backchannel

To assign chat moderators, start typing a user’s name in the field and press 'enter' to add the user.

Repeat to add additional chat moderators.

Enable Q&A

Use Enable Q&A to control whether participants can start one-to-one Q&A chats with a moderator during the meeting. 

Select one of the following options:

• According to site default – Uses the Q&A setting defined by your administrator.
• On – Enables one-to-one Q&A chat between participants and moderators.
• Off – Disables Q&A chat for participants.

Group chat

Use Group Chat to control whether participants can send messages in a shared chat during the meeting. When group chat is enabled, messages are visible to everyone in the meeting.

Select one of the following options:

• According to site default – Uses the group chat setting defined by your administrator.
• On – Enables a shared group chat for all participants in the room.
• Off – Disables group chat for participants.

Enter the room

Click the Enter Room button on the main media gallery page to launch or join the room.