This document provides tips for hosting and participating in successful online events using eTwinning Live. For hosts, it recommends making other teachers co-hosts, uploading materials in advance, checking audio and video, coordinating discussions, and muting microphones when not speaking. For participants, it suggests checking audio and video, muting microphones when not speaking, using "raise hand" to request to speak, using symbols to agree or disagree, informing the host of any issues, and taking screenshots. It also lists tutorials available for creating events, preparing as a host, starting an event, using different layouts, polls, presentations, files, the whiteboard, web links, chat, notes, and Q&A functions.

1. How to ……
Instructions for successful eTwinning
live events!
By Rania Bekiri
Greek eTwinning ambassador

2. Important tips for hosts!
 If you meet few partners, make them ‘hosts’
too!
 Upload files and presentations in advance.
Don’t forget that if you created the event from
the eTwinning Live page, you can enter the
room 24 hours prior to the event.
 Don’t forget to check your sound and camera!
 Coordinate the meeting by asking your
colleagues to speak in turns or by asking
whoever has the ‘hand’ up!
 Turn off your microphone when you don’t
speak.
 Take screenshots of the whole event (if it is
about a project)!

3. Important tips for participants!
 Check your sound and camera!
 Keep your microphone mute when you
don’t speak.
 ‘Raise the hand’ when you want to
speak.
 Use the symbols to agree, disagree
etc.
 Inform the host in the chat if there is a
problem.
 Take screenshots of the whole event
(if it is about a project).

4. How to create an online event
‘How to create an online event’ tutorial
‘Can I create an event with
my partners? How should I
do it?’

5. Before an online event as a host!
‘Preparing for an event’ Tutorial
‘Is there anything I
should do as a host
before the beginning
of an event?’

6. Beginning an online event
‘Beginning an event’
tutorial
‘How can I check my
sound? Does my
microphone work? What
about my camera?’

7. Layouts in an online event
Layouts tutorial
‘Which layout should
we choose for the
purposes of our
online meeting?’

8. Polls in an online event
Polls tutorial
‘How can I create a poll
during an event? What
type is this poll?’

9. Presentations in online events
Presentations
tutorial
‘How can I show my
partners a PowerPoint
presentation?’

10. Files in online events
Files tutorial
‘How can I
upload a file and
share it with my
partners?’

11. Whiteboard in online events
‘How can I use
the whiteboard?
Can I draw there?
Can I write?’
Whiteboard tutorial

12. Web links in online events
Web links tutorial
‘How can I send my partners
a link? How many links will I
need to share with them? Can
I do it easily?’

13. Chat in online events
Chat tutorial
‘How can I comment or
ask a question during an
event? How can I show
that I agree or disagree?’

14. Notes in online events
Notes tutorial
Can all the partners in a
meeting write down their
decisions? Can the
pupils write something
together while
speaking?’

15. Q & A in online events
Q & A tutorial
‘Can we collect the
participants’
questions?’