ENGAGE
  • The ENGAGE Platform
  • Getting started
    • Installing ENGAGE
      • Installing ENGAGE on a Meta Quest
      • Installing ENGAGE on Microsoft Windows
      • Installing ENGAGE on macOS
      • Installing ENGAGE on Android phones and tablets, iPhones, and iPads
      • Installing ENGAGE on other devices
    • Creating an account
      • Account types
      • Creating an account in the web manager
      • Creating an account in the ENGAGE app
      • Single sign-on (SSO)
    • Creating your avatar
    • The menu screen
    • Starting your first Session
    • Basic controls
      • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Your safety
    • Help with log-in issues
    • Exploring ENGAGE
  • Video tutorials
    • Beginner
    • Intermediate
    • Advanced
  • ENGAGE LINK
    • Accessing ENGAGE LINK
    • ENGAGE LINK plazas
    • Joining other people in LINK
    • Getting assistance in ENGAGE LINK
    • Creating a metaworld
  • Avatars
    • Editing your avatar
    • Creating a new avatar
    • Using My Face
      • Changing My Face skin tone
    • Setting your height
    • Capturing a profile photo
    • Full-body and basic avatars
    • VR tracking modes
    • Realigning your avatar in VR
  • Sessions
    • Joining a Session
      • Joining a listed Session
      • Joining with a Session ID
      • Joining through an invitation
      • Joining through a quick link
      • Requesting to join a connection
    • Creating a Session
      • Creating a private Session
      • Creating a public Session
      • Creating an Enterprise Group Session
      • Creating an unlisted Session
      • Session capacity
    • Inviting others to your Session
    • Leaving a Session
    • Finding a Session ID
    • Persistent Sessions
      • Creating a persistent Session
      • Joining a persistent Session
      • Setting the location for a persistent Session
  • Essential features
    • Accessing your menu
      • Using hand controllers to interact with your menu
    • Connections
      • Accepting or rejecting an invitation to connect
      • Inviting someone to connect
      • Cancelling an invitation to connect
      • Removing a connection
      • Session invitations
        • Accepting a connection's request to join your Session
    • Audio settings
      • Turning your microphone on and off
      • Resetting your audio
      • Selecting your microphone input on Windows or PC VR
      • Setting the voice recognition language
    • Moving around
    • Teleporting
    • Travelling through a portal
      • Travelling through a password protected portal
    • Wrist controls
    • Using chairs
    • Gestures
      • Using gestures on a phone, tablet, or desktop device
      • Using gestures on a VR headset
    • Emojis
      • Using emojis from your menu
      • Using emojis from your wrist controls
      • Using emojis from keyboard shortcuts
    • Web browser
      • Managing web links
      • Sharing a website
      • Cloud storage connections
        • Connecting to OneDrive
        • Connecting to DropBox
        • Disconnecting a cloud connection
    • Sharing media
      • Managing video links
      • Videos
        • Playing a video
        • Controlling video playback
        • Supported video file types
      • Websites
      • Presentations and other files
        • Sharing a presentation from OneDrive
      • Computer desktop
      • The 360 video room
        • Visiting the 360 video room
        • Switching to the 360 video room from another location
        • Using the 360 video room pedestal
    • Accessing ENGAGE content
      • Controlling the playback of content
    • Using your virtual keyboard
      • Using special characters
      • Changing the language of the virtual keyboard
      • Using shortcuts on the virtual keyboard
      • Moving the virtual keyboard
    • Registering for a PLUS account
  • Advanced features
    • Changing location
    • Taking a picture with the ENGAGE camera
    • Using IFX
      • Adding IFX
      • Saving IFX
      • Web URL Image IFX
      • Session portal IFX
      • Web button IFX
    • Snapshots
      • Saving a snapshot
      • Loading a snapshot
      • Ungrouping a snapshot
    • Whiteboards and blackboards
      • Adding a whiteboard or blackboard IFX
      • Adding a whiteboard from wrist controls
      • Drawing on boards on VR headsets
      • Drawing tool panel
    • 3D pen
    • Sticky notes
      • Creating a sticky note from the Notes page
      • Creating a sticky note from the wrist control
      • Creating a sticky note from a keyboard shortcut
      • Moving a sticky note
      • Locking a sticky note
