How to setup presentation for a session in Zoho Backstage

Session Materials

As the event day draws near, offer speakers the features provided by Zoho Backstage to create, rehearse, and deliver sessions confidently.

Manage session material

Add materials for your session like presentations at any time and make your sessions engaging. Session materials can be projected for all attendees to see so that they can follow what is being said during the session.


  1. Go to Manage > Sessions from the dock

  2. Click the Materials link associated with a session. The Materials tab will display inside the session details view.

  3. Click the Add Material button. The Choose Material dialog box will display.
  4. Click the area in the middle of the dialog box to open your files from your local system.
    Note: Alternatively click the Pick from Zoho Workdrive link to select files from the cloud.
  5. Select a session material to upload it. The Choose Material dialog box will display with your uploaded file.
  6. Click on the file and click the Select button.
Note: Sessions can also be uploaded in the Content Library tab in the Manage Dashboard of the Event Console.
Associating presentations to your sessions is a paid feature enabled based on your subscription plan.

View and edit session material

You can easily make changes to session material, like adding a new slide or changing the layout of a presentation.



  1. Go to Manage > Sessions from the dock

  2. Click the Materials link associated with a session. The Materials tab will display.
  3. Hover over the material thumbnail and click the View icon to view and edit the material.

Download session material 

If speakers need to make offline changes to the existing content in their session materials, they can easily download to edit them.
 


  1. Go to Manage > Sessions from the dock

  2. Click the Materials link associated with your session. The Materials tab will open.
  3. Hover over the presentation thumbnail and click the Download icon.
Note: You can also download session material from the Content Library tab in the Manage Dashboard.

Delete session material

Remove session material that isn't required for a session without deleting it permanently from the Content Library.
 


  1. Go to Manage > Sessions from the dock

  2. Click the Materials link associated with a session. The Materials tab will display.
  3. Hover over the material thumbnail associated with your session and click the Delete icon. The material can still be accessed from the Presentation Library or associated with another session.
Note: To remove session materials permanently, go to the Presentation Library in the Content Library and delete them.

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