Our main Congress sessions will be held on Zoom, which is an easy to use video conferencing platform. Zoom works on phones, tablets and laptops/PCs so we hope it is accessible for everyone. If you haven't used Zoom before, please take a minute to download it before the conference.

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Best practice for attending Zoom conference sessions

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• Please aim to sign in for each session a few minutes before it starts to enable us to start promptly. You will be in a 'waiting room' until the host is ready to start the session, when they will admit you into the meeting.
• All sessions will be set to the default of participants' microphones being muted on arrival. Please keep your microphone muted throughout sessions to avoid background noise, unless directed otherwise to participate in any interactive sessions.

• You're welcome to leave your camera turned on if you would like to - it's good to see each other's faces!

• You can switch between 'gallery view' (which shows all participants at once) and 'speaker view' (which shows just the person currently speaking). You may find it helpful to switch which view you are using depending on the type of session.

• For sessions that include Q&A, you will be able to use the chat box function to ask questions. Questions will then be asked by the session host.

• Please do not make your own recording of any conference sessions. We will be recording some sessions (subject to agreement of the speakers) and will make these available to attendees for one month following the conference.

• If you are concerned about the security of Zoom, you can access meetings via your web browser rather than downloading the app onto your device, although some features may be limited.

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If you have any questions or need any help please email techne@rhul.ac.uk.

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Please note the following privacy points in relation to our use of Zoom for this online conference.

• We will be making recordings of some of the conference sessions. We will only record 'speaker view' with shared screen/powerpoint. You will be informed at the start of each session that it is being recorded.

• To avoid accidentally appearing on the recording, please keep your microphone turned off until the interactive part of each session. We won't record any interacive/discussion parts of sessions.

• Recordings will only be shared with those registered for the Congress/other Techne students who weren’t able to attend at the time.

• We will only keep the recordings for 1 month after the Congress, then they will be deleted.

• You can view Zoom’s user privacy policy here.