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What's New
Customize your Lobby page - The Lobby (coming soon) page acts as a "waiting room" or a landing page until the event site is open. You may now customize the look of your Lobby page. Quickly and easily change the banner image, customize the “hero” banner, add new and duplicate existing sections, re-order sections, and so much more! See Customize your lobby page.
Download captions - In addition to editing the caption files, you may now download the captions file from Pre-recorded sessions directly to your local machine. See Agenda tab - Add and edit Pre-recorded session.
Stage Monitor - Event speakers/presenters can now see questions from the audience in real time via the Stage Monitor. Event moderators can use the new Stage Monitor tab in the Moderator app to change the order of Q&As presented to the speaker, edit Q&As, and remove Q&As from the Stage Monitor console window. The Stage Monitor tab also provides direct access to the Stage Monitor console window and a way to copy the link to the Stage Monitor console window to share it with the speaker. See Moderator App.
Conversation ID/Thread ID - As part of our expansion of moderation management capabilities, moderators can now use a unique conversation ID/thread ID as a thread a thread indicator visible in both in the Chat and Collaboration widget in-session moderation and the Moderator App. The conversation/thread ID is particularly useful for moderators’ internal communication when there are several attendees with the same name. See Moderator App.
Assistant - Moderators now enjoy a new "Assistant" in the Chat and Collaborate widget, The Assistant offers moderators peace of mind via several functionalities that empower them to more easily moderate and do more with their time during a session.
Kaltura pulls data points right into the session, including attendee numbers, turnout rate (percentage of those registered who are actually logged into the session), engagement rate (viewers who watch in full screen or with the focus on the tab and sound on), and time to end. These real time, crucial metrics keep moderators minded of how their session is performing.
In addition, Kaltura provides "signals" to moderators based on metric trends. Moderators are, thus, empowered to choose appropriate engagement methods based on what's going on in their session. For example, if engagement rates are trending up (indicated by a green up arrow next to Engagement rate), it may be a great time to send out a poll. Better still, Kaltura provides shortcuts to drive these actions (creating and publishing polls, crowd votes, and chat messages to the group) right inside the Assistant, keeping everything at the moderator's fingertips. See Events - Chat and Collaborate widget and Webinars - Chat and Collaborate widget.
Set sender name for email notifications - Event managers can now set a sender name for email notifications created from custom templates. In addition to "no-reply@kaltura.events", recipients will now see the name you set in the "From" field. This gives a more personalized feel to your email notifications. See Interactions tab - Emails.
Recently viewed events - The Events page now provides Event managers easy access to events they've recently viewed. Clicking on any of these recently viewed events opens them for editing. Instead of searching through the list of events, Event managers can use this new feature to quickly revisit events they are managing. See Kaltura Events Account Home page - Manage your events plan.
Easier assignment of events to Event managers upon role change - When changing a user's role from Admin to Event manager on the Teams tab, you may now quickly identify and assign events to that Event manager without ever leaving the window, similar to the flow when you add a new Event manager. See Kaltura Events Account Home page - Manage your events plan.
Better control over profile pages on the event site - "Bio" information entered when adding speakers, moderators, and event team members displays on profiles pages of the event site. Instead of a simple plain text field, you are now able to better design the look and feel of this information through rich text and you may even add hyperlinks to important related information. See an example on People tab > Speakers - Invite speakers to your event.
Improved flow to manage captions for your Live and DIY live webcast sessions - Edit session pages for Live and DIY live webcasts are improved to allow both the ordering of live captions for a session (before the session begins) and the ordering and upload of captions for a session recording after the session is over (if a recording is present for the session). See Agenda tab - Add and edit Live Webcast session and Agenda tab - Add and edit DIY live webcast session.