Zoom Meetings vs. Webinars

Meetings give a more personal experience, allowing everyone to feel like a full participant. Additionally, meetings allow for Video Breakout Rooms, to allow smaller groups to have a “meeting within a meeting”

Webinars are great for groups not affiliated with your class. Example: Marketing your academic program to a group of prospective students as they allow you to practice and polish your presentation and then open up for Q&A.

Key Features available in both Meetings and Webinars:

Information for managing participants in meetings:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005759423-Managing-participants-in-a-meeting

By default, meetings participants can share their video, screen, and audio. – ALL of these can be turned off for meetings if necessary.

To Turn Screen Sharing for Attendees off in meetings:

Go to https://uga.zoom.us > Click Sign In > Sign in with your MYID
Go to Settings
Scroll to Screen Sharing section and change “Who can share?” to be Host Only

To Mute Attendees

Select Manage Attendees
Select Mute All
Uncheck “Allow participants unmute themselves”

To Disable Video/Camera Sharing

When scheduling or editing a meeting
Under Video section select Off for Participants.