How to Set Up a Zoom Webinar

How to Set Up a Zoom Webinar

  • Webinar Setup

    • Setup your webinar in the Academy’s Zoom account

      • https://zoom.us

      • Username: academy4professionalexcellence@mail.sdsu.edu

      • Password: 6505Riverside

        • Click on ‘Webinars’  in the left panel

        • Click ‘Schedule a Webinar’

        • Under ‘Topic’, name your webinar

        • Include an optional description if desired

        • Input the date and time

        • Input the duration

        • Under ‘Registration’, check ‘Required’

        • Under ‘Video’, make sure both are ‘Off’

        • Under ‘Audio’, check ‘Both’

        • Under ‘Webinar Options’, check the following:

          • Q&A

          • Enable Practice Session

          • Record the webinar automatically

            • On the local computer

        • Add your work email as the ‘Alternate Host’

        • Click ‘Schedule Webinar’

        • Once the webinar is loaded, you have some additional options when you scroll to the bottom of the page including:

      • Adding alternative hosts

        • This is where you will add the Trainer(s) and RIHS Technical Assistant
          • Click ‘Invitations’
          • Click the blue ‘Edit’ button to the right of the ‘Invite Panelists’ section

            • Add the trainer name(s) and email address(es)

            • Add ‘RIHS Technical Assistant’ and the tech assistant’s SDSU email

          • NOTE, in order to prevent the trainer from starting the webinar prior to your Live date, you may want to wait until two weeks before the webinar to add their name and email address. Once the initial invitation is sent, you can go back to this section and click ‘Resend’, which will send another copy of the login information to the trainer (do this as a courtesy the day before or day-of to both the trainer and tech assistant)

      • Creating Polls

        • Click the ‘Polls’ tab at the bottom
        • Click ‘Add’
        • Enter a poll name if you like (they will be automatically numbered)

        • Add your poll question and answer choices

        • Add as many questions per poll that you want

        • If you are only asking one question per instance, then create a new poll for each question

      • Pulling your attendance report

        • In the left side-panel, click ‘Reports’
        • Click ‘Webinar’
        • Select ‘Attendee Report’

        • Find your webinar using the date range or webinar id and click ‘Filter’ or ‘Search’ respectively

        • Check your webinar

        • Choose additional features like “Summary info” and “Sort the attendee…” if desired

        • Click ‘Generate CSV Report’

        • Once your report is downloaded, open the sheet

        • Scroll to the Attendee section

          • Expand cells ‘G’ (Join time) and ‘H’ (Leave time)

          • Using the fill color, go through and mark all individuals that were in attendance for the proper time (missing no more than 5-minutes) in GREEN, mark all others in RED NOTE: attendees may log off and log back on. In this case, add all times they were logged on to ensure attendance status.

          • Update the attendance in the LMS or send the completed report to the RIHS Admin Assistant in charge of completing attendance


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