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Any team on UAB's campus has the ability to book the UAB Webinar account. Below is a helpful chart to help you decide if a Zoom meeting or Zoom webinar is best for your needs: 

  Meeting Webinar    
Description Zoom meetings are ideal for hosting more interactive sessions where you’ll want to have lots of audience participation or break your session into smaller groups. Think of webinars like a virtual lecture hall or auditorium. Webinars are ideal for large audiences or events that are open to the public. Typically, webinar attendees do not interact with one another. Though Zoom provides options for you to get more social with your attendees, your average webinar has one or a few people speaking to an audience.    
Best used for Small to large groups (2+ participants) for:
face-to-facing meetings
Training sessions
Large events and public broadcasts (50+ attendees) such as:
Town halls
Quarterly updates
Educational lectures
   
Typically used by General employees
Training groups
Event hosts
Unit leadership
   
Audience size up to 300 up to 5,000    

Book a Webinar

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Helpful Help Articles from Zoom

Webinar Accessibility 

It is recommend that when units host live-events using Zoom meetings or Zoom webinar that accessibly accommodations are made. UAB has contacts for live-closed captioning and ASL interpreters for Zoom events. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information. 

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