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GUEST,mmarlow Zoom Tech Issues for singarounds/singer numbering (3) Tech: Zoom: Take a Number (queue) feature? 19 Oct 20


Zoom should have features to automate the management of a queue of speakers.
(Like the take a number machine at the DMV/bakery/etc.)
Assigning numbers and keeping track of who comes next would be easy
to automate.

This would make hosting a song circle easier. It would also be useful in lots of other meeting formats (manage people giving testimony, handling people with questions, handling speakers at a round-table, ...). So seems like a generally useful feature.

1) Have you looked for a zoom plugin to do this?
1b) Did you find one (or find that there isn't one)?

2) If not found - has anybody looked at the API to see if the hooks are there so such a thing could be created?

3) Is there another online meeting program that is suitable for song circles which has this feature? (I ask about zoom just because a
bunch of circles seem to use it. But there are lots of other meeting/chat/online jamming programs out there.)

I started looking at the plugin list, but a lot of the items there are described in vague buzzwords so it is hard to tell what they do.

A brief scan of the API seemed to be missing a lot of the functions I would expect to be there, but maybe I didn't dig deep enough.

Asking in case others had already explored these possibilities.

If nothing exists and the API won't support it, might be worth requesting zoom add such a feature.


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