 Good morning and welcome to this pre-conference participant orientation session. My name is Fiona and I'm joining you here from ALT and I'm here to take you through how to get the best out of joining us at the conference this year. So thank you all for joining us and a very warm welcome to you. We are very excited to be in the conference week for 2022 for ALT already. We've started already with our pre-conference sessions. They kicked off last week and then again today and our first social session starts this evening as well. So we've got the open mic night with Pete McDonald that starts tonight at 5pm and then of course the big day is tomorrow so the first day of the conference tomorrow Tuesday the 6th and that runs through until Thursday the 8th. So we're very excited to be here finally and it's really good to be welcoming people back in person as well as online this year. As part of the conference we also have our award ceremony which is happening tomorrow evening so if you are in Manchester please do come along and join us for the award ceremony and our ITN launch for our digital transformation program is also happening on Wednesday evening so again if you are joining us in person do come along for those. So today I'll take you through a brief tour of our website and talk to you about how to get the best of joining us whether it be online or in person. So firstly I'd like to thank all of our sponsors and exhibitors as well as our partners for joining us again this year some new and some returning sponsors and exhibitors and we'd like to say a big thank you to all of them. They will be all in person at the conference so if you are joining us in Manchester do go along to the exhibition hall where you can say hi to our our sponsors and exhibitors and talk to them. You can also talk to them via our Discord channel if you are attending online only and you should have received your joining instructions last week which has got full details on our Discord channel and we have a dedicated sponsors section for the Discord channel so you can talk directly to them so you won't miss out even though you're not attending in person you can still speak to our sponsors and exhibitors. So today I will take you through our website and a bit about where you can find certain things and also if you have any questions I'm just going to put up some ways that you can share our questions so please do post on our Jamboard or you can post on our YouTube live chat that's being monitored whilst we stream so do ask us any questions that you have anything you'd like to know or anything we've missed then please do um put your questions in the box and we will get back to you. So when you attend the conference from tomorrow until Thursday you can use our interactive program to navigate your way around everything that you need to access. So there's a QR code you can see now you can scan that QR code to go straight to our interactive program whether you are attending online or in person and this takes you through to the full session abstracts as well as access to the online session recordings as well so you can access everything direct through there and if you are attending in person in Manchester there's also a room finder so you can use your room finder to navigate around the different rooms and in the main hall we are having sessions take place across the first, second and third floors as well as the main hall so you can use the room finder to navigate around there. I'd also like to mention Vvox at this point so Vvox are supporting us by providing live interaction for our conference both in person and online so Vvox in Manchester will be helping us with our Q&A sessions during our seminars and also online they'll be helping us with Q&As in our Discord channel social space so do look out for them and if you are a speaker you do get complimentary Vvox pro plan from the art conference so do go and see them about that if you'd like to take them up. Okay now I'm going to take you through to the conference website so there's lots of handy information on the website that you can use to get the best out of attending this week so I'm just going to share my screen with you now and you can see I'm on the homepage of the website so from here there's lots of useful things that I can show you hopefully you've been here before to register so you might be familiar with the website already but if not you can see on the tab here you can see some guidance for participants so that's all the information that you've received in your joining instructions it's all handily there if you would like to see it for anything that you need to find there's also a really useful page on staying safe at alt C so obviously COVID-19 is still around and we are taking any precautions that we can to keep everyone safe at the conference this week so we've got a number of measures in place so please do read through this when you get a chance and do take our advice if you can and if you're traveling from outside of the UK do please monitor your own country's guidance on travel and the venue at the University of Manchester do have their own venue statement on COVID-19 and their own safety measures so again you can read that here if you'd like to and we are asking delegates to notify us if they do test positive COVID within seven days of the event also here on the website you can see our program so you can see full information on the co-chairs the keynote speakers and our social program here so again as I said earlier there is the pre-conference open mic night which is happening at 5 p.m this evening with Pip and my Donald so do attend that if you'd like to get involved and then we've got the awards happening on Tuesday evening and the ITN launch on Wednesday evening and we round the week off with our Thursday night show