Zoom X webinars

Both Zoom X Workplace and Zoom X Webinars are excellent ways to connect and collaborate with large audiences. They also allow valuable information to be collected through mandatory registration. However, Zoom Workplace is designed for meetings, while Zoom Webinars is designed for conducting online courses and webinars. Therefore, there are fundamental differences between the two:

Zoom X Workplace is designed for close collaboration with its meetings, allowing participants to use audio and video, share their screen, and make annotations in an interactive live environment.

Zoom X webinars give you more options for managing your target audience. Instead of using video and audio, webinar participants can communicate with the host and all other participants via the Q&A and chat fields.

Zoom Meetings can be useful for a collaborative classroom environment where participants can work directly with shared content and with each other. Webinars, on the other hand, are well suited for online lectures where participants can listen, view content and ask questions using the Q&A feature.

To help you decide which option is best for you, here is a comparison of the features of our licensed meetings and webinar accounts.

With Zoom X webinars, companies of all sizes can easily create large online events with video and audio transmission. Screen sharing is also possible for better engagement. The simple user interface supports you in planning and conducting professional webinars. Zoom X guarantees up to 100 video participants and 10,000 viewers for a better, interactive experience with great reliability. On request from our sales team, you can also get packages with up to 20,000 viewers.

Here are the key features for creating a productive virtual classroom:

Set password: Set a meeting or webinar password and share it with your course and webinar participants to ensure that only guests with the password can enter your virtual classroom.

Only allow participants with Zoom Webinar registration: For meetings and webinars, you can make registration mandatory to see who has signed up to participate in your class. You can also manually approve each registered user to better assess who is participating in your class.

Enable waiting rooms: Waiting rooms prevent participants from automatically joining a meeting and are enabled by default for users in our programme for school classes up to Year 13. You can admit each participant individually or all participants at once. You can also allow students who are logged in via your school's domain to skip the waiting room. Meanwhile, participants who are not part of your school's domain must be admitted individually.

Disable screen sharing: For education users, screen sharing settings are configured so that only the host can share their screen. This prevents participants from sharing unwanted or distracting content. To allow users to share content, you can adjust this setting or disable and re-enable sharing during the meeting using the security icon.

Disable private chat: The host can block chat so that participants cannot exchange private messages. However, they can still chat with the teacher and ask for help, for example.

Manage participants: If an uninvited guest joins your class, you can remove them using the controls in the security icon. For more information on managing participants, such as the ability to mute participants, turn off their video, and restrict renaming, please visit our Support Centre.

Lock meeting: You can also lock the meeting directly via the security icon to prevent other participants from joining the meeting after it has started. This feature not only prevents uninvited guests from participating, but also allows you to quickly identify who arrived late to your course.

Breakout rooms allow you to divide your class into up to 50 different meeting rooms. This is ideal for group-based activities or tasks. In each breakout room, participants have full audio, video and sharing capabilities. Students in each room can also call the host if they need help. The host can also visit each breakout room to help, answer questions or check on participants.

To use this feature, you must have breakout rooms enabled in your meeting settings. You can then assign participants to groups either manually in advance or automatically. Learn more about how to enable breakout rooms here.

One way to check attendance during your online lessons is to require registration. This allows you to collect data using a registration report and check who registered and who actually attended your webinar via Zoom.

You can also check attendance with a survey during the lesson. Export this survey to document the attendance of all participants later.

Further frequently asked questions can be found here.