How webinars are different from ordinary meetings
Typically, meetings are collaborative and conversational between participants: discussing plans, sharing materials, assigning or accepting tasks, and more.
Webinars, on the other hand, are more structured. Participants have clear roles: one or several experts (presenters) share their ideas or provide training to an audience (attendees). By default, audio and video permissions are turned off for attendees.
Webinar features
Registration
Utilise registration settings such as capacity limits to ensure your webinar runs smoothly even before the event. Create a custom professionally looking registration form with questions for potential attendees to learn more about your audience beforehand. Gain an overview of your event registration via attendee status. Allow external registrations, approval and waitlisting, customise follow up emails.
Branded themes
Organize a custom event for attendees by adding brand images, banners, and color themes.
Presenter bios
Give your attendees more background information about your event's presenters by including photos and bios.
Webinar reports
Gain insights before and after your event with webinar reports. Before it starts, see how many people have viewed the registration site, registered, or canceled their registration. After it ends, view details about how many attended, how much time each attendee spent in your event, and more.
Webinar tips
Before the webinar
Organisers:
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Schedule the webinar well in advance.
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Decide whether the event will be public or private. Public events are open for anyone with the link to register. Private events are only accessible by internal organization members.
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Prepare a registration form that each potential attendee must fill out before receiving the webinar join info. The form can be used to gather useful info for post-webinar contacts, measuring training effectiveness, and more.
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Publish and share the event. Once the webinar details are saved and published, invitations will be sent automatically to presenters and potential attendees. After this step, organisers can also share the live registration link via a web page, email, etc.
Attendees:
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View event details and the event page.
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Receive an email containing webinar info and the link to join it. - it will also be available via their calendar.
Note: People can join webinars on iOS and Android mobile and tablet devices, as well as on their computers.
After the webinar
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The organiser can view and download webinar reports from the 'Attendance' menu item.