Author malw
Date 02 Dec 20, 07:49
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Running a Hybrid Meeting (Allowing both physical and online attendees) |
Many clubs have experienced disruption because of the Covid health emergency and are unable to run normal face-to face meetings in the way that they would always have done in the past. As time has gone by many clubs are now able to run some face-to-face meetings but must limit the number of attendees to the safe limit allowing social distancing at their venue. easy-Speak now supports the management of this need, limiting the number of people who are able to book their attendance in person but allowing the others to attend online and managing both types of attendees. Meeting Location: The meeting location is the physical address where you plan to run your meeting - but it may also be the choice of conferencing software that you will use for your online meeting - or a combination of both physical location and choice of online conferencing tool. This article explains how to set up your locations: Creating the Meeting Create your meeting as you would for any physical or online-only meeting - but select a location that you have set up as allowing both physical and online attendees. This aricle explains how to create a meeting: Running the Meeting You may run the meeting exactly as you would for a traditional face-to-face or entirely online Toastmasters experience - but there are a few differences: Additional choices for attendance: You will see the choice of attending in person or attending online. Note that the physical option will not be shown if the room has reached its maximumum limit - but you may still attend online. (The two grapic icons of a house or a computer with a tick are used on many screen to signify HOW a person will attend) Additional choices for accepting role assignments: Click on whichever option is appropriate to confirm your role and also confirm attendance. Additional choices to volunteer for a vacant role If you have not yet confirmed attendance, two options to take a vacant role will be presented, online and in-person. Closing the Meeting If you are a club officer or Meeting Manager with the system permissions to record what actually happened and close the meeting you will see the full range of otions to record who attended in person and who was online. This article explains how to close a meeting: |