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Allow Q and A to be public and let attendees vote on questions
Hi, Other webinar systems I have used have permitted organisers to open up the chat and/or Q&A, so attendees can see the questions others are posing. This would be so helpful for some of the webinars I run. It would be even better if this was enabled together with the ability of attendees to 'upvote' the questions, so you could see at a glance which questions are most popular. The absence of these features really counted against GoToWebinar when I weighed up the different webinar options on the market, and made it a much closer run than it should have been! Thanks, Levi3.2KViews7likes3CommentsRe: Open Q&A with upvoting
Thanks,AshC. Yes, but it is not really just "by default" that questions are private...there is no way to change this setting. That's what I was suggesting should change. For some of my webinars, I receive a lot of feedback saying "I wish we could have seen the questions other people were asking" and, sometimes, I would like to at least have the option to switch that on. It does exist as an option, I believe, in GoToTraining, so it must be possible, technically. I hadn't thought of the polling on the fly option to achieve the 'upvoting' - although that would rely on having one or two people helping me deliver the webinar, as this isn't something I could do while presenting. Also, I am not sure it quite as neat as upvoting. It feels a little bit like I am exposing the people who asked the losing questions by doing it in a poll. Other systems - like WebinarJam and BigMarker - just this open chat and upvoting stuff pinned down. I chose GoToWebinar because, in other respects, the product wins through. But it was a much closer call than it should have been, given that GoToWebinar doesn't have these increasingly standard options. L.3.4KViews0likes0Comments