When you step onto a Spotlight tile, you broadcast your voice and video to everyone in the current Room. Spotlight tiles are perfect for hosting meetings or making announcements.
Spotlight performance may vary based on your team's network connections, system settings, and devices. The following recommendations are loose guidelines to help you have the best experience:
- If you're sharing your screen, Spotlight works best for up to 150 people
- If you're sharing a combination of audio and video, Spotlight works best for up to 250 people
- If you're sharing audio only, Spotlight works for up to 500 people
Add Spotlight Tile
In the Mapmaker, select Tile Effects in the Top Nav Menu. In the Tile Effects panel, select Spotlight. All Spawn tiles are highlighted in orange. If it is not already active, select Stamp in the Left Nav Menu.
In our templates, we add a megaphone image to indicate the Spotlight tile. To add this indicator, select Objects in the Top Nav Menu, then select More Objects in the right panel to open the Object Picker. Search for "spotlight." Select the color you prefer, then place the indicator on top of the spotlight tile.
Spotlight Features
- The spotlight broadcasts to everyone in the Room (not to the entire Space), even if they are in private areas.
- Spotlight tiles are often indicated by an orange megaphone.
- You know who's in the spotlight (including yourself) by the orange megaphone label on the speaker's video or screen share.
- When you're in the spotlight, you will only be able to hear people within 5 tiles of you (but you can see everyone's video).
- To spotlight more than one person:
- add more than one spotlight tile, OR
- use ghost mode (Ctrl/⌘+G) to step onto the spotlight tile while someone else is on it, OR
- manually spotlight someone
- If you want to host multiple meetings at the same time in a Space and use spotlight tiles for the speakers, make sure each meeting and spotlight tile is in a separate Room.
- Tip: You can spotlight up to 20 people at a time in a Room, but generally the fewer you spotlight, the better.
- The Spotlight feature should only be used in Rooms with under 100 people.
- See this message? "Sharing A/V with too many people. Try turning off your video or screen." The speaker can reach more participants by turning off their own video, audio, screenshare, or some combination thereof.
Bonus Tips
If you'd like to host a Q&A session and provide an easy way for members of the audience to ask a question, add additional Spotlight tiles to the Map. You can add standing mics or podiums as additional visual indicators.
Admins and Mods can also manually spotlight anyone. Select a name from the Participants list, and from their info card, select Spotlight.
Tip: Read our Spotlighting best practices article for more info on spotlight tiles.
Events Spaces let Admins easily spotlight themselves from the toolbar. Just select Spotlight in the toolbar and your audio and video will be broadcasted to everyone in the Room. Select the button again to unspotlight yourself.
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