- Justify your facilitations style based on the objective of the session
- Provide in advance how attendees can engage with the format. This can be done in pre-session communications
- If you are running Q+A provide attendees with a sli.do code or an avenue to participate
- Teams Chat has features such as @ people and high alert messages to highlight key issues to attendees
- Please be on mute and clap when we presenters finish
- You can also include follow ups after the session e.g slides being made available or a live Q+A thread
As a team, you may need to conversate together. Creating a sperate chat, can help correspond important issues
- Ensure that attendees and presenters how they can access live captioning
- Ahead of session always ask attendees and presenter for any accessibility requirements.
- In general presentation slides should pass through accessibility checkers (e. Microsofts) or be designed with accessibility requirements in mind.
To support colleagues with accessibility needs, consider:
- Providing an audio-visual aid to slides
- Sending slides in advance
- Having a scribe for the person
- Doing a screen reader walkthrough or providing instructions on how to
- If you are facilitating in a small reading group or breakout rooms check out DataKind UK’s Sample facilitation guide
- If you want to centre relationality and trust check out Liberating structures
- If you enjoy design thinking, you could use aspects of Google Design Sprints
Eventrbite
Sli.do
Breakout Rooms