Meeting observers feature enables secure, discreet access for trusted humans
Ovida's Meeting Observer feature grants trusted trainers, mentors, or coaches secure, controlled access to meetings.
How it works
A Meeting Observer can:
Join a live meeting.
Observers join unobtrusively, with their camera off and their microphone muted, enabling the 1:1 meeting to proceed without interruption, or the sense of "being watched". Meeting participants will be notified when an observer joins or leaves a meeting. This is particularly useful for trainers looking to switch seamlessly between concurrent meeting rooms where students are practicing, without disrupting the flow of the meetings.
An observer can elect to "go live" at any time, activating their microphone and camera to give "in the moment" feedback. Once complete, they can revert back to silent mode.
Observers camera and microphone are not recorded when they go live, and the recording of the meeting participants pauses. This means that the integrity of the 1:1 meeting recording and transcripts are preserved, unlike the process with commercial video platforms, where the third party's interjections are recorded, disrupting the recording and the transcripts.
Access the Meeting Review page and give feedback
A Meeting Observer can access all of the Meeting Host's metrics and analytics in the Meeting Review page, can create and comment on moments, and give feedback in the Feedback tab.
What Meeting Observers can and cannot do
There is no limit on the number of Meeting Observers in a meeting
Meeting Observers cannot add other Meeting Observers to a meeting
Both meeting participants will be notified when a Meeting Observer is added to a meeting
Meeting Observers cannot download meeting records.
Meeting Observers can be added or removed by the Meeting Host or a Team Owner or Team Admin.
A Meeting Observer is added to only one meeting at a time.