Using Event Mode

You use Event Mode to minimize background noise, control who presents their screen, and control who starts their video. Only meeting hosts, moderators, and delegates can turn on Event Mode after a meeting starts. Event Mode changes a meeting in several ways:

• Hosts, moderators and delegates must sign in with their Amazon Chime credentials in order to start Event Mode.

• Only hosts, moderators, and delegates can present during a meeting.

• Event Mode doesn't automatically mute in-room conference systems. Attendees must use the mute button on the in-room hardware. Hosts, delegates, moderators, or other presenters can use the meeting roster to mute and unmute the conference room, but the in-room hardware mute overrides muting from the Amazon Chime roster.

• If an in-room conference system joins a meeting with Event Mode already on, the attendees in the room can't start video or share content.

• To allow an in-room system to start video and share content, meeting hosts can wait for the rooms to join before they enable Event Mode. As needed, hosts, delegates, moderators, and presenters can disable Event Mode, then have the room join.

Starting and stopping event mode

To manage Event Mode, do the following:

To start Event Mode

1. Open the More options menu ( ), then choose Start event mode.

2. In the Start event mode dialog box, review the information about Event mode, then choose Start event mode.

To stop Event Mode

• Open the More options menu ( ), then choose Stop event mode.

Adding and removing presenters

By default in Event Mode, only hosts, moderators, and delegates can act as presenters. However, hosts, moderators, and delegates who sign in to their Amazon Chime account can grant presenter status to other attendees.

To promote an attendee to presenter

1. In the left control bar, open the More options menu ( ). Then, choose Add event mode presenters.

2. In the dialog box that appears, select one or more attendees and choose Add.

The selected attendees receive a notification, and the event mode icon ( ) appears next to their names in the roster.

To demote an attendee from presenter

1. In the meeting roster, open the horizontal ellipsis menu next to the attendee you want to demote.

2. Choose Remove from presenters.

Meeting hosts, moderators, or delegates who sign in to the Amazon Chime app can also perform the following actions in Event Mode:

• To remove an attendee from the presenters list, choose their name on the roster, then choose Remove from Presenters.

• To turn off Event Mode, open the More options menu ( ), then choose Disable Event Mode. Once you turn off Event Mode, attendees can mute and unmute themselves, share their screens, and turn their video off or on.