Any team on UAB's campus has the ability to book the UAB Webinar account. Below is a helpful chart to help you decide if a Zoom meeting or Zoom webinar is best for your needs:
| Meeting | Webinar | |||
| Description | Zoom meetings are ideal for hosting more interactive sessions where you’ll want to have lots of audience participation or break your session into smaller groups. | Think of webinars like a virtual lecture hall or auditorium. Webinars are ideal for large audiences or events that are open to the public. Typically, webinar attendees do not interact with one another. Though Zoom provides options for you to get more social with your attendees, your average webinar has one or a few people speaking to an audience. | ||
| Best used for | Small to large groups (2+ participants) for: face-to-facing meetings Training sessions |
Large events and public broadcasts (50+ attendees) such as: Town halls Quarterly updates Educational lectures |
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| Typically used by | General employees Training groups |
Event hosts Unit leadership |
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| Audience size | up to 300 | up to 5,000 |
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Helpful Help Articles from Zoom
- Roles in a webinar
- Managing participants in a webinar
- Webinar practice session
- Getting started with Question & Answer
- Using closed captioning
Webinar Accessibility
It is recommend that when units host live-events using Zoom meetings or Zoom webinar that accessibly accommodations are made. UAB has contacts for live-closed captioning and ASL interpreters for Zoom events. Please contact