At Grip, we’re committed to making participants get more involved in your event and foster a more interactive and engaging experience. As such, event organizers can enable different URL links on the 'Sessions' section in the dashboard to take their event to the next level!
In this article, we'll cover the different links that can be enabled and how participants can interact with them on both web and mobile:
- Session Content URL
- Website URL
- Polling and Q&A URL
- Livestream URL
- Video Recording URL
- Audience Interaction Embed URL
Session Content URL
Event organizers can share any session-related content on external pages by enabling the 'Session Content URL' in the dashboard. This will appear to participants as a 'Get Session Content' button on both web and mobile.
On web:
On mobile:
Website URL
You can share a link to an external website by enabling the 'Website URL' in the dashboard.
On web: this will appear to participants as an 'Open Session Link' button.
On mobile: participants will see the link to the website
Polling and Q&A URL
You can enable the 'Polling and Q&A URL' in the dashboard to link to any third-party site if you wish to engage with viewers during a session. But note that the content will open in a new tab. This will appear to participants as a 'Polling and Q&A' button on both web and mobile.
On web:
On mobile:
Livestream URL
Enable the 'Livestream URL' on the dashboard so that event participants can watch a live session.
On web, there are two ways this can be displayed to viewers:
1. Embedded in the session page
Grip allows event organizers to embed livestream sessions in the platform. This means that participants will be able to attend and watch a session inside Grip without being directed to a third-party site, which in this case would be the livestream provider (e.g Youtube).
2. External Link
You can also re-direct viewers to an external Link (e.g Youtube) to watch your livestream session.
In this case, the livestream will not be shown on the session and participants will have to click on the 'Watch Livestream' button that links to an external page.
On mobile: Whether the livestream is embedded or links to an external page, participants will see a 'Watch livestream' button that links to the session
Video Recording URL
Enabling the 'Video Recording URL' allows organizers to share recorded sessions after the livestream is finished.
On web, there are two ways this can be displayed to viewers:
1. Embedded in the session page
Grip allows event organizers to embed recorded sessions in the platform. This means that participants will be able watch the recording inside Grip without being directed to a third-party site, which in this case would be the livestream provider (e.g Youtube).
2. External Link
You can also re-direct viewers to an external Link (e.g Youtube) to watch your recorded session.
In this case, the livestream will not be shown on the session and participants will have to click on the 'Watch Livestream' button that links to an external page.
On mobile: Whether the recording is embedded or links to an external page, the attendee will see a 'Watch Session Recording' button that links to the session
Audience Interaction Embed URL
This allows you to add a link which is then embedded into the sidebar on the right of the session details page, visible for your attendees while they watch a session.
This functionality is only available on web:
This can be used to allow Event Organizers to load interactive content from a third-party site into Grip, which could give attendees the option to take part in a live poll, or other audience interaction tool. You will also need to specify a name for your link, which will appear to your viewers when they watch the session.
Note that you have the option to “personalize” the Audience Interaction Embed URL, which means that you can create a URL that is slightly different depending on the user that loads it. This works in the same way as the Personalised URL Navigation Item option, where you can specify a part of the URL to be dynamic. The example below uses a Custom Profile Field (sent as part of registration) to load each user’s email address into the URL, in order to have the user log into a Q&A web tool automatically.