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Put Your Speakers in the Spotlight 🌟
1 MIN READ We’re excited to announce a major upgrade to the Presenter Overlay —Known as Spotlight — across all customers of GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, and GoToTraining! Presenters can now spotlight any participant’s camera on top of their presentation, driving engagement and helping everyone focus on the key speaker. ✨ How Does It Work? Spotlight a Presenter Toggle the “Spotlight my camera” option in the camera context menu or “Spotlight me” on the presenter camera feed to add a presenter from Spotlight. Remove presenter camera from Spotlight using the same menu options. Presenters who stop sharing their screen or camera are automatically removed from Spotlight. Spotlight Another Speaker In the camera grid or people panel, select a participant’s name and choose “Spotlight as Speaker” from the context menu. After confirming your selection, their video feed will be prominently spotlighted for all attendees. Note: This option is only available if the participant is currently sharing their camera. Remove them from Spotlight using the same menu. Spotlight Controls for Presenters by Role Organizers: Can spotlight anyone Panelists: Can spotlight staff members only Attendees: Can only spotlight themselves Note: This is available in the new GoTo Webinar experience. We would love to hear your feedback or questions in the comments below!New Feature: Interprefy Integration in GoTo Webinar
1 MIN READ We’re excited to announce the integration of Interprefy with the new GoTo Webinar experience! This innovative collaboration empowers organizers to host webinars with live interpretation support in multiple languages, ensuring seamless communication. Interpretation can be provided using AI or live human interpreters, offering flexibility to meet your needs. To use Interprefy, follow the below steps: Obtain a Token Key Submit a request via the Interprefy team (accessible through the webinar dashboard under LIVE INTERPRETATION). The Interprefy team will provide a quote based on your requirements. After payment, a token key will be generated, and a dedicated Project Manager from Interprefy will assist in conducting the webinar. This process typically takes 2-3 business days. Add the token key Log in to the webinar dashboard in the new GTW experience and input the token key for each webinar session. One token is needed for each webinar session. Please note, Interprefy tokens are valid only for use with the new GTW experience. Use the Interpreter in-session During the webinar, participants will see an Interprefy widget in the bottom-right corner of their session screen. Click the headphone icon to select a preferred language for interpretation. Once selected, participants will hear the interpreted audio instead of the speaker’s original audio. The support article can be found here. Let us know if you have any comments or questions!New Feature: Delete Past Webinars
1 MIN READ What to know: How to delete: Select the desired entry and then select Delete webinar in the top right, or select the three dots > Delete webinar directly from the desired entry in the Past Events tab When a webinar is permanently deleted: Attendees can no longer access certificates, recordings or survey links in the follow-up emails. Any pending follow-up emails for the webinar will be canceled. What is not impacted: Organizers can still access webinar recordings from the Video library Organizers can access the reporting data from the Analytics page. For more information on how to view and manage past webinars, see this article.GoTo Webinar 2024 Year In Review!
1 MIN READ We launched several highly anticipated features directly addressing your valuable feedback in 2024. Take a look at some of the improvements designed to elevate your experience and streamline your workflows, making GoTo Webinar more efficient and user-friendly than ever before.New Feature: GoToWebinar organizers can block certain email domains
1 MIN READ What's new for Organizers: Until now, organizers could only add allowed email domains but now they can block domains as well. Organizers can add up to 50 different domains in total. Note: Organizers can only add either allowed domains or blocked domains. They cannot add both at the same time. What will attendees see: When attendees (for whom the domain has been blocked), try to join the webinar, they would be shown a message that they cannot join the webinar. How to use this feature: Users can access this setting via the Restrict access option under the Registration module.
