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!
- 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.
- 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 itomlinson ,
We do have an existing thread on this topic, which I have merged now. Regarding the timeline for development, we don't have any updates yet and will certainly let everyone know as soon as information becomes available.
I like the idea of an option for attendees to chat with each other. We looked at GoToTraning and it doesn't fit our needs as well as GoToWebinar. Often we have smaller groups on a discussion-based webinar and we unmute their lines (individually, which is time-consuming, but that's another issue). It would be very helpful to have the option to allow attendees to chat with each other so they could share resources and tips while someone else is talking.
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
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
- That's fine if Citrix is worried that some orgs might have privacy rules, but that's very obviously not a concern for many others (based on the large number of people asking for this feature). It seems simple enough to give us a checkbox on the webinar management page so you can CHOOSE if you want to prevent attendees from chatting.
We just switched to GoToWebinar and didn't realize attendees couldn't chat between each other. We would definately use this feature
- I'd be glad to discuss as well. It is super frustrating not to have this feature.
- Unfortunately it saved only half of my Q&A in the reports last time. :-(
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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.
- Meg,Is it too late to talk with developers about this? I am always happy to talk with the team. I have done it a few times already.
