Can you have attendees in GoToWebinar talk or text "chat" to each other during a live 500 attendee event??
If you can't - PLEASE - change it so they can. It is terrible that there is no way to have the attendees interact with each other -
We have a weekly webinar on the same day, and same time EVERY week. Our clients like to be able to come to the event and interact with each other - and with the GoToMeeting there is no way to do that.
Only the organizer can see the "Questions" from attendees.
Let us know if there are plans to FIX this, thanks!
- We work around the problem by either responding to every question and promoting the response to all or entering a blank character and promoting to all. This allows people to see all of the questions and responses, but we have extremely active sessions, typically with 800 to 1000 participants, so it takes two people to manage the backchannel. But it is worth the work. I just want the chat function so I don't have to do that.
- Happy to talk to the devs if you're still looking. (My comment was added to a different thread, which has apparently been merged with this one.)
- Yes, but this is very cumbersome. I agree -- I just want the chat function so I don't have to worry about this (and can focus my energies on remembering to save the Q&A, which is another boneheaded non-feature.)
- I agree about saving the Q and A. I did find that the Q A is in the analytics report, but you can't download it from there, which is so completely frustrating. They provided a great resource but forgot the most important detail.
- Unfortunately it saved only half of my Q&A in the reports last time. :-(
- I'd be glad to discuss as well. It is super frustrating not to have this feature.
- I just hosted a webinar where the presenter assumed attendees could see each other's posts, and it was awkward. How do I accomplish this? Do I have to paste every Question into the Chat box?
Hi Heidi, it is currently not possible for attendees to chat with other attendees; however, organizers/panelists responding to questions do have the option to "Respond to all" when answering to questions, rather than responding privately to the individual asking the question.
what could be the/a reason this Send Privately or Send to All button is inactive (greyed out) ?
We were facing that few weeks ago at some Organisers events ...
- I work around that by entering in one blank space after every response and clicking "respond to all". It is time-consuming, but I do it. That's one of the reasons I always have someone else working with me as an organizer in every session. I sure wish there was a public chat option like so many of the competing systems have.
Yes, a public chat option would be crucial for my needs.
The main reason chat is not included for GoToWebinar attendees is because you could potentially have a two thousand person audience. Allowing attendees to chat could violate some privacy rules of certain organizations, and also greatly distract audience members. We do have Chat available for up to 200 attendees however, with GoToTraining, and 100 attendees with GoToMeeting if you feel that you need this function for your broadcasts to smaller audiences.
- After testing about half a dozen different types of webinar and online meeting platforms, I went with Adobeconnect. I've been using it for over a year now and love it. Used GoToMeeting both while working for another company for a few years as well as for my own company, but Adobeconnect is far better for a classroom environment. Webcam, chat, student breakout rooms, whiteboard, PDF & Powerpoint sharing, desktop sharing, multiple presenters, Q & A, Notes, URL sharing, file sharing and on and on. All pods that can be sized and arranged and saved as a presentation format.
- Hi Sam, those features are also available in GoToTraining, along with chat.
