Event & Portal Setup

What is a Live with Archive event?

Live with Archive events are presentations broadcast from a Live Acquisition Source and automatic...

What is an On-Demand event?

On-Demand events can be an archive of a Live event or an On-Demand only event. On-Demand only eve...

What is a Simulated Live event?

If enabled on your account, you may see Simulated Live listed as an Event Type. Simulated Live al...

What is a portal?

A portal is a website that you set up to host multiple events, replays, and other content from a ...

Add events to a portal

With a portal, viewers can register one time and attend any of the events on the portal. After yo...

Add breakout sessions to a portal

Engage your viewers and allow viewers to attend breakout sessions from the portal agenda page. Af...

Auto-fields for event details on a portal

Jump to: Auto-field Reference | Customization Example The portal agenda displays specific detail...

Have viewers register for individual events on a portal

Available with Simple List and Custom portal layouts (on the Portal Layout tab). With a portal, ...

Sort events and breakout sessions into categories

After you add events and breakout sessions to the portal, the portal automatically sorts them by ...

Create and schedule a Live event

Live events are broadcast live at the date and time you schedule. When setting up a Live event, c...

Create an On-Demand event

On-Demand events are recordings that can be watched at any time. When setting up an On-Demand eve...

Create and schedule a Simulated Live event

Simulated Live events are recordings that are broadcast at the date and time you schedule. You ca...

Change a Simulated Live event from live acquisition to pre-recorded content

If you schedule a Simulated Live event to be recorded and then decide you'd rather upload pre-rec...

Set up and run a Simulated Live event with live Q&A

By default, attendees type their questions in the Ask a Question box during the Simulated Live ev...

Change the event window layout for a recorded event

For Live, On-Demand, and Simulated Live events. Use layout switching in a recorded event to chang...

Embed a webcast in another website

You can embed your webcast in another website using an iframe element. Depending on your desired ...

Enable layout switching for an event

By default, events with slides or other content tabs show the video player and content side-by-si...

Enable third-party analytics for an event

For more detailed metrics on viewer activity, you can use the Third-Party Analytics feature to se...

Limit presenter actions in the Live Studio

Control what your presenters see and what they can interact with in the Live Studio during the ev...

Set up an event in another language

Language templates contain many common text elements translated from English to other languages. ...

Set up Guest Administrator accounts

After scheduling an event, invite your presenters, moderators, and schedulers and give them Guest...

Accessing events and attendee portals in China

Due to internet restrictions on China, some viewers may have trouble accessing the standard Event...

Add custom questions to a registration form

In addition to standard registration questions, you can add custom questions to the registration ...

Add marketing consent tracking to a registration form

You can collect marketing consent from event and portal registrants and provide links to privacy ...

Allow people to attend an event without registering

If you do not want to collect any information from attendees, set up the event with no registrati...

Auto-fields for event landing pages

Jump to: Auto-field reference | Custom calendar reminders By default, the landing page includes...

Bulk registration for an event

Add-on. Please contact your sales representative for additional information. With bulk registrat...

Set up the registration form for an event

The event landing page includes a registration form. You can use the standard registration form q...

Create unique links to track registrations from different sources

Campaign Source Tracking is feature that is used to create a unique URL for each location your ev...

Auto-fields for emails

Jump to: Auto-field Reference | Registrant Auto-fields On the Emails & Marketing tab, you can en...

Send follow-up emails for an event

Schedule one or more emails to be sent after the event ends to promote future events, gather feed...

Send registration confirmation emails for an event

Send a registration confirmation email to attendees after they register for the event. By default...

Send reminder emails for an event

You can send one or more reminder emails to people who registered for your event. By default, a r...

Send reminder emails for a converted Simulated Live event

When you convert a Live event into a Simulated Live event or change a Simulated Live event from l...

About Q&A

Allow attendees to submit questions during a Live, Simulated Live, or On-Demand event or through ...

Add a third-party video to a custom tab

Enhance your events by including videos that viewers can play at any time. You can include YouTub...

Add third-party tools to an event

Enhance your events by including interactive tools like captioning, polling, surveys, real-time Q...

How do I create a certificate?

The system requires a .PDF file be uploaded, which will serve as the template that is customized ...

Overlay video specs and requirements

For Live, On-Demand, and Simulated Live events. You can upload as many as 10 overlay videos to y...

PowerPoint Best Practices

General Best Practices PowerPoint slides need to be uploaded in advance. Slides should be upload...

Primary media clip specs and requirements

You can upload as many media clips to your event as you like and include them in your On-Demand o...

Remove embedded fonts from slides

Embedded fonts are not supported. Before uploading a slide deck to an event, you must remove embe...

Supported 3rd party tools

Enhance your events by including interactive elements with third-party apps and platforms. By def...

Upload audio clips for use in a recorded event

For audio only broadcasts. To include pre-recorded audio in an On-Demand or Simulated Live event,...

Upload videos for use in a recorded event

To include videos in a recorded event, upload them to your event content. Then in the editing stu...

Upload videos to play in a Live event

To share videos during a Live event, upload them to your event content. Then in the Live Studio, ...

Upload Slides to an Event

The webcasting platform allows presenters to upload their presentation content so it can be displ...

Add headshots to an audio event

Use Headshots in your Audio-Only events to display a photo of the current speaker or logo to the ...

Add content download or external links

Use the Event Resources option to share supplemental files or links with your audience. This is c...

About computer-generated transcripts

Automated transcripts are available for any type of event - Live, On-Demand, and Simulated Live. ...

Add a computer-generated transcript to a recorded event

For English events only. You can add an automated transcript to an On-Demand or Simulated Live. ...

Add human-generated captions to a recorded event

To add captions to a replay or to an On-Demand or Simulated Live event, you need a timed caption ...

Add human-generated captioning to a live event

The Webcast platform offers options for human-generated or computer-generated captions on an even...

Add live interpretation with Interprefy

Extend your event’s global reach by pairing your webcast with Interprefy's interpretation widget....

Download a computer-generated transcript

You can download a copy of the event transcript as a .TXT file. Generated transcripts are availab...

Edit a computer-generated transcript

For automated transcripts. You can open a generated transcript in the editing studio and review a...

Add computer-generated captioning to a live event