Join a webinar

If you are registering or joining a webinar and haven¡¯t received an email confirmation that¡¯s for a panelist or alternative host, you are an attendee in the webinar.

Join a webinar via invitation or link

To join a webinar: 

• Click the link you recieved from the host of the webinar
  or
• Click on the link on the confirmation page after you registered for a webinar.

Manually join a webinar

Locate the 9-digit meeting ID/webinar ID from your registration email

1. Sign in to the Zoom app.
2. Click or tap Join a Meeting.
3. Enter the 9-digit webinar ID, and click Join or tap Join Meeting.
4. If prompted, enter your name and email address, then click Join Webinar or tap Join.

What can an attendee do?

As an attendee, you can:

• Mute/unmute your audio
  If the host gives you permission, you can unmute and talk during the webinar. All participants will be able to hear you. If the host allows you to talk, you will receive a notification.
• Raise your hand
  Virtually raise your hand in the webinar to indicate that you need something from the host. The host may instruct you on how they plan to use this. Many webinar hosts use this feature to know if an attendee has a question and would like to speak out loud.
• Chat 
  Open in-meeting chat, allowing you to send chat messages to and send a message to the host, panelists, and attendees (if permitted). 

• Question & Answer
  Open the Q&A window, allowing you to ask questions to the host and panelists. They can either reply back to you via text in the Q&A window or answer your question live. 

  To ask a question:

  • Type your question into the Q&A box. Click Send.
    Note: Check Send Anonymously if you do not want your name attached to your question in the Q&A.
  • If the host replies via the Q&A, you will see a reply in the Q&A window

Different roles in a webinar

If you are registering or joining a webinar and haven¡¯t received an email confirmation that¡¯s for a panelist or alternative host, you are an attendee in the webinar.

• Host: 
  the user who the webinar is scheduled under. They have full permissions to manage the webinar, panelists, and attendees. There can only be one host of a webinar.

• Co-host/Alternative host:
  Share many of the controls that hosts have, allowing the co-host to manage the administrative side of the webinar, such as managing attendees or starting/stopping the recording. Co-hosts cannot start a webinar. If a host needs someone else to be able to start the webinar, they can assign an alternative host.
• Panelist:
  Full participants in a webinar. They can view and send video, screen share, annotate, etc. You must be assigned panelist permissions by the webinar host.
• Attendee:
  View-only participants who can be unmuted if the host chooses. They can interact with the host and the panelists through the Q&A and the chat.