Background Noise During Session

We had a recent training where because we could not get everyone to enter their pin we had unbearable background noise that caused the training session to be cancelled. It does not appear that we can mute anyone until they have joined the training and entered their pin. We may be going to only recorded trainings if we cannot resolve this issue. Any suggestions?

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KateG

Hi @AMTADMIN

Thanks for additional details and testing out on your end.

Organizers can mute callers that dial in, do not join through the software and enter a PIN, they are listed as Caller 01, Caller 02, etc. If it's grayed out for an organizer, it should mean that they are already muted, so I don't think the issue was coming from them.

I can understand if multiple people came in unmuted it would cause a lot of noise that may be hard to pinpoint. Did you try Mute Everybody in your Settings to mute all that entered, and unchecked Allow Everybody to unmute?

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KateG

Hi @AMTADMIN

Thanks for additional details and testing out on your end.

AMTADMIN

Thank you for responding. I did a test with just one person today and they did not enter their PIN and you are correct. I could mute her. But, we had a very large number on the previous training and the phone symbol for some was not green or accessible but was greyed out. We believe those were our "problem children." We sent them a PIN but still could not get them so we could mute them. On a previous training we actually asked a couple of people to disconnect because they were unable to figure out how to enter their pin or believed they had entered it but we could not see that we had access to mute their phone. On my test today, when my test attendee was unmuted we had horrible echoing like we did during our training session. Once she was muted it was clear.

KateG

Hi @AMTADMIN ,

Welcome to the GoTo Community,

I've tried to replicate your experience by scheduling a Training, then entering with a phone using a PIN and not entering a PIN. As the organizer, I had the option to mute for both instances.

If they don't enter the PIN you should see them listed as a Caller, with the option to mute or unmute. Can you tell me what you saw?