Before Your Session
One to four days before your session you will receive an automated email from our scheduling system containing information about the session. This email will include the schedule, general information about how the sessions will work, the Zoom link, and the sli.do link. You will receive one such email for each session where you are a presenter, chair, or organizer. In each Zoom meeting there will be a technician managing the stream and assisting with technicial issues during the session.
Joining Your Session’s Zoom Meeting
The Zoom meeting will begin 15 minutes before the session starts to allow the contributors, chair, and technician to set up and test everyone’s audio and video set up. Make sure you are in a well-lit and quiet room, and have your laptop plugged in. The Zoom meeting information will be included in the automated session information email. Please make sure your Zoom is updated to the latest version (5.8). After the audio/video check the technician will communicate with you over Zoom’s text chat, so have this open in the pop-out view mode.
After the A/V setup check you should disable your video unless you are preparing to speak or speaking on the stream.
During Your Session
If your session contains playback of pre-recorded videos (e.g., paper presentations), the technician will play these back directly on Youtube. The technican will switch between the pre-recorded videos and the live session.
Do Not Watch Yourself on Youtube
Even with the ultra low latency stream setting there are about 5 seconds of delay between the stream and Youtube. If you are watching Youtube for feedback on when you are live or what is playing on the stream, the delay will be disorienting and you will be late. When the technician’s countdown to going live for Q&A or introductions ends, you are live! Having the Youtube stream playing in the background can also result in audio feedback on the stream when you are talking.
Live Q&A
About one minute before the presentation ends the technician will stop screen-sharing to set up for the Q&A portion. At this time you should turn your video on. When your presentation video has ended the technician will switch the stream to display the Zoom meeting to allow live responses to questions from attendees. Questions will be asked via sli.do. The chair will monitor the sli.do and relay them to the presenters.
As the Session Chair
As the chair you will provide live introductions to each recorded talk and ask the presenter question from sli.do, similar to the typical chair role in an in-person conference. Each title slide for a session will contain a QR code that will allow attendees to ask sli.do questions on their mobile device. Please point out this code and remind attendees to use sli.do for their questions Sli.do questions will be sorted by most popular and will be moderated by the technican. It is important you repeat each question back over Zoom so that the presenter and other attendees can hear them. Please also see our example video from 2020 below on chairing the session. The only differences this year are the use of sli.do and the removal of youtube chat.
The End of Your Session
There is a hard cut-off 10 minutes after the session is scheduled to end to allow time to set up the next session, so please keep to the session schedule. Additional discussion after the session can be continued on Discord.
Example Session Tutorials
Please watch the example session tutorials for 2020 below to see what to expect as a presenter in the virtual conference. The only differences between 2020 and this year are the inclusion of sli.do questions and the removal of youtube chat.
Recorded Talk with Live Q&A
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Live Presentation over Zoom
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Live Panel over Zoom
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Chairing a Virtual Session
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