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Moderate the room

The control room is where questions become an agenda. It is open only to moderators, and it runs alongside the meeting.

Sorting is not silencing

Participants never see a question marked rejected. A question you set aside stays in the record of the meeting; it simply does not go to the floor.

Order in public

The queue the room sees is the queue you are working from. If a question is coming up, the person who asked it can tell.

One theme at a time

Topics let the meeting finish an argument before starting the next one. Most of the value of moderation is in the grouping, not the filtering.

The queue, over the call

Open it from the town hall page with the Queue button under the video. It opens as a panel on top of the meeting: the review list and the running order in one place, with the call still playing behind it. Closing the panel puts you straight back on the video — you never left it.

Illustration of a live SpeakUp town hall page: a city planner speaks in the main video with six participant tiles beneath, a red Live marker and a count of people here at the top right, a green 'Being asked now' panel under the video, and the question column on the right with its tabs, filters and topic chips.
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The SpeakUp control room: the review list and the ordered Up next queue on the left, topics on the right.
Cedar Hollow Civic Assembly — fictional demonstration data.

Putting a question on the floor

When a question is asked aloud, mark it as being asked. The whole room's page updates: the question appears directly under the video on everyone's screen, and it enters the permanent record of the meeting. The person who asked it can still remove their name afterwards.

The participant view during a live school budget hearing: the video call on the left with the question being asked in the green panel beneath it, and the questions column on the right showing the Asked filter.
Harbor Point School Board — fictional demonstration data.

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It helps to know what the other side of the screen looks like.

Participant guide