With Sequel.io events, your audience always has a way to engage with you and you with them (more on those options here!).
For some use cases, however, you may want to limit the amount of engagement options the audience sees and even your presenters and other hosts.
Some example scenarios for this use are:
Keeping a clean look for registration - someone registers and they see the video thumbnail and nothing else. No confusion, all brand.
Leaving webinar-specific content for day-of engagement only - attendees don't see polls, resources, etc. ahead of time, only as a live perk.
Reduce confusion on whether chat is monitored, etc.
Setting Event-Specific Engagement Options
To control the engagement options like chat, polls, etc. for a specific event,
Go to the "Events" area and find the event you want to edit for engagement.
Navigate to the event's "Settings" area of the event and the "Themes & Features" tab.
You'll see many options, as pictured below and can toggle ON/OFF as you need and hit "Save" to implement changes in real-time.
Note: If you're switching between color themes, be sure you have the right theme selected before making changes!
Since these changes are real time, this is a great post-event step in order to keep replays focused on content.
Setting the Global Default for Engagement Options
As many other features in Sequel, engagement options have a default you can set for all your events at the workspace level and then change as needed at the event-level. Setting the defaults at the workspace level allows ease of workflow and saves time.
For example, if you had Chat and Polls OFF at the workspace level, your newly created events would start out with those options OFF as well.
To set this, navigate to "Customization" area within the left navigation of the Sequel dashboard.
Scroll to the bottom to the section "Core Features"
As desired for your starting default, toggle ON/OFF engagement options.
You can also control things like live reactions, english CC, and presenter-specific permissions from this area.
Some options like Participant List (of names) and count (number icon) have granular options to show to no one or only show to presenters.
Speakers often like to know how many people are tuning in so the "hosts & presenters" option is a popular setting for this.