Moderating Live Sessions

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Lock The Door
Overview of the Lock the Door Feature The Lock the Door feature allows Instructors to lock the door to their virtual room and admit participants in selectively. Lock the Door may be configured to fit a variety of use cases. Instructors may Lock t...
Manage Your Participants With The Participant List
Not only does the participant list let you know who has joined your session, but it also enables you to effectively moderate your live session.The participant list shows a live list of people currently in the live session. As an instructor/host/m...
The LIVE Button In The Participant List
The LIVE button is used to add or remove webcam participants from stage. The LIVE button reflects whether or not a participant is currently capable of broadcasting on stage. The LIVE button found in the participants list has 2 states:  ...
Set Participant Permissions
Kaltura Meetings allows instructors to: Set default permissions for all participants Give any one of your participants specific permissions for the live session Designate any of your participants as moderators or captioners Set d...
Closed Captioning in Live Rooms
Use the Kaltura Meetings Captioning Tool to enable a captioner to write out captions for other participants.   How To Set A Closed Captioner? (Host,Instructor) Instructors can set anyone in the session as a captioner - including them...
Use Quick Controls To Moderate (Mute Participants Devices & Capabilities)
Instructors can remove permissions quickly with quick controls. Mute All Webcams/Mute All Microphones Instructors/Moderators can Mute All devices of participants in the live session to control the environment of the live class. If ...
Mute Participants
This article explains how to Mute All participants and breaks down the device hierarchy regarding participant and Room Moderator/Instructor When participants enable devices when joining a live session, they are allowing the broadcasting of th...
Send Chat Messages In Your Live Session
The Kaltura Live Room chat allows a public Classroom chat, private Questions and Answer chats between participants and room managers, and a private Room Manager/Moderator chat strictly between instructors/moderators. Display Chat Chat...
Hide The Webcam Tray
This article describes how to enlarge your view of the shared content (presentations, PDFs, shared screen, etc), optimize your live class view for low bandwidth and low CPU environments. Each participant has the option to hide the webcam tray from t...
Views: Grid View Of Webcams / Video Conference View
Looking for that "TOTAL" view where all the webcam participants fit as a grid on stage? That's Kaltura's Live Room Video Conference View. To get video conference view, just dismiss/close all content and unset the webcam presente...
Views: Set A Webcam Participant In Presenter Position
Presenter position gives prominence to a specified webcam participant. Setting a presenter helps bring focus to that participant by enabling participants to see the main speaker more clearly. Presenter is a webcam position. Presenters do not get ad...
Views: Maximize The View For Shared Content
If you are working on a smaller screen, you may want to read these tips to see the shared content as large as possible. Hide The Webcam Tray Hover your cursor over the webcam tray and click Hide Webcams to give more room for shared content t...
Track Participant Focus During The Session
This article describes how to get real time indications on the focus of your participants in your live session. When moderating a remote session, it can be difficult to understand how focused your participants are. Reporting back on the success o...
Accessing Session Stats
This article provides insights into your live sessions such as attendance data, chat history, browser focus information, and quick links to applicable recordings. What Are Session Stats? Session Stats provide instructors and Virtual C...
Helpful Stage Slides To Keep Your Participants Informed
Slides To Help You In Your Live Session We designed some slides for you to use during your sessions. Feel free to download them and use them in your live sessions! Click here: Downloadable Slides.pdf You can download these slides and upload...
Remove Participant From Live Session
In order to secure a live session, hosts/instructors might need to remove a participant from the live room.   How To Remove Participant  Search the name of the person who you want to remove. Click the drop down menu next to their name....
Taking Control of Content in a Kaltura Meetings Session
A single user controls the media (e.g. a video or presentation) in the Kaltura Meetings room at any given time to avoid interference with a session flow and to ensure media alignment.  When a user (typically, a moderator) shares, broadcasts or...
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