During a webinar or virtual event session, moderators can bring presenters on- or offstage in the webinar room, giving presenters different sharing privileges within the webinar room.
On-stage presenters "have the floor" and can share their microphone, webcam, screen, files and multimedia with the audience.
Offstage presenters are essentially muted and cannot access the presenter features (such as enabling their screen for screen-sharing, switching the slides, sharing their camera, etc) and maintain an audience view until they are manually brought onstage by a moderator.
It's important to note that when presenters are offstage, their cameras turn off completely. When being brought onstage, they will need to turn on their cameras again. If you would like a presenter's camera to stay on while they are offstage, you can remove them from scene.
How to Bring Presenters On and Offstage
At any time during the session, moderators can see which presenters are on and offstage by checking the Moderator Control Panel which is located to the left of the presentation window. You can determine which presenters are on and offstage by locating the"On Stage Presenters" and "Off Stage Presenters" headings.
To bring a presenter on or offstage, moderators can click the three horizontal dots next to that presenter's webcam and microphone icons. In the menu that appears, choose Bring on stage or Bring off stage.
For offstage presenters:
For on stage presenters:
When presenters are brought on stage, admins can turn on the presenter mic and camera by selecting the mic and camera icons next to their name.
Adjusting Default On/Offstage Settings
By default, all presenters are onstage at the beginning of their session. To change these settings before your session begins, navigate to your session configuration screens and select the Edit tab.
Select Advanced Settings in the left-hand menu, then scroll to Default presenters on/off stages. By default, this is turned on. To bring presenters offstage at the beginning of the session, select Off Stage and click Save Changes to complete.
