Client enhancements to support Webinar style events
Webinars are mostly one-way presentation style events where participants are not able to see other participants. Participants also do not have the ability to broadcast audio or video. They can interact in the session only using the chat feature.
This update improves the overall participant experience and performance of Webinar style
events in Cornerstone Classroom App and Express clients by introducing the
following changes:
- Participants can view only leaders, presenters, and themselves in the People
panel. Only leaders and presenters can view all participants. For example, the
following figure displays People panels of a participant and a leader. Peter,
who is a participant can only see himself and the leader in the panel, whereas
Admin, who is a leader can see herself along with the participants Peter and
Clarke.
- The People icon in the sidebar displays the total number of participants in a
Webinar to leaders and presenters only. It does not display the number to
participants though.
- The Breakout room feature is removed from leader and presenter views because it is not typically used in Webinar style events.
- The context menu for leader and presenters is changed to remove menu options
that are not allowed or not applicable in a Webinar event, like Give microphone
control, Ask to share, Give AppShare Control, Control audio, Promote to
presenter, and so on.
- The hand raise gesture is removed for all users. All other gestures are enabled
and displayed to leaders, presenters, and participants in their own People
panels.
- The video camera option is removed for participants. Participants can only view leader or presenter video. It is available to leader and presenters though.
- The microphone option is removed for participants. Instead, participants now see
a speaker icon in the sidebar. Whereas, leaders and presenters see the speaker
icon for participants in the People panel.
- The markup toolbar is removed for participants.
- The chat send options for participants are restricted to 'All' and 'All
Presenters'. The default option is 'All'.