Webinar Best Practices

For the Presenters:

• Create titles to your pages in PPT, even if you need to hide them. This will allow for easier searchability on the recorded version.
• Have a number of polls or chatting questions to keep them engaged.
• If using PPT, use a lot of slides as you are talking - it will keep their attention more.
• Practice (dress rehearsal) one week before with facilitators.
• Join the webinar 15 minutes in advance of start time.

For the Webinar:

• Attendees should NOT be given the phone number to dial in to. Rather, when they log in, they should be presented with the ability for the webinar to call them. This will allow us to know the name of each person and mute them as needed.
• At least one person should be a facilitator, if not two.
• There should be two chat pods: one for regular chat and one more for questions which will be linked to a presenter's Q and A pod.

House cleaning items should include, in this order:

1. Welcome
2. Intro to the Webinar
3. Intro to the Facilitators - if you have any problem, please use the Q and A pod
4. Please use the polls presented on the first page
5. Schedule for the webinar
6. Questions at any time
7. Use My Status
8. Place yourself on Mute, never on hold
9. Links in the presentation are clickable
10. Introduce the Presenter
11. Presenter starts