Agenda management - Content sub-tab

Agenda Management - An introduction

Every event on the Laia platform consists of key General Settings and prerequisite Agenda elements before it can be deployed for use by your audience. You begin in the General Settings tab by setting up the event title, start and end days/times and a web domain link so attendees can access the homepage. 

Next, you must set up other preliminary elements of any event, such as an agenda (containing the days, times and locations of the sessions), presenters/speakers and session details. The "Agenda" tab on the left navigation menu allows you to curate all aspects of your event programming.

Since your agenda will need the prerequisite details such as days/times, stage locations, presenters and session details, we recommend you setup your Agenda content in the following order to have these elements ready in advance so they can be inserted into the required fields when customizing your event’s programming details:

• Event Days - You begin by adding days to your agenda. 
• Stages & Slido -  Next you add stage details indicating where your sessions will be held. You also add your Slido URLs here as well.
• Presenter information - Continuing on you add your presenter details including names, avatars, bios etc.
• Content - Finally you add and curate your session content

Agenda Management STEP 4: Content sub-tab (Agenda Items – Sessions / Panels / Breaks)

Now that you have completed steps 1 thru 3 and have all the key prerequisites for an event such as days, stage locations, and presenter details you can finalize your event with agenda items and session details.  Go to the "Content" sub-tab and then continue by adding a new agenda item.  You can also update an existing agenda item by clicking on the specific item and modifying it in the form.

Laia gives you flexibility to create multiple agenda items including sessions, panels or breaks.

Selecting an agenda item

By clicking on the "Add agenda item" button, you have three options to choose from:

• Session (speaker's presentation on a specific topic)
• Panel (presentation/panel discussion by several speakers)
• Break (break between agenda items)

To set up an agenda item you can customize general settings such as Agenda Title,Stage, Time. You can also select the presenters and add content such as a unique cover image, streams link, Slido links or accompanying files such as PDFs or digital pamphlets.

Note: Since the agenda form uses the predefined days, stages and presenters you created earlier you must go through steps 1 thru 3 in order to see these options in the appropriate drop down selection list.

For Session and Panel, fill in the details below:

• Settings sub-tab

Fill in the details, paying special attention to the ones marked with a red asterisk because they are required fields and your agenda will not be validated without them.

• Presenters

You can choose presenters from your pre-defined list that you created in the earlier step.

• Content sub-tab

Finally, you can add session specific content such as cover images, Slido links, video streams or accompanying files.

For Break, fill in the details below: