Live room controls
Go live, layouts, screen share, recording, waiting room, open floor, breakouts, polls, Q&A, whiteboard and slides.
Green room and Go Live
If a session starts in the green room (prep mode), only hosts are backstage. Use it to check your camera, load slides and talk with co-hosts. Attendees see a waiting page. The Go Live button unlocks 15 minutes before the scheduled start; press it to open the session to attendees.
Layouts
Choose between grid and speaker views, and pin someone to keep them large. Hosts can force a layout for everyone else: grid, speaker or host only. Forced layouts also apply to people who join later.
On Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge) you can pop camera tiles into a floating window so screen share or slides can use the full stage. This uses Document Picture-in-Picture and is not available in Firefox or Safari.
Recording
Owner, admin, host and co-host roles can start and stop recording. A visible indicator tells everyone when a recording is running. Finished recordings appear in your library after processing, where you can play or download them.
Waiting room and lock
Lock the meeting to enable the waiting room. New joiners wait on a screen until a host admits or denies them; hosts see a Waiting to join list in People and can admit everyone at once. People already inside stay in.
Open floor
By default only hosts can use mic and camera. Turn on Open floor to let other roles publish audio and video, for example in a discussion. Screen share, recording, whiteboard, slides and breakouts stay host-tier only.
Moderation
Hosts and moderators can mute a person, mute all, remove a person or ban them, and send an announcement to everyone. Hosts can promote an attendee to presenter.
Chat, Q&A and polls
- Chat: public messages and optional private chat.
- Q&A: attendees ask, upvote and hosts answer or dismiss.
- Polls: create a poll, watch votes arrive live and close it.
Breakout rooms
Hosts can split people into breakout rooms for small-group work and bring everyone back to the main room.
Whiteboard, slides and media
Draw on a shared whiteboard, present uploaded slide decks and play videos to everyone. Presenters can present these, but only hosts and admin roles can add or delete library content.
Classroom format
Choose Classroom as the format of a meeting or as a room default. It starts in the green room with the speaker layout, keeps Open floor off, opens Q&A, and turns on hand-raise, polls, breakouts and attendance.
- Attendees get a prominent Raise hand button. Hosts see a Raised hands list at the top of the People panel and can lower any hand.
- Attendance: hosts open Attendance from the People panel, or from the event page for past sessions. The table shows each person, when they first joined, when they last left and their total minutes, and each join and leave segment. Choose Download CSV to save it.
Anything you set explicitly on the room or event (for example Open floor) wins over the format preset. How many people and how long a classroom can run depends on your plan.
Studio (broadcast) format
Studio is for produced broadcasts, available for meetings and webinars. The host starts backstage in the green room, controls the stage layout for everyone (grid, speaker or host only), and attendee chat is host-only.
- Host-only chat: attendees can read the chat but not post. Hosts can switch it off and on from the Chat panel.
- Q&A stays open, Open floor is off, and camera tiles are limited to 16.
- Recording starts automatically when your plan includes recording; a recording indicator shows while it runs.
Studio availability and its size and time limits are set by your plan.
Side panels
Each rail button opens or closes its panel. On desktop you can have two panels side by side. On mobile one panel opens at a time.
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