Method and apparatus for enhanced conferencing

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• determining content information associated with participant information from a plurality of data channels associated with a plurality of participants in a communication session;
• identifying non-conforming participant information based on a comparison of the content information to expected content information;
• generating categorized participant information according to the content information associated with the participant information from the plurality of data channels, wherein the generating includes linking questions and first comments of the plurality of participants in the categorized participant information according to subject matter;
• aggregating the categorized participant information from the plurality of data channels to generate group information;
• sending the group information to a common data channel, wherein the common data channel is presented to each participant of the plurality of participants in the communications session, wherein the questions and first comments of the plurality of participants in the categorized participant information that are linked according to subject matter are sent via the common data channel and presented to the plurality of participants;
• sending a first notification to a first participant via a first data channel of the plurality of data channels responsive to identifying a contribution level associated with the first participant of the plurality of participants according to a plurality of participation metrics;
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• sending a second notification to the plurality of participants responsive to the identifying the non-conforming participant information.

A method, comprising:

• determining, by a processing system including a processor, content information associated with participant information from a plurality of data channels associated with a plurality of participants in a communications session;
• modifying, by the processing system, the participant information responsive to identifying non-conforming participant information;
• generating, by the processing system, categorized participant information according to the content information associated with the participant information from the plurality of data channels, wherein the generating includes linking questions and first comments of the plurality of participants in the categorized participant information according to subject matter;
• aggregating, by the processing system, the categorized participant information from the plurality of data channels to generate group information;
• sending, by the processing system, the group information to a common data channel, wherein the common data channel is presented to each participant of the plurality of participants in the communications session, wherein the questions and first comments of the plurality of participants in the categorized participant information that are linked according to subject matter are sent via the common data channel and presented to the plurality of participants;
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• sending, by the processing system, a first notification to a first participant via a first data channel of the plurality of data channels responsive to identifying a contribution level associated with the first participant of the plurality of participants according to a plurality of participation metrics.