Networking circles in rooms
Networking plays a vital role in events, and we are thrilled to introduce Networking Circles - an engaging feature that enables attendees to connect and interact seamlessly. Inspired by the Wonder networking tool, Networking Circles allows participants to join conversation circles and effortlessly move between different discussions. Setting Up Networking Circles To set up Networking Circles in your room, follow these steps: While configuring your room, choose the new app type labeledFeaturedPinning Rooms and Categories to the Navigation Bar ("Duplicating Rooms")
We are excited to introduce a new feature that allows hosts to pin rooms and categories to the navigation bar. This powerful addition expands the functionality of your event beyond the rooms area, enabling you to integrate room functionalities and app integrations directly into the main event space. The ability to pin rooms and categories to the navigation bar offers several use cases to enhance your event experience. Some possible scenarios include: Duplicating the Rooms Area: CreateFeaturedHow do I configure a website to be embeddable in an app?
In order to allow the integration of a website in a room app, the site that is being added as a web app needs to allow the embedding by the Veertly platform. This is achievable through the headers provided by the respective website. Before allowing a webpage to be embeddable on an iframe, browsers check the headers the respective website provides. If it denies the embedding, the browser refuses to connect and an error is shown in Veertly. To solve this issue, the following header must be retuPopularWhich apps can be added in a room?
You can add any web app that can be embeddable on a web page in a Veertly room. Check out our Veertly Marketplace to check out apps that we have already tested, but surely there are many more you can use! Just share with us which ones you would like to see added to this list! Check out this article about how to embed a Miro whiteboard.PopularHow can I add an app?
To add a new app to your Veertly event, simply click “Create room” or edit an existing room and click on “+ Advanced configuration”. In this expanded pane, click on the button “Add app”. A new window appears and offers you two fields: App Name: Enter the name which should be displayed to other attendees. App URL: Enter the URL of the application that you would like to embed. Please note that if available, you need to use the URL that allows embedding the app. If you are a pro user, you cSome readersHow to configure the main stage?
The main stage of your event can have one of three different modes: Video conference: a video call where participants can actively interact with each other. This mode is recommended for smaller events of less than 25 people. Live stream: all attendees will watch a live stream which is showing who is on stage. Speakers and hosts usually are in a different space (that we call backstage) whiSome readersHow can I create categories?
Similar to the rooms, you can create a category by being in the rooms area and click the “Create category” button via the settings menu on the top of the rooms pane. When creating a room, you can set: Title of the category, which can be shown on the label of the category Category URL, in case you want to have a custom url for the rooms inside this category Attendees can create rooms insSome readersHow to get a direct link to a room?
In some specific cases, you may want to have your attendees join a specific room. You can also customize the link to your room by editing the url on the edit page of your room (under the advanced configuration). You can as well edit the category url that is part of the link of your room on the edit page of the category. To get the direct link to a room, click with the right-button of your mouse on a room and you will have an option to get the link to the room, or simply copy from the url bar oncSome readersHow to update lobby details?
The lobby page of the event can be updated at any time during the event. The lobby content can be exactly the same as the description you have defined in your event page and in order to update it you can simply edit your event details. Check for more information on how to edit it below. But the lobby can also be an embedded page or website, which you can add through the cockpit in the Configuration area: (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpSome readersHow to set a custom networking area?
Veertly’s networking allows attendees to interact in 1-1 conversations with other participants or join other networking conversations. However, we understand that you might want to user other tools in the networking area. In the cockpit, under the configuration tab, you can configure a custom url for networking to use a 3rd party system. Custom Networking Area When using a custom networking area, the presSome readersWhich games can I embed into my event?
We recommend the following games: Cosmo by Ubersnap: https://virtual.ubersnap.com/demo Games (Various): https://playcanvas.com/ Kahoot: https://kahoot.it/ Multple online games: https://gamesourcecode.com/ Robotstorm https://robostorm.io/ Skribbl https://skribbl.io/ Sudoku https://showcase.gamesourcecode.com/master-sudoku/ VirtualHunt https://virtualhunt.io/ Dart https://cdn.htmlgames.com/AroundTheWorldDarts/ Billiard: https://cdn.htmlgames.com/PoolBilliard/ PacmanSome readersHow do I create a room?
In order to create a room, you need to be inside your event (you can use the backdoor access if the event is not live yet). From the Rooms tab, you have the option to create any number of rooms. After clicking the "create room" button you will be prompted to fill out its name and add a description if you'd like. If you previously created categories for your rooms you can then choose to which it belongs to. When creating a room, you can set: Name of the room Description of the eventFew readersWhy send broadcast messages?
Sending broadcast messages to your attendees can be a very good way to drive actions from your audience. You can for example define a welcome message, inform about activities going on in other places, promote your sponsors, forward your attendees to other locations of the event like a specific room or networking area, etc. You can do that by creating a message in the broadcast section of the navigation bar. Please check the videos below for more clarification and tips. Some key features availFew readersWhat is “Apps” and how can I use it?
“Apps” is a way to integrate web apps into your rooms in a Veertly event. You can use different web apps so your attendees can use them at the same time as they are talking with the other participants. This allows you to extend your event much beyond video calls and engage with your audience! Get inspired by possible room apps. With Veertly you can easily add nearly any page that you wish! Check below how to add a photo booth and check our app store here (https://coda.io/d/Veertly-Help-CenterdFew readersHow many rooms can I create?
There are no limit to the number of rooms you may have.Few readersHow to configure the backstage?
