Session Room

While the CTI Presentation Management Application is a cloud-based application, CTI can also provide hardware for onsite meetings. This includes laptops for the Speaker Ready Room (SRR), enabling speakers to upload, edit, and preview presentations, and laptops for the session rooms for speakers to access, navigate, and speak through their presentations.

Automatic Flags for Session Media Item Uploads

Administrators can use the Session Type details flags under Media control & automation to indicate how, by default, newly uploaded session media item flags will trickle down to each session under the session type umbrella.

Administrators can use the Session Type details flags under Media control & automation to indicate how, by default, newly uploaded session media item flags will trickle down to each session under the session type umbrella.

Please note only newly uploaded sessions will receive the updated flag after it has been set in Session Type details, meaning this needs to be done before session uploads start. For example, if I want PDF files to be flagged as “Use in session room,” only after I check the flag below will the newly uploaded PDFs have the flag automatically set.

The media items an administrator creates in Settings > Media Components > Media items will appear as the rows in the card’s table.

Session and Presentation Time Calculations

An administrator can determine whether an activity should be incorporated into the session role’s start and end time auto-recalculation. Checking flags includes the activity and session role status in the presenter time calculations in Session details.

An administrator can determine whether an activity should be incorporated into the session role’s start and end time auto-recalculation under:
1. cAdmin > Sessions
2. Session types
3. Session type details (Time calculation is at the bottom).

Checking flags includes the activity and session role status in the presenter time calculations in Session details. Leaving flags unchecked means the session role times will be “display only” – allowing you to set times for those session roles manually (e.g., Chair, Moderator) that will not affect the calculated presentation times.

Start and End Times outside of the Session Start/End Time will turn red (image above), alerting the administrator of an issue. To correct the problem, either manually change the Start/End time by clicking and changing or, if the administrator sets up the Time calculations explained above, selecting “Recalculate Start/End Times.”

Time Calculation Session Roles

Administrators can determine whether an activity should be incorporated into the session role’s start and end time auto-recalculation.

Checking flags includes the activity and session role status in the presenter time calculations in Session details.

Leaving flags unchecked means the session role times will be “display only” – allowing you to set times for those session roles manually (e.g., Chair, Moderator) that will not affect the calculated presentation times.

To view Time Calculations, go to Settings > Sessions > Hover over a Session type and click the details arrow.


Deleting a primary media item automatically deletes the Thumbnail URL

When a user uploads a primary media item, whether through the Portal, Speaker Ready Room, or cAdmin, and the auto-promotion rules auto-update the Thumbnail URL, the opposite effect occurs when deleted.

When a user uploads a primary media item, whether through the Portal, Speaker Ready Room, or cAdmin, and the auto-promotion rules auto-update the Thumbnail URL, the opposite effect occurs when deleted.

For example, when a presenter deletes a presentation from the Speaker Ready Room, the Thumbnail URL used on the cAttendee website will automatically be deleted along with the primary media item ID. No auto-delete rules need to be set up.

When the presenter uploads another primary media item, if auto-promotion Thumbnail URL rules have been set up, the Thumbnail URL will be restored to the newly uploaded primary media item. Thumbnail URL auto-promotion rules can be set up in Settings > Activities > Activity details, and Settings > Sessions > Session type details.

Session Organizer

Administrators can view and edit a presentation to roles other than the presenter. Like a presenter, permitted roles can access the presentation through the Portal to check for quality control. Another level of edit permission enables them to make changes to the presentation as well.

Administrators can view and edit a presentation to roles other than the presenter. Like a presenter, permitted roles can access the presentation through the Portal to check for quality control. Another level of edit permission enables them to make changes to the presentation as well.  This functionality has been commonly requested by on-site presentation management customers and is beginning to be requested by customers organizing hybrid and virtual meetings as a tactic to reduce the cost of external A/V labor.

Collection templates used for this session type

With our new capabilities for Media Collection Templates, we offer clients a system to both regulate and monitor their multi-file presentation upload. Typically, different session types have different presentation types, so we now offer a means to assign Media Collection Templates by Session Types.

With our new capabilities for Media Collection Templates, we offer clients a system to both regulate and monitor their multi-file presentation upload. Typically, different session types have different presentation types, so we now offer a means to assign Media Collection Templates by Session Types.

Media control and automation for session type details

We are continuing to reduce the effort required for administrators and partners to configure and manage the CTI applications. In line with this goal, administrators will be able to set a variety of defaults within a Session Type that will automatically populate when individual sessions of that type are created.

We are continuing to reduce the effort required for administrators and partners to configure and manage the CTI applications. In line with this goal, administrators will be able to set a variety of defaults within a Session Type that will automatically populate when individual sessions of that type are created. 

Color-Coded Session Scheduler

Colors in the Session Scheduler organize filter types, with the Session type filter being the most common. Each Session type has an assigned color on the grid, aiding schedulers in quickly assessing programming variety and highlighting special needs sessions.

Colors in the Session Scheduler organize filter types, with the Session type filter being the most common. Each Session type has an assigned color on the grid, aiding schedulers in quickly assessing programming variety and highlighting special needs sessions.