Table of Contents
- What Is a Zoom Webinar?
- Comparison Between Zoom Meeting and Zoom Webinar
- Webinar Cost Structure
- Purchasing a Zoom Webinar License
What Is a Zoom Webinar?
Zoom Webinar is a separate product offered by Zoom that allows you to broadcast a Zoom meeting to up to 10,000 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.
If you are considering the Zoom Webinar product instead of a regular Zoom Meeting, we encourage you to first view the Zoom Meeting and Webinar comparison. Note: Zoom Webinars do not have breakout rooms and attendees will not be allowed to turn on the microphones to speak.
Zoom Meetings that are properly setup and managed can replicate most of the features Zoom Webinars offer and without any additional cost. For more information on setting up a Zoom Meeting for a large audience see -
- Recommended Settings for Hosting a Large Zoom Meeting
- Best Practices for Hosting a Large Zoom Meeting
Comparison Between Zoom Meeting and Zoom Webinar
Zoom Meetings |
Zoom Webinars |
Amount of Participants - 300 |
Amount of Participants - 100 , 500 or more depending on webinar license |
Content Sharing - All Participants |
Content Sharing - Host, Co-host and Panelists Only |
Audio & Video - All Participants |
Audio & Video - Host, Co-host and Panelist Only |
Chat - Host to All Participants and Participant to Participant Privately and Publicly (Hosts can disable Public and Private Chat, if so desired) |
Chat - Hosts, Co-hosts, Panelists and Participants can publicly (Hosts can disable chat completely for participants, if so desired) |
Polling - Available |
Polling - Available |
Breakout Rooms - Available |
Breakout Rooms - Not available |
Q&A - Not available |
Q&A - Available |
Use Cases
Use Case |
Considerations |
Solution |
Staff or team meetings |
No more than 300 participants, video and audio of all participants, and ability to content share. More participant engagement. |
Meeting |
Regular meetings |
Ability to see all participants, everyone has audio, video and chat (public or private). |
Meeting |
Class under 300 |
Ideal for interactive sessions where you’ll want to have lots of audience participation or utilize breakout sessions for small group discussions. |
Meeting |
Virtual conference |
More than 300 attendees, better control for host, co-host and panelist. Audio, video and content can be shared by host, co-host and panelist only. Includes polling feature, to enhance attendee engagement. |
Webinar |
Town hall meetings |
Large audience or event that is sometimes open to the public and expects little, if any, participant engagement. |
Webinar |
Class of over 300 students |
A virtual lecture hall with a very large audience. Ability to use Q&A feature for attendees to ask questions during class. |
Webinar |
ND Studios Webinar Services
There are two types of Zoom Webinar services offered by ND Studios, Supported Webinar and Self-Managed Webinar. To schedule or plan a Zoom Webinar, you can submit a request at https://studios.nd.edu/get-started/ or contact ND Studios at: Studios@nd.edu 574-631-2200.
Supported Webinar
With this webinar type, ND Studios will fully support your webinar event. This will include consultation, pre-event testing, configuration, security, event support and providing post-event analytics. This method will also make use of an appropriately sized webinar license. A Supported Webinar can either be integrated with the technology in the Martin Media Center for a professional quality production or the event can be supported remotely with engineers from ND Studios. Costs for this webinar type are outlined in the Webinar Cost Structure below.
An option is to also send the webinar to a live streaming platform, such as YouTube or Facebook, to share your content with a much larger audience. Additional fees will apply.
Self-supported Webinar
With this webinar type, the requesting client will operate their own event, with an appropriately sized webinar license provided by ND Studios. ND Studios will configure the webinar with the appropriate security and webinar parameters that meet the needs of your virtual event. Costs for this webinar type are outlined in the Webinar Cost Structure.
Webinar Cost Structure
Webinar Cost Structure - Supported
- Webinar Configuration $250
- Webinar License Rental
- 100 participants $30
- 500 participants $50
- 1000 participants $75
- Support staff charges for event and testing time - $75/hr
- Events using the Martin Media Center will incur additional costs. A quote will be provided for review.
Webinar Cost Structure - Self-supported
- Webinar Configuration $250
- Webinar License Rental
- 100 participants $30
- 500 participants $50
- 1000 participants $75
Purchasing a Zoom Webinar License
If, after a consultation with ND Studios staff, it is still determined that a dedicated webinar license is needed, based on demand, a license can be purchased.
Dedicated Annual License Rate (unlimited use for the year)
- $350 / year (100-participants)
- $1,215 / year (500-participants)
- $3,400 / year (1000-participants)
Dedicated annual licenses are best if you wish to register participants or generate reporting in connection with your webinars.
To request the purchase of an annual Zoom webinar license, please submit a request using this form. The OIT requests a one week notice in advance for provisioning the license. Premium licenses are also available for Zoom Rooms, more information can be found here.
Training relative to administering a webinar is available directly from Zoom
For self-paced tutorials, view Zoom video tutorials including Zoom Webinar.