Discussion Guides

How to create and access a Discussion Guide for Moderators in Interview & LiveShare sessions

Russ Troester avatar
Written by Russ Troester
Updated over a week ago

When running through a moderated Interview or Live Share session with your participant, it can sometimes be helpful to have a list of questions or notes for things you want to make sure you cover with the participant during your session.


Using Lookback's Discussion guide, you can create a list that will only be seen by you as the moderator so you make sure you don't miss anything important!

Creating a Discussion Guide


A Discussion Guide can be created for both moderated round/session types: Interview and LiveShare

To create your Discussion Guide

  1. Open the round you want to create a guide for
    ​

  2. Enter the relevant information into your guide. It will be the first section at the top and Markdown formatting is supported like other sections of the Round Editor.


    ​

  3. Click Save at the top right to save your changes

πŸš€ If you use a list at the top level, those items will be displayed as checkboxes during the live session (numbers 1, 2, and 3 from the above screenshot).
​


​This allows the moderator to check off questions as they are completed. We do not currently keep the status of those checkboxes anywhere; they are solely an in-session visual aid at this time.

Using your Discussion Guide


To access your Discussion Guide during a moderated session:

  1. Click on the Discussion Guide icon πŸ“„ in the moderator controls at the bottom of your screen
    ​

  2. You can click and drag the Discussion guide anywhere within the player window
    ​

  3. Use the Discussion Guide controls to
    ​

    ​

    1. Check off questions as you complete them
      ​

    2. Change the font size
      ​

    3. Switch the Discussion Guide to Dark Mode
      ​

    4. Close the Discussion Guide

Did this answer your question?