Which Zoom product?

We are using Zoom in three different areas of work:


Below we help you to understand which Zoom products work best for your event.

Zoom Webinars

Zoom Webinars are for hosting online events at scale.

The key thing Zoom webinars include:

  • giving the host greater control - muting all delegates (attendees) for instance

  • polls/Q&A

  • roles of host/co-host, panelist, attendee

  • scaling to 3,000 participants (please note we only have one licence for this size, available on request from ITD - contact Robert Lindesay-Bell or Top Rana)

  • allowing hosts and panelists to see participants list

  • a registration facility

  • Breakout Rooms coming soon!


Get started with Zoom Webinars

Zoom Meetings

Zoom Meetings are for hosting more interactive sessions with external participants. break your session into smaller groups. The interaction will include audience participation and breakout sessions. They are therefore ideal for Virtual Classrooms.

Features include:

  • Breakout rooms

  • Participants can mute/unmute their own audio

  • Host can mute/request to unmute participants

  • Everyone can see all attendees

  • Easier to share/download resources

  • Meeting chat

  • Polling is still available but Q&A is disabled in Meetings

  • The meetings facility is also a great way to record a panel session or interview for publishing as a video online. The Events team can show you all the best way to do this as they have first hand experience.


Get started with Zoom Meetings

You can get more information on comparing the functionality of Zoom Meetings and Zoom Webinars on Zoom's support site.

Internal meetings

At ICAEW Zoom is NOT intended for use for internal-only meetings. Unless they are practice sessions for a future Zoom webinar or meeting with external participants.

For internal-only meetings you must Microsoft Teams.

Zoom video recordings

If you want to create a video recording using Zoom you can do this from any of the Lifesize equipment in our meeting rooms. For more information on using Lifesize for Zoom see Using Zoom in our offices. If you need help with filming you can also speak to ITD.

Did you know...

You can record narration over a presentation directly within PowerPoint? You can then publish the PowerPoint to the website or share it with colleagues on SharePoint or OneDrive. It's really simple. To see how, watch this explainer video from Microsoft.