Presenters and admins can manually start the webinar or rely on an automatic start to let attendees in
All webinars on BigMarker need to start in order to open up for attendees, but depending on your settings, you can either manually start the session or automatically let attendees in.
Automatically starting the webinar
In the waiting room settings, after enabling you'll see an option for Webinar automatically opens at the scheduled start time. With this enabled, registrants will be able to see the attendee experience at the webinar start time. If they are in the waiting room, attendees will automatically redirect from the waiting room to the live attendee experience at the scheduled start time.
Manually starting the webinar
If you want to have more control over your webinar start time, you have a few options. First, before the webinar start time, you'll see an option to go live early in the top bar of the Studio. This appears even if you have set the waiting room to be on and the webinar to open at the start time.
If you want to turn off the automatic opening, you can either set the setting mentioned above (Webinar automatically opens at the scheduled start time) to be disabled. This allows you to have a waiting room, but have full control over the start time. You can also disable the waiting room entirely. This has the same effect, but there will no longer be a waiting room.