Allow Panelist(s) to See All Questions

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Yo! Requesting once again on my wish list. Why does a presenter need to be made a....

That's just wrong. Presenters are typically just that, only presenting and doing questions at the end. A presenter should be able to see the q and a box and not have to be made an organizer to do so. 
Seems like an easy request

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I find the Questions Panel in GoToWebinar challenging.  I set up a webinar and invited a couple of experts as panelists.  However, they couldn't see the questions unless I assigned a particular question to them.  Why not allow my "experts" to see all the questions and help to provide the answers.  It is very hard to "assign" the questions that come in rapidly.  It required me to read the question, understand which panelist to select, and then assign it. 

So, I thought, maybe I can turn off the questions completely and just use chat.  Nope, apparently not.  About halfway through some attendees were using the Questions panel and some were using Chat.  I'd like a little more control over what the attendees can use, and I should be able to give blanket access to the Questions panel for the panelists. 

No. Panelists can be added during configuration and anyone can be promoted to panelist or organizer DURING the session. Until recently, it had to be license holder in your group to set someone as an co-organizer during configuration, but they recently added the functionality to name external organizers.  Those named organizers can't EDIT the meeting but they arrive in the organizer role, with all those those permissions.

Does the panelist have to own a GoToWebinar account to select them as a co-organizer?

I agree strongly with JHB. Giving all presenters and assistants Organizer status just so they can see attendee questions is overkill. I don't want them able to accidentally do organizer-level tasks such as changing people's status, changing event options, or ending the meeting. They just need to see the questions coming from the people they are talking to as a presenter! 

I always give presenters keyboard and mouse control to a second computer I have so they do get to see the polling like the attendees but the presenters don't get to see the percentages as they're rolling in. For our purposes the faculty just seeing the results at the end like the attendees is good enough.
 I'm sure eventually the tool will be so advanced that during the set up you'll be able to select what controls you provide each presenter in case you wanted some to have all admin rights and some just access to the q n a .

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Oh, I agree. I also would like them to be able to see the polls on the screen. I understand the complications, but it would be easier if they could see them on the screen, not just in the control panel.

I do it all the time and know the work arounds but I'd still like to see if that the panelist can see the question box without making them an organizer. I don't like they can start broadcast, launch polling, end webinar for all, only because they were made an organizer. Like I said I know the work arounds but I still would like to put this request out there!
Thanks

This idea would be of great help or the option to assign a questions to multiple presenters.  I may not want the presenters to have to weed through attendee technical questions or basic administrative questions, but I may also need more than one presenter to be able to see a question if I don't know who will want to field it.

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