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Nakatsubo's avatar
Nakatsubo
New Contributor
5 years ago
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Mute attendees Permanently

Hi everyone,

 

In my experience as user, I believe the host should have a button to mute attendees permanently in such way they cannot override and unmute themselves. Let me share why:

 

a) There are situations where the attendee is not conscious that he/she is the one surrounded by noisy distractions and the host have to stop or be interrupted by other attendee/attendees who says what is already obvious to everyone: someone has unmuted the audio and now is disturbing the meeting.

 

b) Depending on how youg the attendees are or how disrespectful they can be, there are also situations where the attendee does not care about the content and allow himself/herself to interrupt the meeting consciuously or irritate other attendees, not giving ears to the host or what he/she says.

Such situation is more visible and present these days when schools or random courses are using online rooms to share classes.

 

Hoping to read from your experience in this matter as well.

 

Regards,

66 Replies

  • romain11's avatar
    romain11
    New Member
    9 years ago
    Hi,
    My company is really interrested to get GoToMeeting, and this feature is the only one missing for us : when we organize a professional webinar, we need to keep control and mute all attendees.
    Any info on when this update is planned to be delivered ?
    Even betta version would do...
    Thanks in advance
  • GlennD's avatar
    GlennD
    GoTo Manager
    9 years ago
    Hi John, no there is not. With GoToMeeting attendees are aways able to unmute themselves and in some cases organizers are unable to mute them (we have an update coming that will change this): http://support.citrixonline.com/en_US/Meeting/help_files/G2M050040?Title=Mute+and+Unmute+your+Attend... 

    Depending on what kinds of sessions you are hosting and the number of attendees you need, GoToWebinar maybe a better fit as all regular attendee join muted and must be unmuted by the organizer before they can be heard.
  • John Wetmore's avatar
    John Wetmore
    New Member
    9 years ago
    I agree. I kept having to mute each person that entered throughout the meeting. Is there a way I can set the meeting to keep everyone muted no matter what? We don't do interactive meetings and prefer nobody can talk. Thanks.
  • So we ran our first meeting today and weird that every single person that joined the meeting, joined unmuted (most joined via pc), and we could hear everything from their end, feed back,, toilet flushing.. it was insane.. i kept having to go in and hit "mute all" every few minutes as people joined. Certainly I'm missing some type of setting to prevent this?
    I'd like to set my meetings to make everyone muted unless I specifically unmute someone, possible? Thanks