Webinars are Gradual's newest event type, which combines the experience of a livestream and a meeting event. They allow you to present and stream natively in Gradual and bring attendees to the stage to provide an interactive video call for a larger audience of attendees.
Hosts and Panelists are live on stage with most attendees behind the scenes (off-screen and audio). Assigned hosts can bring attendees on screen by promoting them to panelists and once attendees are promoted as panelists, they are live on video, and audio, and can screen share.
Hosts or staff still have the elevated controls to record the meeting, moderate chat, control audio settings, and assign break-out rooms during the call - similar to features in meeting rooms.
Currently, the capacity for webinars is 350 active attendees in the call.
20 of those attendees can be assigned 'host' at one time
50 of those attendees can be assigned 'panelist' at one time
You can offer up to 600 tickets to the event, but only 350 attendees will be able to log in and engage in the event on a first-come-first-served basis.
If you'd like all attendees, no matter their role, to be on camera and audio automatically, and meet ‘face-to-face', a Meeting Event is the suggested event type. The capacity for meeting rooms is 125 active attendees in the call.
Webinar events can support all attendees logging in on a mobile device, but the feature is in beta and still being tested and verified. If you experience any issues with attendees logging in on a mobile device, please report them to [email protected]
Webinar Attendee Roles
There are various roles in the webinar and assignments will dictate if the attendee is live on screen or behind the scenes.
Learn more about these controls and assigning these roles here.
Hosts
Hosts can be on video and audio in the event, and have the most elevated controls during the live event; they can promote attendees to 'panelists' to bring them on screen, live in the event, and screen share, moderate chat, record the event, control audio, etc.
Panelists
Panelists can be on video and audio in the event and can screen share.
Attendees
All other registrants are assigned attendees. Attendees are NOT on video and audio in the event but can be promoted to panelists to come on video and audio by hosts or staff.
Staff
Staff members are NOT on video and audio in the event, but have elevated controls during the live event to promote attendees to 'panelists' to bring them on screen, live in the event, and moderate chat, record, control audio, etc.
I want to host webinars!
Reach out to the Gradual team to turn on the webinar feature in your dashboard and start hosting webinars.