Attention Management is a set of powerful facilitation features for meetings and workshops. It allows meeting organizers and workshop facilitators to guide participants and ensure everyone is following and engaged.
Why use attention management?
This feature is especially important for facilitating massive workshops with dozens of participants because it helps to direct their attention to the area of the board where collaboration is happening at a particular moment. As a facilitator, you can easily switch between presenting and collaborating - take the stage and present the board to the participants and, when necessary, start collaborating right away.
💡 Never get lost on the board with the color alignment - the color of the cursors and avatar borders of your collaborators are synchronized for all board participants.
Follow
Available for: Free, Starter, Business and Enterprise plans
If you are working with multiple facilitators or presenters, it's possible to follow them. This way you can easily switch between different areas of the board and follow what other participants do.
Navigate to the communication toolbar in the top right corner and click on the avatar of a particular collaborator to start following them. To stop following a user, click anywhere on the board, move the cursor, or just zoom in/out.
Following the collaborator
The user that is being followed sees the corresponding message on their avatar.
The board editor is followed by another user on the board
Bring everyone to me
Available for: Starter, Education, Business and Enterprise plans
Set up by: board owners, co-owners, editors who have editing access via email invitation or because they are a part of a project or team
Easily bring all collaborators to the area of the board you want everyone to focus on with Bring everyone to me functionality. Once you bring all of the participants to the particular area of the board, we enable auto-following, which means that all of the collaborators will be seeing exactly the same content as you until they move their cursors/zoom/click the board.
Navigate to the communication toolbar in the top right corner and click on your own avatar and choose to bring all collaborators to the area of the board you want them to focus on.
Bringing all collaborators
Bring to me
Available for: Free, Starter, Education, Business and Enterprise plans
Set up by: board owners, co-owners, editors who have editing access via email invitation or because they are a part of a project or team
If you notice that someone accidentally got lost on the board, it’s possible to direct collaborators back to the focus area one by one.
Navigate to the communication toolbar in the top right corner and click on your own avatar and choose to bring a particular person to the area of the board you want them to focus on. The user will follow your screen until they move their cursor/zoom/click the board.
Bringing one collaborator
Limitations
Follow, Bring to me and Bring everyone to me features are available to all editors who were explicitly invited to the board via email (including guests with editing access) or have access to the board because they are part of a project or team in Miro. Visitors with edit access can only follow other collaborators.
Logged in (registered) viewers and commenters can only follow other collaborators.
Unregistered visitors who can only view or comment don't have access to attention management features.