Creating and Adding New Modules to your Virtual Event

Create modules to your Virtual Event to use for landing pages, email communication, and more

An event on BigMarker is made of of modules, which are individual series connected to the main series. Each one of these modules can serve many purposes. Primarily, they are used as additional landing pages that are part of your event. They can also be used in combination with ticket passes in order to send unique email communications to registrants, or to gate content behind specific tickets.

Main series and built-in modules

Whenever you create an event, you will start with a Main Series. This will be where you registrations all live, and where your email communications will first come from. Unless you redirect away from this module, it will also act as the main landing page of the event.

Additionally, when you create an event, some modules will automatically created with it: the networking center and the lounge. These are unique modules in that unlike the main series and the modules we'll discuss later, they are not their own series and are always a part of the main series. You can disable them, but you will not be able to delete them, and they will not be able to send email communications.

How to Add a New Module to a Virtual Event 

After creating your event, look for the Event Modules section of the event dashboard. This is also the first page you will see when you click Manage Event from the classic dashboard. Click on Add Module to begin.

After entering the basic information, there are a number of settings that are important to consider:

• Template - This will determine the style of landing page used. It can also determine how it will interact with the rest of the event. For example, selecting the Expo Hall template will allow it to be used in the exhibitors section. If you are not using this module for a landing page, then this is not important to consider
• Registration Checks - This will determine who has access to this module. By default, the main series will be added to the registration checks. If you are considering only having certain registration have access to this module and not all of your registrants, you'll want to remove this registration check.
• Create navigation - Enable this is you want to add this module to the header navigation of your event.

Once you save, the module will be shown in the list of modules on this page and is ready to go.

Managing the module

Once created, there are a number of settings available to you to manage this and every module. 

General settings

Click the three dot menu and slick on Settings. This will bring up a menu that lets you edit everything you configured as part of the initial creation. You will also be able to set redirect URLs within these settings.

PiP & Nudges

In that same 3-dot menu, click on PiP & Nudges in order to see some additional settings. These will determine what and how the live virtual sessions will appear on the landing page.

• PiP, or Picture-in Picture will display a currently live virtual or hybrid session in a pop-up display on the landing page. When you enable this you select which agenda the sessions that are streamed here will come from.
• The Happening Now Nudge will be a pop-up display of all of the live virtual and hybrid sessions currently live. Clicking on them will bring the attendee into the live webinar room. Just like the PiP settings, you'll determine which series these sessions will come from, but for the nudge you can select multiple series.

Classic dashboard and landing page

For any module, click on the thumbnail image to visit the classic dashboard of that module. From here you'll be able to reach the email settings, the integration settings, and everything else that you usually see as part of this dashboard. Depending on the setup of your event, you may or may not need any of these.

Additionally, click on View Landing Page in order to edit this module's landing page.

Header Navigation

As mentioned previously, when you create a module you can add it to the header navigation. If you click the Navigation tab in this page, you'll be able to customize that header further. 

You can also click on New Navigation to add a new link here, and for that you can use any URL as opposed to using the link for a module landing page. Additionally, you can make any header navigation link only visible by registrants or by those with a specific ticket.

You can also make sub-menus in these header navigation links by using sub navigation. When you enable this, a new menu will appear that allows you to add as many sub-navigation links as you like. Then, instead of clicking on the header link to go to a URL, users will hover over this option to reveal your sub-navigation links