Presenters can be anyone who moderates, monitors, or presents during your virtual event. They have unique access to create an engaging event with your attendees.
Presenters play a key role in managing and delivering your virtual event. Whether moderating discussions, monitoring engagement, or leading presentations, they have exclusive tools to enhance the attendee experience. From sharing files and slides to using interactive features like whiteboards and laser pointers, presenters help create a dynamic and seamless event. Explore the steps below to set up presenters for your event.
Adding Presenters to Your Event
1. On the Manage Webinar dashboard, select the Presenters tab.
2. Click +Add New Presenter to add a new presenter.
In the pop-up that appears, add your presenter's name, title, bio, secondary bio, email address, and photo. If you are using a custom page, you can upload their photo as a badge image, which will be used similar to how their presenter photo is used in your webinar or virtual event.
You can opt to add the Presenter's social media profiles, which includes: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and their own personal website.
Be sure to enter your presenter's most updated and active email address, as reminders and notifications will be sent to the email address entered in their presenter profile.
Note: The Admin of the channel will automatically be added as a presenter to each session hosted by the channel.
If you would like Presenters to receive email notifications from BigMarker to confirm their session, provide reminders one day and 30 minutes before their scheduled start time, and schedule a practice session; enable or disable presenter notifications via the Send presenter invitation email notification and Send presenter reminder emails checkboxes. We strongly recommend enabling presenter notifications.
Beyond that, complete the presenter profile as much as possible, including the following permissions.
Adjust Presenter Permissions
These permissions are not the only way you can customize the abilities of an individual presenter. Check out this guide on the advanced presenter permissions for how you can control what each presenter is able to do inside of the webinar room.
These are the presenter's permissions within the event channel and webinar room. These include the following:
- Can manage webinar page: This enables presenters to make changes to your webinar/event session's dashboard, including its registration form, design, engagement features, advanced settings and more.
- Can Manage event sessions and settings. Cannot view analytics or attendee list: This enables presenters to make changes to your webinar/event session's dashboard, including all the above without the ability to view analytics or the attendee registration list.
- Can access Host Control Page in live webinar room: This allow presenters to adjust their audience's microphone and camera permissions—and activate/deactivate engagement features (polls, Q&As, chat, etc.)—during the live session.
- Enter as attendee: This allows presenters to also enter the event as an attendee without their presenter permissions. This is ideal for presenters who would like to enter webinars listed within a series, where they can register for webinars and enter as attendees while using their presenter links to enter as presenters.
- Enter Camera Monitor Mode: This allows presenters to enter the event as monitors of your sessions, where maximizing of cameras will not effect the overall attendee experience/view.
- Show this presenter on the live page: When this feature is active, the presenter's name, bio and contact information are listed on the webinar/event session's landing page, meaning that potential registrants can view your presenter's credentials before registering.
- Show this presenter in the live webinar room: When this feature is active, the presenter's name, bio and contact information are listed in the live webinar room in a side panel, meaning that attendees can view your presenter's credentials during the webinar or event.
- Enter webinar in off-stage mode: This allows a presenter to enter the webinar in off-stage mode.
- Show this presenter on Networking Center: This allows the presenter to be shown in the Networking Center.
Note: This is only applicable for Virtual/Hybrid events.
- Show chat icon for presenter in booth or session room: This allows presenters to have the chat icon shown to them within a booth or session room, so to chat with the attendees.
- Allow attendees to private chat with this presenter: This allows attendees to send a private message to a presenter either by clicking on their name in the public chat, or by finding them in the private chat panel.
- This setting is only to allow attendees to send private messages to presenters; other presenters, hosts and admins will always see all presenters and hosts and be able to private message each other.
Note: The private chat setting is defaulted ON. If turned OFF, only that presenter will lose the ability to private chat with attendees.
On the Manage Webinar dashboard, if the Private chat with presenters setting is turned OFF, this will override the Allow attendees to private chat with this presenter setting and no attendees will be able to send a private message to any presenter.
Once you have input all presenter information and set their specific permissions, Click Save Changes.
When finished, the Presenter will get an email notifying them they have been added as a Presenter to your event. This will include your event's information and their unique Presenter URL.
After adding your presenters, you are able to view the presenter's information and permissions at any point. If you'd like to edit their permissions, select Presenter Permissions just below the Access section.
Additionally, you can use the six dots in the upper right hand portion of the presenter card to rearrange presenters and put them in the order you'd like them to appear in your webinar.
Click Edit Presenter to update or change the presenter's information like bio or picture, Resend Presenter Invite to send their presenter invite email once more, or Create practice session to create a separate webinar practice session that simulates your event where presenters can practice.
Easily add presenters to newly created events by using dropdown menus to carry over their information from previous events or sessions. At the top of the page, you can use the dropdown menu to add a presenter from either your channel or a previous event. This way, carry over their information in a click of a button, and adjust their settings/permissions based on the event if needed. 
Additional Permissions for your Presenters
Presenters can be given or limited to certain permissions within your event or session. On the Manage Webinar or Manage Series dashboard, scroll down to the Presenter Permissions section.
Here, grant your presenter's access to the below. These permissions will reflect within the webinar room.
- Manage Slides - ability to move the slides
- Manage Videos - ability to start and stop videos
- Manage Offers - ability to create and start an offer
- Maximize Q&A - ability to maximize Q&A to the whole audience
- See Emoji Totals - ability to see how many of each emoji has been selected by the audience
- Show Q&A panel for presenters - enable/disable showing the Q&A panel for presenters
- Manage Screen Share - ability to share their screen
- Manage Audio - ability to turn on/off audio
- Manage Giveaways - ability to start and use the Giveaways feature
- Maximize Poll - ability to maximize Polls to the whole audience
- Pin Presenter camera to right of presentation - enable the presenter's camera to the right of the presentation or files
- Show audio only speaker avatars to admins - Enable this to show a camera box containing the presenter's letter avatar or picture when speaking in the webinar room, even if their camera is off