Difference between Zoom Meeting and Zoom Webinar

Participant roles

• Host and co-host

• Participant

Learn more about Meeting Roles.

• Host and co-host

• Panelist

• Attendee 

  • Cannot see participants panel

  • Depending on host settings, option to:

    • Raise Hand

    • Chat Text

    • Q&A Text.

Learn more about Webinar Roles.

Audio sharing

• All participants can mute/unmute their own audio

• Host can mute/request to unmute participants

• The host can set all participants to mute upon entry

• Only the host and panelists can mute/unmute their own audio

• Attendees join in listen-only mode*

• The host can unmute one or more attendees

Video sharing

All participants

Hosts and panelists

Prevent participants from starting webcam video

• Use Security Button to prevent participants from Starting Webcam Video

• Use Focus Mode to hide participants webcam video from showing to the rest of participants

✔

Screen sharing

✔

✔

Capacity

Participants list

Visible to all participants

Visible to host and panelists only

Email reminders

N/A 

If registration is enabled

Chat

In-meeting chat

Webinar chat

Meeting reactions

✔

✔

Q&A

✔

✔

File transfer

✔

✔

Whiteboard

✔

✔

Annotation

✔

✔

Polling

Polling for meetings

Polling for webinars

Surveys

Surveys for meetings

Surveys for webinars

Livestream

Facebook | YouTube | NUS Mediaweb (Internal)

Facebook | YouTube | NUS Mediaweb (Internal)

Registration

Registration for meetings

Registration for webinars

Closed captioning 
(Live transcript)

✔

✔

Recording

✔

✔

Breakout rooms

✔

 N/A

Practice session

 N/A

✔

Waiting room

✔

 N/A