Zoom best practices

Difference between Zoom meeting and Zoom webinar

Zoom account quick start guide

This quick start guide walks you through getting started with your new Zoom account, including essential steps like scheduling your first meeting, downloading the Zoom client, and updating your Zoom profile. Whether you just signed up for your own Zoom account or you have been invited to an existing account, read this quick start guide for a summary of your next steps and click the embedded links to learn more.

Signing up and activating your Zoom accountSigning in to your Zoom account on the webUpdating your profileScheduling your first meetingDownloading the Zoom clientStarting a test meetingStarting your first meeting as the hostInviting others to join your meetingJoining another user's meeting

Difference between Zoom meeting and Zoom webinar

Meetings are designed to be a collaborative event with all participants being able to screen share, turn on their video and audio, and see who else is in attendance.
Webinars are designed so that the host and any designated panelists can share their video, audio and screen. Webinars allow view-only attendees. They have the ability to interact via Q&A, chat, and answering polling questions. The host can also unmute the attendees.

support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005474943-Meeting-and-webinar-comparison

Getting started with Zoom webinar

Zoom Video Webinar allows you to broadcast a Zoom meeting to up to 10000 view-only attendees, depending on the size of your webinar license. Webinar licenses start at a capacity of 100 participants and scale up to 10,000 participants. As the host or a panelist, you can share your screen, video and audio in a webinar and attendees can use the chat or question and answer options to interact with the host and panelists.

Webinars can require preregistration, with the option for the host to add custom registration questions, or registration can be turned off for attendees to join by simply clicking a link at the time of the webinar. Webinars can be held once, can reoccur in a series, or can be the same session held multiple times.

Purchasing a Webinar LicenseRegistration for WebinarsRegistration ApprovalScheduling a WebinarInviting Attendees and PanelistsStarting a Webinar

Attendee reporting

navigate to Account Management<reports

scroll down to meetings or webinars

generating your report

step 1: select attendee report

step 2: select your meeting/webinar

step 3: generate report

A CSV report will automatically download.

how to use the data in your report

Your report indicates the name of each attendee and the time they entered and left your zoom meeting/webinar. This is how you determine who to award a CE certificate to.

Pro-tip: send this list to COA here.