Although you don’t have to be on video throughout your webinar, it’s important that your attendees can see you to build trust and confidence.

Zoom Webinars’ practice session feature is great for making sure that everyone involved in the session is connected early to hash out any last minute details. A planning meeting can also iron out any technical and hardware issues you may have. Have you had a webinar where things just didn’t go right? A quick 30 minute planning meeting can help your hosts and organizers get on the same page, set expectations, and figure out the goals of the webinar. Inserting the webinar meeting number into the /w/ link does not work, nor does it work if you use the Join function in the Zoom app.Are you just learning how to host webinars? Or want to step up your already strong webinar game? Check out our new webinar (54 minutes) where Zoom virtual event specialist Raul Montez and technical trainer and consultant Joshua Jones talk about the top 10 cringeworthy webinar mistakes and how you can avoid them to better your audience experience. The practice session is exactly the same as the live session except that attendees cannot see it, or join it, and the host will see an orange bar at the top advising that this is a practice session, and with an option to BROADCAST live if they wish.īut once the host starts the practice session it’s close to impossible to work out how to invite your panelists to join!Īll of the invitation links send people to the registration page, not to the webinar itself. Once you have set up your webinar, scheduled it for a future date and assigned the roles of host, and if relevant, co-host and panelists, you can click the START THIS WEBINAR button in the webinar settings at any time to initiate a practice session.

The Zoom webinar service offers a “ practice session” option.

Zoom webinar practice session