which is online from six o'clock on Thursday you can also see some information on the FEM EdTech quilt which is going to be out c22 which we've been very excited about and you can see some more information on the awards as well so we've got five new categories for the awards this year so we're looking forward to our first ceremony for a few years in person and we're looking forward to giving out some awards for our new categories also on this website on the help and more info page you've got some details on tips for online participation so if you are joining us online then there's some really useful information on here about how to best plan your time and how to plan around the interactive program so do take a look at that when you get chance we've also got our code of conduct and our netiquette pages so they again are quite useful and the alt shop so if you want any alt c22 branded merchandise then do visit the alt shop and there are lots of things you can buy from jumpers to mugs and coasters and all sorts of other things so do have a look on there if you haven't already got your travel information sorted then this page is very useful so it's got all the details about the venue and how to access the venue and our accommodation link is here hopefully if you're attending in person then you've already got accommodation sorted but if you don't then please do have a look on here we've got some recommendations for you so please do visit the website and make the most of everything that we've got on there for you hopefully it will make your conference better no matter whether it's online or in person there's plenty of things to help you on that now I'm going to show you our interactive program so you should have had this the link via the joining instructions you received on Friday for this and this is going to help you navigate around during the conference so you can see we've got all the sessions here they're color coded with online in person and both online and in person so you can see exactly what you want to attend and you can change the day at the top here and if you click on on a session then there's a watch button on the bottom left hand side so it will either say watch or join depending on if it's pre-recorded or live and you'll be able to join at the time that the session is scheduled for then the in person sessions you can see the venue at the bottom so it will tell you exactly which room it's in and then if you are attending in person then you can use the room finder which we talked about earlier to find your room so the room numbers are here at the bottom and if you need any help there's a help section here that will take you straight to our help pages we also have our social space so our discord channel is where we're using what we're using for all of our social comms so there's a number of things you can do on our discord channel you can speak to us via our help desk so you'll see that channel on there and when you go on the link and you can speak to us there so our help desk is manned by the lovely Jane and she'll be able to help you with any questions that you have so do get in touch if you need any help at all you can also use the channel to chat with other delegates so there's lots of different channels in there which you can use there's an introductions channel so you can meet people there's a hallway channel for for general chit chat and there's things like the cats and dogs channel so that one um you can share your pictures of your animals that are attending with you online you can also participate in the live q and a sessions for pre-recorded sessions so any of our pre-recorded sessions if you log on to the social space at the start we are taking any questions on the social space and they will be answered live during the pre-recorded session and as i said earlier you can also meet our exhibitors and sponsors by going to the channel specific for them so on the right hand side you can see just here there's a exhibition hall and that's got our exhibitors and sponsors for you to talk to and if you've never used discord before there is a guide which you can go straight to that's from our website so pop on to our website and it links straight to the discord beginner's guide if you've not used it before so all the recordings of our sessions will be available after the sessions have finished and then once the conference has finished they will be openly accessible for everyone after the event if you'd like to familiarize yourself as well with our netiquette and code of conduct then they are on our website as i showed you earlier and on this slide you can just see a few ways to help you enjoy the conference further so there is a hashtag which is alt C 22 and you can use that to connect with other delegates and ourselves on twitter so if you haven't already found the alt twitter handle it is at a underscore l underscore t and you can find us there and use the hashtag alt C 22 so do join in on the discussion on twitter with that hashtag also do join the discord social space which is on your joining instructions link you can also visit our help pages there's a link here on the screen that you can see now i'll post that in the chat shortly and there's the help desk email address so we are monitoring our email address as usual which is helpdesk at alt dot ac dot uk so do email us if you've got any questions at all as well so if you have any questions that you'd like to ask now do feel free um you can post them in our youtube live chat and we'll answer them now or you can also post them on our jam board and we can get back to you and if you don't post them right away so do let us know if you've got any questions at all i'll be i'll be waiting around for the next five minutes we'll say for some questions if any are coming in okay thank you very much