


The host can, however, prompt individual attendees to unmute their microphone and thereby grant them access to be heard during the event (usually to ask a question). Webinar participants/attendees cannot share their video or be seen in Gallery view. Polling, Q&A and chat can be used to solicit attendee responses. Zoom webinar : A three-tiered virtual event held on the Zoom platform wherein one person is the host, a set of panelists are presenters, and all other participants (attendees) are mostly passively witnessing the event. Live Streaming can be used to reach an even larger, yet strictly passive audience. A large meeting option for up to 500 participants is also available.

Although a meeting should have a minimum of two participants (one host and one participant), it can accommodate up to 300 participants. Breakout rooms, polling and chat are modalities available in Zoom meetings. Zoom meeting : A two-tiered virtual gathering held on the Zoom platform wherein one person is the host and all participants have two-way audio/video communication and the ability to screen share. A webinar host can solicit and manage some audience interaction through polling, text questions and answers, and they can grant individual audience members audio access to ask questions. A Zoom webinar is more structured and controlled, like a concert, where only the panelists have access to the “stage." The audience is not visible in a webinar and they passively watch and listen. The following analogy may be helpful, a more detailed explanation is below.īasically, a Zoom meeting is akin to a “campfire ch at” where everyone sitting around the fire is free to be seen, heard and share content- without much intervention from the host. If you are wondering if your next virtual event should be a Zoom webinar or a Zoom meeting, then this article may help you decide.
