New and improved features and fixed issues

Improvements

• When adding a webinar to a series, registration is enabled by default
  Webinar hosts now don't have to worry about losing registration data when adding a webinar to a series. Webinar registration is automatically enabled when you add the webinar to a series. If registration was already enabled for the webinar, the webinar registration will be synchronized with the series registration. This means that any registration data that was captured before the webinar was added to the series will be retained. However, new registration data will only be captured based on the data captured by the series.
• This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, you must open a ticket with the Cisco Cloud Services team.

• Cohost can start and stop a practice session
  Webinar co-hosts can now start and end a practice session. This is an attempt to improve collaboration and reduce the load on the host during the webinar.

Webinar and webcast experience.

• Participants can easily share the join link to a webinar in the webcast view
  Share the joining link to a webinar in the webcast view to make it easy for others to join. You can copy and paste the link from the webinar in Webcast View for others to use, or share a QR code that contains the link to the webinar in Webcast View.

• Registration is enabled by default when you add a webinar to a series
  Webinar hosts now don't have to worry about losing registration data when they add a webinar to a series.

• Cohost can start and stop a practice session
  Webinar co-hosts can now start and end a practice session. This is an attempt to improve collaboration and reduce the burden on the host during the webinar.

• Landing page after registration for webinars.
  Webinar hosts can now redirect their attendees to a landing page after they complete registration for the webinar.

Slido experience

• Slido versions are not dependent on the Webex upgrade cycle.

• The new design for Slido Q&A in Webex is now available to all Webex customers.

• Anyone can now turn on and try the improved Q&A experience.

Here is what has changed:

• A simplified, easy-to-navigate interface.

• Better flow of actions: We have focused on the most important actions that the user can perform.

• Improved discoverability and easier access to the most important functions such as moderation and participant responses.

• If you want to switch back to the old design, you can do so from the side menu.

Important Notes

Upcoming retirement of Site Administration management console (all sites to be managed using Control Hub)

• Webex Site Administration management console retired at end of calendar year 2023. Make sure that you update your site from a Site Administration managed site to a Control Hub managed site.

• Sites using required user profile fields or required tracking codes can update their sites sometime in the first half of 2023.

Updates to Webex Desktop Application (WDA)

• Webex Desktop Application (WDA) won’t automatically upgraded to Webex App in a VDI environment. To ensure the smoothest possible transition, we strongly recommend that you take the following actions before enabling video mesh ready meetings:

1. Manually remove WDA from your VDI server and deploy Webex App by following the Webex App deployment guidelines.
2. Deploy the Webex app VDI plugins that will work for message, calling, meetings, and webinars.