Randomly Select an Active Participant

[skeller]

Is there a way to randomly select an active participant during a live Zoom meeting? I would like to use this to randomly select students during class but also to hold live raffles during parent/community meetings.

Thanks for the help!

Seth 

[RN]

Hi @skeller welcome to the community! Do you mind elaborating on the functionality you're looking for by randomly selecting an active participant? Active Speaker View is a video layout option during a meeting that detects who is actively speaking into the microphone when it is unmuted.

[Zornitsa13]

This is when you have a conversational meeting and want all participants to speak up. If I understand correctly one use case is for when a professor wants his/her students to answer questions and doesn't want the same person to answer all questions.

My personal scenario is similar - during weekly calls we go through different topics and I need different people to go through the topics, not the same ones.

[RN]

Hi @Zornitsa13 gotcha - thank you for clarifying further.

As the host, depending on how you are interacting with your participants in the meeting you could leverage 'spotlighting' for everyone and the raise-hand feature.

If there is more than one participant raising their hand when the professor asks the question and calls out to use the 'raise-hand' feature, you could leverage 'spotlighting' the participant to answer the question.

If none of your participants raise their hands, you could simply spotlight and call on a participant at random. There are a couple of workarounds - just one with the features of spotlighting and raising hands.

You could also use polling for anonymous voting before answering the question, and then as the professor, call out to a participant in the meeting to possibly further clarify why this is right or wrong. Just throwing ideas around 🙂

[mattrsullivan]

I'd like to choose a random winner from current attendees. Is that a feature available to me?

[ColterJ]

This would be so helpful

[kellydonahuepir]

We use it for training it would help people stay on their toes!

[ColterJ]

Same!

[Luceiia]

I need this functionality as well.