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Please refer to the readme for Getting Started instructions.
Go to the start page of your Strive installation and click on Start new conference. A dialog will pop up that allows you to configure some settings. The settings can always be changed after creating the conference! Please refer to the section below to understand the meaning of the most important settings. After you have configured your conference, just click on Create and the url for your conference will be shown. You can share that url with others so they can join the conference too.
A room is an abstraction for a group of participants that can share audio and video together and see the same layout. In Strive, everyone in the same room should see and hear the exact same as everyone else.
In Strive, we define a scene as a specific layout showing information to a specific audience. Currently, a scene is dependent on the current room. Every participant of this room sees the same scene and depending on the permissions, a participant can change the scene for everyone (by default in the master room this is only possible for moderators). Examples of a scene are whiteboards, polls, screen share, grid, etc.
In the Grid scene, all participants are shown in tiles like in Zoom. The second default scene is Active Speaker, where one participant (the one currently speaking) is highlighted for everyone and a few other participants are displayed below. Some features can create scenes, for example when you create a new whiteboard, a new scene is added.
At the scene control in the bottom left part, the scene can be changed. Also, there are different scene selection modes. Autonmous displays the default scene of the conference or, if available, a screen share etc. (so you don't have to manually switch scenes if you begin sharing your screen). Talking Stick is another mode useful for automatic selection depending on participants. If you select a scene manually, the one from the selection mode is overwritten. You can give back control to the selection mode by clicking on Remove overwrite.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Start | The start time of the conference that will be shown to participants. Please note that the conference must always be opened manually by a moderator |
| Schedule | Relative to the start time, you can create a schedule for the conference. Again, this is only for display purposes. The expected expression is a cron string. |
| Chat | Configure options for the chat. First, you can enable or disable chat special chat rooms (all chat as a single chat for all rooms, room chat as a chat for a specific room and private chat). You can also disable the chat for the master room (which is the default room if you create no new rooms). Furthermore, you can disable if it should be shown to everyone who is currently typing. |
| Scenes | Configure scene options for the conference. Default scene is the scene automatically selected by the Autonmous mode. Scene layout defines the layout of the conference, e. g. if participant tiles should be displayed above every scene or just chips with the names of participants. You can also select a separate layout if screensharing is active. |
Add moderators to the conference. As the id system is currently a bit confusing, just wait until the participants joined the conference, you can they add them in the settings.
Configure fine grained permissions for different groups. The names of the permissions hould be relativly self descriptive. Strive works with a key-value permission system where every participant inherits his permissions from multiple groups, which are ordered. A permission from a group above will always overwrite permissions from the group below. To get an idea of this system, just click on the three dots at the top-right corner and on Show my Permissions. You will see the groups you belong to and whether the permission is overwritten or in effect.
CONFERENCE_DEFAULT is defined in the settings.json of your Strive installation. CONFERENCE is defined in the permissions section of your conference, it's the All group.
MODERATOR_DEFAULT is again defined in settings.json of your Strive installation, while MODERATOR is defined in the permissions section of your conference, it's the Moderator group.
If one belongs to a breakout room, the breakout room group will be added to the participant (so they can screen share on their own etc.). These permissions can be changed in the Breakout Room group in the permissions section.
After a moderator opened the conference, all waiting participants (and all particiants that will join) are added to the master room of the conference. You can see the media controls (active microphone, webcam and screen) at the bottom part of your browser. It will automatically be hidden after a few seconds and it will reappear after moving the cursor.
You can take actions using the Actions button on the bottom left. The features should be self descriptive.