Create space for participants to get to know the agenda and purpose of the meeting.
You have defined your outcomes and challenges and your participants are ready to jump in to start the activities. Before that, it would be a good idea to set the context and give participants a chance to warm up a bit. At MURAL, we call this the housekeeping section of a template.
This helps collaborators get to know one another and the digital space where they’ll be working. Plus, anyone who visits the mural following the meeting or workshop will know who attended and what happened. Your fellow MURAL member will appreciate the space to set up and set expectations.
Consider anything the participants for your meeting will need to know to successfully participate in the meeting or workshop. This might include:
See the Template Style Guide for an example on how to include these in your mural.
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I usually like to prepare some kind of, housekeeping content, as I call it, on the left side of the template. So, here together with the introduction, I usually like to have, maybe want a section with a purpose. So that we can introduce that to the participants. I'm actually going to add another title here. I'll call this purpose. I think we can remove that word from there. You can also create different, formatting for the headlines. You might want to add a little line here. And now that we have this section ready here.
Now that we have this headline and the text ready here, I can instantly copy this and I can duplicate it by holding down the alt or the option key and clicking drag. And then I can instantly copy and move this section to add another one.
So besides including the purpose of the session here, what the goal and the desired outcome is, I usually also like to include a section with the agenda. So here for example, I can add different times. I'm going to start at nine, going to have a check in, then at 9:15 for example, we're going to have a brainstorming session and so on.
So this is definitely always a good section to include. Another thing I usually like to include in this section are the participants. I'm actually going to add that on the top, so I'm going to drag all this content down a little bit. So I'm going to select the content, and then I'm going to add, participants. So here I can add a couple of place holders as well. Work people can add their profile pictures. So in order to do this I'm going to open up the shapes and connectors section here, in the left toolbar.
Then I can drag out one of these squares here. Increase it a little bit, so that it takes the form of a picture. The border color is a little bit hard so I'm going to soften it a little bit by making it gray. I'm also going to make the line dotted. We can also add a little name tag here, below. So people can add their names. Can drag this out, we can also center this, nice. And now we can basically, you can write profile picture.
And now you can basically just, duplicate this and add as many as you need for your session. Think in this session we're going to be about six people. And so let's make it little bit more space for this. Cool. So this is basically what I want in my housekeeping section, to give a good overview when you start the session.