      • Deleting a sticky note
    • Recordings
      • Creating a recording
      • Loading a recording
      • Controlling the playback of recordings
      • Advanced playback settings
      • Editing a recording
    • Modifying objects
      • Finding an object bubble
      • Accessing the control menu
      • Moving an object by selecting
        • Moving by selection in VR
        • Moving by selection on a desktop device
      • Transforming an object
      • Sharing an object
      • Cloning an object
      • Locking an object
      • Deleting an object
    • The gizmo
      • Interacting with the gizmo on a desktop device
      • Interacting with the gizmo on a VR headset
    • Forms
      • Creating and managing forms in the ENGAGE app
      • Creating a form in the web manager
      • Editing settings for a form in the web manager
      • Questions
        • Adding a multiple-choice question
        • Adding a questionnaire question
        • Adding a paragraph question
        • Adding an information slide
        • Configuring which questions are enabled
        • Reordering questions
      • Testing a form
      • Delivering a form
      • Viewing results
    • Accessing files on your device
      • Changes to file storage in ENGAGE v3.5
    • Mixed Reality
      • Room setup
      • Mixed reality Location Anchor
      • Hidden IFX
      • Mixed reality settings
      • Changing your menu screen environment
      • Mixed reality passthrough window
      • Turning on spatial data permission
  • Host controls
    • User search and sort options
    • Adding a co-host
    • Removing a co-host
    • Controlling permissions
      • Setting permissions for all users
      • Setting permissions for an individual user
    • Controlling microphones
      • Managing the microphones of all users
      • Managing the microphone of an individual user
    • Seating
      • Seating all users
      • Seating an individual user
    • Summoning users
      • Summoning all users
      • Summoning a single user
    • Removing or banning a user
    • Deleting IFX
      • Deleting all user IFX in a Session
      • Deleting all shared IFX in a Session
      • Deleting IFX associated with an individual user
    • Assigning full-body avatars
    • Personal boundaries
    • Realigning a user's avatar
    • Locking a Session or Event
    • Restricting a Session to group members
    • User status icons
  • Events
    • Viewing the Events list
    • Event registration options
    • Joining an Event
    • Password protected Events
    • Withdrawing from an Event
  • Configuring the ENGAGE app
    • Choosing a language in the ENGAGE app
    • User preferences
    • Pausing notifications
    • Turning menu screen music on and off
    • Reporting a bug
  • Managing your account
    • Managing your password
      • Changing your password in the ENGAGE app
      • Changing your password in the web manager
      • Resetting your password in the ENGAGE app
      • Resetting your password in the web manager
    • Managing your profile
      • Updating your profile details in the ENGAGE app
      • Updating your profile details in the web manager
      • Changing your email address
    • Managing a PLUS subscription
      • Viewing your subscription history
      • Changing your billing details
      • Viewing your payment history
      • Cancelling your PLUS subscription
    • Deleting your account
    • Reviewing your SSO status
    • Two-factor authentication
      • Reviewing your 2FA status
      • Turning on 2FA
      • Turning off 2FA
      • Retrieving your recovery codes
      • Using a recovery code to log in
  • Web manager
    • Choosing a language in the web manager
    • Managing your group membership
    • Uploading a profile image
    • Managing notes in the web manager
      • Creating notes in the web manager
      • Editing notes in the web manager
    • Media
      • Creating a web link in the web manager
      • Creating a video link in the web manager
      • Setting up a cloud storage connection in the web manager
    • Managing your cookie settings
  • Content Editor
    • Overview
      • Accessing the Content Editor
      • Terminology
      • Design patterns
      • FAQ
    • User interface
      • Controls
        • Controls on a desktop device
        • Controls on a VR headset
      • The editor panel
        • Interacting with the editor panel
        • Moving the editor panel on a VR headset
        • Resizing the editor
        • Timeline
        • Dope sheets
        • Curves
        • Parameter colors
        • Playhead
        • Zooming and panning
