Feature request: Automatic attendee check-in for virtual(online) event

[sukso96100]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Hello, I organized a virtual event using eventyay number of weeks ago. I could see some statics about registration on dashboard and attendee details of course. But after the event, I couldn't find any data about attendees who actually checked-in for the virtual event. There were manual check-in feature of course, But we didn't use that because it was virtual event: On virtual event, People join event anytime they want during event hours, and organizers can't check that everytime.

To gather some data for check-in attendees, I researched for possible alternative sources that I was look for.
And I found, BBB raw recording contains meeting participant list. So I requested for that data on eventyay support channel. But It was refused for privacy and lack of human resource reason (which is totally understandable)

Fortunately, As we used YouTube playback for playing pre-recorded session. I could get some insights with YouTube's analytics tool. But What if there were only live sessions? Organizers won't be able to get data for checked-in attendees.

It is important to see how many of the registrants actually participate. Because the number of registrations isn't the only factor that determines the scale and success of an event. The same goes for online events.

I think this solution might solve problem for future virtual event organizers who uses eventyay.

Describe the solution you'd like
A simple automatic attendee check-in for virtual event.
If attendee clicks "Join live event" during event hours, Not just bring them to virtual venue, but also automatically mark them as "Checked-in" on eventyay.

[mariobehling]

Yes, this is definitely a feature we need. We could implement this first in the backend. Overall we need to see this separately from BBB though as we support different video channels and some event would rather use the integrated Youtube, Jitsi or another channel.

Nevertheless we have an overlay over BBB and therefore the eventyay website is open. Therefore we can track when a user is active and has the event video page open.

Which data could we track?

• When a user "Joins the live event"
• Which channels a user uses (when the user enters, when the user leaves)
• When the user leaves the event
• How long the user stays in the event
• Which days the user joins

We can look at other solutions how they show this kind of data visually. We probably need to implement a dedicated "Analytics" page for events or show it on the dashboard.

The question is when can we implement this? As ember.js has a number of bugs we are often busy fixing things that previously worked. We probably will implement this therefore in the new version of the frontend we will be working on over upcoming months using ReactJS.

Except for finalizing existing features this means we have a kind of feature freeze for now. We are still implementing features for paid customers, but I would say it is difficult otherwise. The challenge is that the number of people who know EmberJS is limited. I expect a big increase in development speed once we have the basic service up and running in ReactJS as the number of potential developers who we can work with is huge.

[mariobehling]

Closing this issue in favor of this issue here fossasia/open-event-server#9065 which is a simplification of this issue.