I agree completely. I am not sure releasing this part of GoToWebinar was a good idea before it was capable of letting clients host virtual events to the same caliber as every other virtual event platform out there.
I would like to add to the list of "glitches", which I more lovingly refer to as features that GoTo needs to fix about their virtual event platform immediately:
- Limiting the number of panelists to 25 is not great for multi-session/multi-day virtual events. I have an event that has well over 40 panelists between 12 sessions. And nowhere when you are creating a virtual event and adding panelists does it tell you that there is a limit until you have reached that limit and it just does not let you add more.
- Not being able to promote an attended to a panelist or presenter after a session has started. This is possible in a standard webinar so why can't it be a feature in a virtual event?
- The formatting in the description of sessions added to a virtual event is non-existent. Everything ends up in one text line with no paragraph spacing, bullets, etc. It works in the description of the overall event so why wouldn't it work in the description of each session?
That's all I have to add to the original post for now, but I am sure I will have more as we inch closer to the start of our virtual event that over 100 people are already registered for as I figure out more of the "glitches" with this platform.