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Can anyone share their recommendations for (or against) hybrid meeting hardware? We’re going to be setting up the ability for hybrid learning events for the first time and need to shop around to find the right technology. I’ve used the meeting owl in previous jobs, but am looking to learn more about what’s out there. What’s worked for you? What hasn’t? 

We have ~40 employees with the majority of them being office-based. We’d like to create a more collaborative experience for hybrid meetings/trainings where everyone can both contribute and easily hear the in-person presenters. Some of our employees have laptops they can bring to a meeting location, while others are working on desktops so they’d either need to be isolated at their desk, or have a good community setup to contribute and have easy access to the content shared regardless of whether the presenter is in person or virtual. 

Eventually we may use this for customers as well, in which the majority of attendees would be virtual. 

I have a meeting with Maxhub tomorrow to see what they’re offering. 

@caitlin at our company we use Teams rooms. The room has a touchscreen tablet mounted on the wall to connect to the Teams meeting and control equipment in the room. There are microphones, a camera, a projector, and screen in the room. When the presenter shares their screen it projects on the screen and is visible to everyone online. The online meeting attendees can hear and see the presenter and their presentation. It mostly runs like a regular Teams meeting, if you are used to using Teams. However, a minor issue with the setup is that if someone online wants to speak the room must be muted or everyone online hears an echo. As the presenter it is easy to forget to do this, or if you are not used to presenting in the room you don’t even know to do it. You also must have your microphone and speakers muted on your laptop in the room, but you realize very quickly if you have forgotten to do that as the sound echoes in the room.

@caitlin at our company we use Teams rooms. The room has a touchscreen tablet mounted on the wall to connect to the Teams meeting and control equipment in the room. There are microphones, a camera, a projector, and screen in the room. When the presenter shares their screen it projects on the screen and is visible to everyone online. The online meeting attendees can hear and see the presenter and their presentation. It mostly runs like a regular Teams meeting, if you are used to using Teams. However, a minor issue with the setup is that if someone online wants to speak the room must be muted or everyone online hears an echo. As the presenter it is easy to forget to do this, or if you are not used to presenting in the room you don’t even know to do it. You also must have your microphone and speakers muted on your laptop in the room, but you realize very quickly if you have forgotten to do that as the sound echoes in the room.

thank you!

@caitlin - for your consideration - if you want for Docebo to be able to help with tracking these types of events, there are a few platform flavors that can be in your favor. Take a look here.

Creating and managing ILT and VILT courses – Docebo Help & Support

 

 

In terms of engagement I found the platform wf.hopin.com to be incredible. I attended an online summit on this platform once and it was super interactive and user friendly. 

While I haven’t used it as an admin, only as an attendee, I imagine the event link could be added as a custom tool in Docebo, and I assume there is space for further integrations through the Docebo API as well.

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