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NB3
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5 years ago

Issues with Panellist joining

We had a Webinar yesterday with 10 Panellists and 5 attendees, but after 6 Panellists join the rest were added as attendees only. Even after rejoining the Panellists were added as attendees only.   ...
  • Chris Droessler's avatar
    5 years ago

    If you added the Panelist as a Panelist though the Dashboard before the webinar was started, then the Join link they got in an email should be a Panelist Join Link, and they should enter the webinar as a panelist.  Is it possible these folks ignored the Panelist Join Link and registered for the webinar as a regular Attendee?

     

    BTW - I never do this.  I have had bad experiences with Panelists sharing their Join Link, thus enabling multiple people who should be Attendees to join the same webinar as Panelist.

     

    I have all of my presenters join as an Attendee, then within the webinar, I promote them to be a Panelist.  This works best for me.