In order to configure the backstage, just add the link to your Restream studio or other embeddable livestream platform on the main stage tab of the cockpit of your event. Please note that in order to have the backstage activated, you need to enable it on both the main stage backstage section but also on the Look & Feel section.Few readersHow do polls work?
In the polls section, you can create a poll for your participants. The polls can contain several possible answers but participants can only select one option. You can add multiple answers and reorder them if you desire. For each poll you can select: If you want to notify all attendees about the new poll or not If the votes of your participants are anonymous or not (if not anonymous, you can download the results in the cockpit) When the results are visible to the attendees (wheFew readersHow to configure polls?
Similar to the networking area, you can also replace the default Veertly’s polls functionalities with a 3rd party solution. For that, you can set the URL of your desired system in the cockpit under the configuration tab. You can also see how here: For more solutions to enrich your event with polls and Q&A solutions, check our list of appsFew readersHow to limit number of attendees in rooms?
If you want to limit the amount of people per room, in the advanced configuration you can set the number of attendees that are allowed to enter. By default, rooms are limited to 42 people but you can increase to any number.Few readersHow to manage chat messages?
In the global chat, as a host you can manage the existing messages by: Archiving the message Pinning the message to the top of the chat In order to reach these functionalities, click on the three dots menu that are visible when hovering a chat message (if you are a host).Few readersWhy would I use a room?
Rooms are the most engaging feature of Veertly! They are a great way to drive engagement since you can setup each one with a specific purpose or add several apps inside. Some use case for rooms: team building activities; promote discussions by topic of interest; collaboration tools, create a leisure area. Just add a variety and number of embedded applications as well as whiteboard or collaboration tools! This motivates participants to interact with each other more. But in order to geFew readersWhat is the backstage for?
If your event is configured with a live stream, as a host you can also enable your attendees to enter directly into the live stream by activating the “Backstage” section of your event. The backstage area allows you to integrate any other application you may use to manage your live stream. We strongly recommend using Restream to create your live stream, as it is very easy for all participants and hosts. However you can also use other systems like Zoom by placing the linkFew readersHow to configure a social wall?
The Social Wall feature of Veertly lists tweets with a certain HashTag directly into your event. This can be extremely interesting for hybrid events to connect people in the venue with the audience online! Please note that this feature needs to be activated by Veertly’s team and has an extra cost. Please contact us if you need to know more.Few readersWhich type of apps can I create?
You can create the following type of apps: Web app: any web page that can be embeddable in another web page. You just need to configure the name and the url of the app. Video player: this type of app allows you to embed any video from a video site (like youtube, vimeo, twitch, facebook, etc), or any live stream. You only need to provide the link to the video itself. This is using the same mechanism as the Main Stage, which allows you to have parallel live sessions in addition to thFew readersHow to create an agenda?
As an organizer you can have an agenda for your own event! Please see how to create and manage it in the following video:Few readersHow many people can be in a room?
Each room can have up to 100 people, but if everyone has their camera on it might not be displayed for some, as this depends on each person's bandwidth and hardware and the connection may become unstable. Therefore we recommend a limit of 30 to 40 people in a video conference for an optimum experience, unless most cameras are disabled.Few readersHow to add contact cards to your event?
Contact cards can be added to rooms. They allow participants to know which person is associated with a particular brand and who to contact within the event for more information. Please see how to add a contact card in the following video:Few readersWhy can I not see my broadcast messages when I should?
This may happen if your pc's clock is not accurate. You might not see the broadcast at all or have it delayed somewhat. Please see how to correct the time if you have a Mac here. And if on Windows 10: Navigate to Control Panel Clock, Language and Region Date and time Set the time and date Internet time Change settings check Synchronize with an Internet time server and click Update now.Few readersEventmap templates
Next to our integrated event maps, we additionally offer a variety of eventmaps for different use cases. Here you can find a tutorial on how to use them. If you like to download an eventmap just right-click on the image and save it as a picture. Summer Party Summer Party Christmas Market Christmas Market (https://storage.crisp.Few readersHow to embed videos?
It is possible to embed videos either on the Main Stage or in a Room. For the Main Stage just choose 'Embedded App' in the cockpit as so: And in the 'App URL' enter the embeddable link of the video you would like to have. For example, a YouTube video, this is found under the 'Share' icon: Click on 'Embed' after: !Few readersWhat languages are supported by Veertly?
When you enter an event our platform automatically uses the browser language you have, if not available it defaults to English. You can see what languages we support at the moment through your profile icon in the right upper corner when you are in an event. Just click on it and on 'Language' in the menu that shows up: At the moment we support the following: (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/Few readersHow does the new guest list welcome page look like?
When a guest tries to access the event using his/her guest list access it will first go to a brief welcome page that allows the verification of the guest profile used to enter the event. Please see how it looks in the following video:Few readersHow is an event limited to one tab?
By limiting an event to only one tab, the attendee will not appear in the same event twice. Please see how in the following video:Few readersHow to add URL placeholders in the new areas of the navigation bar?
Similar to what is already possible in the rooms, you can now use the URL placeholders in the custom areas added to the navigation bar. When adding a custom area, the URL field is now allowing the same placeholders as the rooms: The available placeholders are: "FIRSTNAME" - First name of the user accessing the page "LASTNAME" - Last name of the user accessing the page "ISHOST" -Few readersHow to create a download area (file manager) in Veertly?
The 'File Manager' feature allows you to upload files to your event for your audience to look at or to download. This is very valuable to add documents to sponsor booths, share presentations of the keynote speakers or uploading videos after the livestream ended and making information available after the official event. Check out our Youtube video for more information how to upload files and how to make it available to your audience or check out more instructions here (https://feedback.veertly.Few readers