      • Keyframe interpolation modes
    • Sequence management
      • Creating a new sequence
      • Loading a saved sequence
      • Loading an autosave
      • Saving a sequence
      • Finding a sequence on your device
      • Changing the length of your sequence
      • Changing the location of your sequence
    • Working with objects
      • Selecting objects
      • Effect options
      • Setting a custom name
      • Adjusting start and end times
      • Replacing an object
      • Recordings
      • IFX
        • Animation overrides
        • Audio IFX
        • Portals
        • IFX with colliders
        • Special function IFX
      • Triggers
        • Button trigger
        • Player body trigger
        • Interactive object trigger
      • Interactive IFX
      • Snapshots
      • Forms
    • Creating animations
      • Keyframe animation
        • Creating a keyframe animation
      • Puppet animation
        • Creating a puppet animation
    • Videos and screens
      • Shared media screens
      • Playing shared media
      • External URL screens
      • 360 screens
      • Chroma key screens
    • Playback events
      • Adding a fade transition
      • Transporting all users
      • Locking all users in place
      • Creating a loop
    • Testing your sequence locally
    • Tutorials
      • Introductory: Animal race
        • Set-up
        • Start and finish lines
        • Add the animals
        • Basic animation
        • Give the wolf a head start
        • Add animation overrides
        • Add another animal
        • Smooth the flight path
      • Introductory: Presentation
        • Adding files to your lesson folder
        • Viewing the completed sequence
        • Opening the sequence in the Content Editor
        • Sequence overview
        • Audience management
          • Adding an IFX to seat attendees
        • Playing shared media
          • Adding an IFX to play shared media
          • Configuring the shared media IFX
        • Playing videos on IFX screens
          • External URL screens
          • Adding an IFX screen for the presentation
          • Configuring the screen for the presentation
        • Creating a video from a slide deck
        • Adding other IFX
          • Adding the ENGAGE LINK map
          • Animating the ENGAGE LINK map
        • Closing the presentation
          • Adding a color fade transition
          • Adjusting the timing of the transition
          • Adjusting the end times
        • Testing your sequence
      • Intermediate: Undersea educational content
        • Record content
        • Create a new sequence
        • Set the starting point
        • Add triggers
        • Create a menu loop
        • The first recording
        • Clown fish school
        • Add a jump back to the menu
        • Add the second recording
        • The orca
        • Smooth the orca's motion
        • Refine the orca's rotation
        • Add a jump back to the menu
        • Further additions
      • Intermediate: Fire extinguisher training
        • Create a new sequence
        • Save your sequence
        • Create the fires
          • Create the electrical fire
          • Create the paper fire
          • Create the gas pipe
          • Create the gas fire
          • Save the sequence
        • Create user feedback
          • Close the Content Editor
          • Choose an appropriate avatar
          • Start a Session
          • Create responses
          • Creating more dramatic responses
        • Add responses to the sequence
          • Return to the Content Editor
          • Save the sequence with a different filename
          • Loop the sequence
        • Gas fire
          • Add options for the gas fire
          • Extend objects on the timeline
          • Add the feedback recordings for the gas fire
        • Paper fire
          • Add options for the paper fire
          • Add images
          • Add the feedback recordings for the paper fire
          • Add a special effect for the CO2 option
          • Improve the explosion
        • Electrical fire
          • Add options for the electrical fire
          • Upload 3D models to Cloud File Manager
          • Load 3D models into the sequence
          • Add buttons that load response recordings
          • Add special effects for water on an electrical fire
        • Add sound effects
        • Limitations and alternative approach
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Essential features

The following sections cover the fundamental tools and features of the ENGAGE platform.

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