[Fla-facrlboard] Hopin Virtual Event Platform

[Alyssa Koclanes]

It was very informative and while the session answered my questions, it did
raise some concerns for me (costs, accessibility, lack of participant and
presenter familiarity with the platform). It definitely has some advantages
though over Zoom. And unless we want attendees to register twice, we would
have to use their payment system on Hopin which would increase the cost for
us.

It may be possible for us to register attendees ourselves in Hopin however,
so after they register and pay on the FACRL website we add them to the
event in Hopin but I will need to review the information on that some more.
I thought it was mentioned in the demo earlier.

Rachel, the Pro Account is actually $18,000 a year! So not an option!

Only issue with the sign language interpreter is that we would need three
of them, due to the concurrent sessions.

Zoom currently doesn't have closed captioning either, although I've heard
it may be an option soon.

Alyssa




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On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 1:17 PM Cooke, Rachel <rcooke at fgcu.edu> wrote:

> Yes, I found it to be a good platform.  I liked the buttons to easily join
> "coffee" networking groups and vendor groups.
>
> Unless we go Pro (which was $1,300 I think he said?), it sounds like we
> will have to use their registration system and pay the ticket fees.
>
> Maybe we can get a sign language interpreter?  That is what SWFLN does -
> they use Adobe Connect and the signing person is a 2nd presenter.  It works
> great.  I can ask Luly Castro at SWFLN for more info, if folks are
> interested.  Or we can do it if upon request.
>
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