Webinars in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams offers interactive meetings and webinar capabilities that can reach 1,000 attendees with full interactivity and up to 10,000 attendees with a view-only experience.

Features

• Forms: Use Forms, found in the chat window, to integrate polls into your meeting and view live responses with the Polling option. This allows you to get real-time feedback as attendees become active participants. Optionally, create polls or surveys ahead of your event, then launch them to get instant feedback and responses.
• Live Reactions: With Live Reactions, all attendees can use emojis to share reactions in real-time. Attendees can also use the Raise your hand option to get your attention
• PowerPoint Live: Open the Share tray to share a PowerPoint presentation through PowerPoint Live. It will allow you to view your notes, upcoming slides, attendees, and meeting chat all in one view while presenting.

Start a Webinar

1. To start a webinar, click Calendar in Team's primary left-side menu.
2. In the top-right, click the drop-down for New Meeting and click Webinar. Upon creating the webinar, attendee settings will be defaulted to audio and video off. Settings can be managed with “Change options” after the webinar has been created.
3. Set up the invitation by typing in a title, selecting your presenters and co-presenters, and populating meeting details. At the top are drop-down options to change the time zone, response options, and registration.
   • Click Registration to require registration for either no one, those with Ithaca College credentials and guests, or for everyone.
   • Click Response options to modify whether a meeting response is requested or forwarding the meeting is allowed.
4. To edit the registration form, click View registration form.
   • When you edit the registration form, you can add event details, a header image, speaker bios, and custom questions to the form.
   • At the top is a Copy Link feature so that you can copy the registration link and share it through your email and/or social media channels.

Your webinar is set up and attendees can now register for your event. After registering, they will receive a confirmation email where they can add the event to their calendars or join the event directly when it’s time.

Learn More

• Get started with Teams webinars
• Schedule a Teams webinar
• Share PowerPoint slides in a Teams meeting (PowerPoint Live)
• Create more engaging meetings with presenter modes