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This is the email that you used to register for the event. It is also the email that has been used for all communications about this event.

The process is not automatic. If you registered after June 1 as an auditor, your will not have access to the platform until July 1. 

Once the process is completed you will receive an email from info@ecineq.org with information on how to log in for the first time.

Please read REGISTER page for all information on registration.

Sessions can only be accessed through the LOG IN area. To log in, please click on the Log in button at the top of the homepage, using the email you used for your registration to the event. If you are not logged in and try to press the "Join Room" button, you will receive a denied access message.

Links to the sessions are not made public. To access the video-conference platforms to participate in the sessions, you must be logged in and you click on the "Join Room" button. 

This is not possible. Only people who are signed up to the ECINEQ Virtual 2021, and are logged in, can access the sessions.

The log in area is your access to the networking areas and scientific sessions, and it is where you can build your agenda. The only noticeable addition that you see in log in are the networking buttons (from Noticeboard across to Account Settings). You search the programme and presenters in the top navigational bar. The secondary navigational bar is informative, while the third is the networking. All the text on the particular page you are in appears when you scroll down.

Go to Full Programme, and click in the name, in the presenter  field, of the person you are looking for. This field is set in “auto-predict” so by clicking a number of letters of the person’s name you are looking for will bring up a list of results. Once you find the presenter's name, a list of connected sessions will come up. Please note that you can also use the alphabetical list on the Presenter's page too. 

Go to Full Programme and enter in the information you are looking for in the relevant field

You can also search by day, and then refine your search by title or type. Go to the Full Programme and click on the boxed numbers that appear above the networking bar. Always remember to click the UPDATE button to get the results.

In the Participants page, which is accessible only when you are logged in, you can see all the people who have registered to attend the event. These include both presenters and non-presenters. If you want to see the list of presenters only, please click on the PRESENTERS section at http://ecineq2021.org/presenters.

All times, by default, refer to BST (British Summer Time). The BST sign is visible in all areas of the programme. However, each participant can set its own time zone to a number of possibilities. To do this, please go to your setting cog wheel - the symbol between the mail and star symbols - which appears when you are logged in, scroll to local setting and choose the city in the country you are based.

Please note that the times displayed when you enter the ZOOM waiting rooms are by default in CEST (+1 on BST)

There are a number of ways to network. You can pin a note to the noticeboard to leave a general announcement (to leave one, please press the ADD button when you are inside the Noticeboard) area, send direct messages to one or a group of delegates, enter the coffee shop - LSE Coffee Corner - and have some conversations with your colleagues. 

As already communicated in emails sent over the past few weeks, we are using ZOOM as the default video conference platform. As already communicated, you are expected to enter the session 15 minutes before its scheduled start to do some testing and to meet with the chair and your co-presenters to discuss structure of session and how to handle Q&A. To enter your session, click on the JOIN ROOM button in the SESSION pages. You will link out to ZOOM. You will not receive any specific ZOOM link. Please click here for the technical info that was sent out in earlier emails.

We are using ZOOM as the default video conference platform. To enter your session, or any other session you want to attend, click on the JOIN ROOM button in the page about the session you want to attend (the button will only appear during the congress and when you are logged into the platform.  You will link out to ZOOM. You will not receive any specific ZOOM link. There will be a ZOOM “room manager” (students from ERASMUS University Rotterdam and University of Nottingham), who will be waiting to admit you to the session. Please note that there is a waiting room activated, and you may not be admitted to the session until the official scheduled start time. 

For the best user experience, we strongly recommend that you download / update ZOOM to the latest version. Please allow lots of time to do this – not just before your session is due to start.

A Prerequisite is that ZOOM desktop client is installed on your computer. If you have not got Zoom already installed on your device, please read here

For those of you unfamiliar with ZOOM, this ZOOM video is very helpful.

You can access ZOOM via your web browser. When you are linked across to ZOOM, please click on the option “If you cannot download or run the application, join from your browser.”

Go to “Full Programme”, scroll down the list of sessions and click to “Favourite” the sessions you want to attend. To view your agenda, please click the star button that appears when you are logged into the platform. Please note that the option to build your agenda is only actionable when you are in log in. 

•    We encourage you to keep your video on, even as a participant, as it makes the session more interacting. Please do turn it off, however, if there is background disturbance / privacy issues.

•    Please keep yourself on mute all times, unless you are asked to unmute by the Chair.

•    Please do ensure that your name appears as your full name, and not any nick-name. If you do not know how to rename yourself, please write a private chat to the room assistant, who can help you.

•    When there are slide presentations, for a more engaging viewing, you choose your “View Options” to “Side-by-Side” mode (for the slides) and then choose “Speaker” view (for the speakers).

•    If you want to ask a question, you use the “raise your hand” icon (which is found from the Participants’ section).

•    If you are in a meeting of over 20 people, please set you “Video Setting” to “Display up to 49 participants per screen in Gallery View” (set in your ZOOM video setting).

•    Remember the golden rule – Please be polite and respectful at all times.
 

There is a help desk that will be open from 10:00 BST until 17:00 BST on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. To ask for help, please click on the ORANGE CHAT ICON that appears at the bottom of the platform.