Chat Ability for All Attendees

We use this for training large groups and find having someone in the background engaging the users through the chat board helps keep users engaged in the content and share ideas and comments or just affirm what's being said.  This works best when everyone can see the comments

Agree, this isn't something we'd want. Because of our education it's more important the attendee focus on the content from the faculty

We just switched to GoToWebinar and didn't realize attendees couldn't chat between each other.  We would definately use this feature

There is a good discussion of that here with several work-arounds.

https://community.logmein.com/t5/GoToWebinar-Discussions/I-need-attendees-to-be-able-to-chat-with-each-other-but-I-don-t/m-p/176921

As a part of GoToWebinar, it would be great to have the chat box available for participants to chat with one another. This would help interaction and attention during the webinars. Organizers or panelists could ask questions and participants could answer. Other platforms have this feature and I would love to see it in GoToWebinar. Thank you,

For 95 percent of our webinars our Attendees do not need to communicate with each other.

I could see some wanting this option but our group wouldn't so as long as it was a feature we could turn on or off, that's great. For our CE activities we don't see the need for attendees to communicate with eachother.

Thanks

Hi carehart -  we do hear you!  I too agree that what you are suggesting would be a useful feature to have available for organizers to utilize if they wish.  I have tagged your recent post as an idea and it will be passed along to engineers for consideration.  Thank you for the feedback!

carehart - I agree this would be a good feature for many GTW users.

I remember one time last year when we did need the audience to chat during a webinar and we used Padlet.  This worked well for the live audience in the auditorium as well as the folks attending via GTW.