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Allow Panelist(s) to See All Questions
Not so much a question as a feature request. (I thought we had a category for that.) Please add the ability for an organizer to allow a specific panelist (or all panelists) to view ALL questions. Currently, must promote them to Organizer, which gives them the power to END the meeting. I always warn them when it's necessary to do this. I point out Exit Webinar vs End Webinar should they need to withdraw from the session. It has still happened by accident. It also gives them too many other powers, like ability to dismiss people. Mostly it works out okay, until the curious "organizer" starts clicking on options!28KViews12likes63CommentsRe: Removing Sentence from registration
Seems like I learn something new every day! Today I was editing some questions and noticed the standard communications disclaimer can be edited. Default is: By checking this box, you submit your information to the webinar organizer, who will use it to communicate with you regarding this event and their other services. So maybe you want to replace or add to THAT with some explanatory text about the other disclaimer.2.4KViews0likes1CommentRe: How do attendees chat?
Yep, G2W only has chat for staff, not attendees. Not a great work-around, but we do sometimes use Q&A for open-ended comments when I have a presenter who really wants the audience to share (e.g. "chat"). You usually need at least a couple of admins managing it, especially if at all high volume. On my last one, we explained to attendees (repeatedly) the instructor at time would request feedback and to type answers in the question pane. Hosts would "reply" with a single character, usually a period, to "publish" to everyone OR hosts would skim and verbally share responses. Since the Q&A pane would be full of comments, if they had a true question, start it with Q: or Q-. On that last one, I had 400+ attendees and a presenter who asked for comments about 5 times plus lots of real questions. It took 3 of us to keep the question pane cleared. It's not perfect by any means, but is a way to add more interactivity similar to chat. Note - one thing that can get confusing is that a STAFF member (Organizer/Panelist) can send a message directly to an individual attendee. And the attendee can respond. If this happens: Response shows up in Chat Window on staff side Attendee's Q&A pane gets re-labeledQ&A/Chat (or something like that; the word "chat" appears . At least it used to.) However, attendees don't have true chat capability; this is private messaging from a webinar staff member to/from a specific attendee.3.2KViews0likes1CommentRe: Removing Sentence from registration
I was registering as an attendee for an external webinar and noticed their GoToWebinar form did NOT have the disclaimer. Looked at one of mine; it did have it. Then I realized the first one had no custom fields, only those chosen from the picklist. I expect the thinking is that if you are adding your own custom fields, the disclaimer would automatically be inserted since you (theoretically) might be using those fields to collect "confidential or sensitive information". Plus the placement makes more sense. The disclaimer is placed immediately before the custom fields.2.4KViews0likes2CommentsRe: Removing Sentence from registration
All of my webinars are free. None of my audience pays attention/comments on that line. However, if it became an issue - I'd probably add something like below as the final line in my session description. Years ago, something about the way the reminder email instructions were worded caused my audience to misinterpret something about audio. (I think it sounded like you HAD to have a mic.)I ended up adding a clarification in the custom text for confirmation/reminder emails which cut down on questions. For those who noticed/bothered to read - my statement was there also. And later the instructions evolved. So you could do something similar but on the registration form. Something like: ---------------------- The secure payments disclaimer below is standard text for all GoToWebinar forms and not relevant to this free webinar.2.4KViews1like0CommentsRe: Who starts broadcasting - organizer/co-organizer
Having a co-organizer start (or end) the meeting accidentally is a real problem. Yet many of us are basically forced to promote most staff to organizer level in order that they can see all the questions and help manage that process. I really wish a permission level would be added where you have someone who can see the questions but not the power to launch or end the meeting.3.5KViews0likes0CommentsRe: GoToWebinar Transcriptions / Subtitles
Interesting. The file had .SRT as its filetype in filename. I'm pretty sure that excerpt was the download of automated captions from last one we posted to YouTube. Lots to know. I think I'll mostly be working with raw transcript at first, straight from G2W. And that's purely a TXT file. Thanks for adding to the discussion. Does anyone know if the G2W format has a NAME for its type? If yes, there's likely a converter that could be used to adapt the existing time notations into a format YouTube can read.4.6KViews0likes1CommentRe: GoToWebinar Transcriptions / Subtitles
