Downgrade Video Device

[tneu]

Dear community,

some video devices have joined my webinar. They won't be participating actively, so I want to downgrade them to "regular participants" instead of discussion participants. But I can't change their roles/rights, the option is not even given. For normal discussion participants the option to change their role is there.

[Jonathan Schulenberg · Accepted solution]

That isn’t possible in the current architecture. We’ll see if that changes later this year when webinars moves over to the Webex Suite Meeting Platform backend.

For now, video endpoints join as a panelist via Locus if cloud-registered or using Edge for Devices with Optimized Join Experience enabled; or, SIP if using CUCM/Expressway. They can also join as an attendee via WebRTC with notable limitations. You cannot promote/demote since the endpoint has to join via different methods.

A common approach to handling “extra” panelists in a webinar is using Stage Manager , moving panelists that you want shown to stage, hiding video PiPs of other panelists, and syncing the stage to all attendees.

[tneu]

Hi Jonathan,
thanks for your reply, that does answer my question. Even if I might have to do some research on the technical terms you mentioned!