In this article:
- Join a webinar
- Host a webinar
- Start a webinar
- Interactive tools
- Tips for hosting and presenting a webinar
- Help
To host and schedule a webinar, you'll need a Zoom Webinar license. Webinar licences are currently available on request by emailing webinars@essex.ac.uk.
If you are the host, you have control over the webinar. The link for the webinar will be in your timetable and Outlook calendar.
You can share your screen with your students, share documents or share another device, such as an iPad. You can video yourself (you will need a webcam) and you can allow students to speak or not.
Webinars will be automatically recorded.
There are a few ways that you can start your webinar.
If you start the webinar ahead of time, the webinar will start in practice mode allowing you to set up before participants can join. When you are ready to go, click Broadcast to start the webinar and allow the attendees to join.
Zoom webinars have interactive tools to allow you to better engage with your audience.
Rehearse before the main event even if it’s a test run to familiarise yourself with the software and its tools.
Have a co-host on hand to help. A co-host can act as the moderator and help answer questions and chats from attendees regarding potential technical issues leaving you free to deliver learning to students with fewer interruptions.
Keep checking in if there is a period of silence while waiting for attendees to join. Letting your attendees know you are waiting an extra two minutes for people to join will cut down on queries like ‘Has the webinar started?’ and ‘I can’t hear anything’.
Do some housekeeping at the beginning. Let attendees know what tools you will be using, how to ask questions and to use the chat facility if they have technical difficulties. Also let them know if you will answer questions throughout, or have a Q&A session at the end.
As part of the University’s plans to roll out online/blended learning, we are offering training in the use of the Zoom web-conferencing tool for teaching. Find out more.