6/24 update - be sure to read the correction posted byChris Droesslertwo messages down. For those who may be interested, here is what the G2W transcript file looks like. It's a simple text file that can opened with Notepad or any other document reader. (I'll edit some text just to leave enough you can see the format. Any ... or XXX are edits to simplify.) 0:05 Good afternoon, everybody. We are glad to have you joining us. 0:11 In this webinar, we will be covering.... 0:20 XXX was going to be our presenter that she had a family emergency. And so YYY has graciously stepped in. 0:50 If you want to learn more about these other events we host, you can ..... An SRT file (SubRip Subtitle file)has special coding that synchronizes it to the video. You can still edit in Notepad. It looks more like this: (Looks like this is a VTT file, not SRT, although format is similar.) 1 00:00:00.03 --> 00:00:05.279 Good morning! Welcome, everybody, We are excited to be hosting this topic. 2 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:10.230 I have been really looking forward to it myself andI hope you have as well. 3 00:00:10.23 --> 00:00:16.049 My name is XXX. Among other things I host this series... 4 00:00:16.049 --> 00:00:20.760 Today's topic is...4.6KViews0likes3CommentsRe: GoToWebinar Transcriptions / Subtitles
It did work - finally. Not sure how long it actually took to synchronize the transcript in YouTube. One place said 5 minutes; Youtube screen said it might take several hours. I know it wasn't ready in 30 minutes. I checked back in a couple of hours and screen said "processing" BUT when I refreshed the screen, it was done. So less than 2 hours. Recap: we want to use the transcripts from G2W so that each host/presenter can do as much of the cleanup, editing as possible for captions before turning over to the one person who can load to YouTube. We've been experimenting with the option where you load a transcript without timings into YouTube and its autosync feature matches the text with the recording to create the timings. I don't know that this is the most efficient way but here's what I did. Feel free to add on if you have other experiences. This sounds like a lot of steps, but it really didn't take long. GENERATE/DOWNLOAD THE TRANSCRIPT From Video Library link in G2W, chose the 3 dots on my session that show more options. Edit Transcript Generate Transcript (It takes a while.) Once available, COPY (no export option) CLEAN UP THE TRANSCRIPT Because I tried earlier and YouTube would not accept the file with timings, I then needed to remove those. (I suggest you try it yourself. If you don't have to delete timings, one less step.) Delete Timings PASTE Transcript into Excel. Insert Column to left so I have A to work with as blank column Use Column A as a "Sequence #" to document the row order. Autofill starting with 1 and dragging all the way down. (For me, 977 rows). Sort by Column B (Transcript Text). That groups all the numbers (timings) together Delete the block of rows with timings Re-sort the by Column A (Sequence #) to put the rows back in the original order. Delete Column A (Sequence) So now you have all the transcript lines, in correct order with timing numbers removed. Copy text Edit transcript text I wanted to be able to search/replace and spell check, so chose to work in Word. Paste as unformatted text into Word. Edit/Correct text errors to the degree you want. We don't try to edit EVERYTHING but there are some common mistakes like acronym use that almost always get wrong. Could have a presenter skim for anything glaring. For this one, we had very few transitions on speakers, so I added the speaker name each time voice changed. (If you don't plan to edit much, could have kept working in Excel.) I thought I read (could be wrong) that I needed a blank line break between each line of text. So I used Find/Replace to locate each paragraph marker and replace with TWO paragraph markers. (Under "Special" in the Replace box.) Save as a TXT file. (No formatting at all.) LOAD FILE INTO YOUTUBE (focusing on transcript, not the entire process) Configure the entry in YouTube.Follow directions to Add Video/Create. Upload the recording file and fill out the various fields. Choose MORE OPTIONS Look for Language, Subtitles, and Closed Caption (CC) section click Upload subtitles You have a choice of with timing or without timing. Choose WITHOUT. Load your file. Finish any other parts ofthe configuration. As I mentioned above, the screen kept saying YouTube was processing the autosync, but at some point it was complete and screen message wrong. When I refreshed the screen I was it was done. Ours took somewhere between 20 minutes and 2 hours. Note sure as I left it to work on other projects.4.6KViews0likes0Comments