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Registration and confirmation of your booking
1. Select the sessions you wish to attend
2. Complete all other details on the registration form and click 'Submit'
3. You will receive an email confirmation of your booking with a link to your event 'e-ticket' and instructions on how and when you can join the event
4. On the day of the event - You will receive a reminder email to join the event which will also contain the link to your event 'e-ticket'.
Using your 'e-ticket' on the day of the event and support during the event
Access your session links through your booking confirmation or event reminder emails
On your e-ticket, you will see the full list of all the individual sessions you have registered for, arranged in chronological order.
To join a session, simply find it on your e-ticket, click on the joining link and follow any of the additional joining instructions on the page. The link normally appears clickable 15 minutes before it starts.
On your e-ticket, you will also see additional entries on your e-ticket that are available to everyone to support you throughout the event. These are:
- Open Day 'Drop-in' sessions
- Virtual Open Day home page
Open Day 'Drop-in' Sessions
These are one-to-one text-chat sessions, open at different times during the event, to help you make the most of the event and we will do our best to answer any questions you have.
Please drop by if you have any general questions about:
- the event,
- postgraduate study in general or,
- basic technical questions
Virtual Open Day home page
This is a web page where we have curated essential web links, resources, and videos to complement the live sessions and help you make most of the day, providing the information we believe can help you make an informed decision about applying to – or accepting an offer from – the University of Edinburgh.
Participating in the sessions
Your live webinar sessions will be hosted on one of the following webinar platforms:
Camera and Microphone settings
There is no requirement for you to share your video camera image or audio with us during an event. Some sessions may allow for this feature, if you so choose, while others may simply allow you to communicate via text chat.
Getting to your next live session
If you have opened a new browser tab to participate in a session, please close that tab and return to your e-Ticket.
If you have closed this tab in your browser, you can retrieve it in the email we sent you on the day of the event.
Viewing closed captioning
Depending on the platform on which the webinar takes place, If live captions would be helpful for you, here are the available options:
There may be an option to turn on live captions and view a live caption display during live sessions simply by selecting the ‘CC’ button.
Where this option is not available, you may wish to use Google Chrome’s live captioning feature. We have included a brief video showing how to turn on this feature.
Video on how to enable Google Chrome live captions
As with all live captioning, it’s not 100% accurate but it is fairly reliable and accurate. Please note this is a tool offered through Google Chrome, not the University of Edinburgh.