Tips for a Successful Webinar
You can find tips for successfully planning, promoting, and hosting a webinar online, no matter the platform:
- eLearning’s Top 7 Tips to Be a Successful Webinar Host.
- TechSoup’s 10 Steps for Planning a Successful Webinar.
Free Webinar Options
- 9 Screencasting Tools for the Classroom
In this blog post, Monica Burns, author of EdTech Essentials describes the pros and cons of nine screencasting tools.
- Big Blue Button
Big Blue Button is an open-source Web conferencing option that has education in mind. They just recently teamed up with Moodle.
- Google Meet
This platform is free to anyone with a Google account. It can connect up to 100 people and offers virtual backgrounds, live captions, a chat, and screen sharing.
- Zoom
Zoom is an easy to use platform. Its free plan allows you to host unlimited one to one meetings, but limits group meetings of 3 or more people (up to 100 participants) to 40 mins.
A Comparison of (Free and Paid) Webinar Options
- Growth Marketing Pro shares 23 Best Webinar Software Platforms For Every Business in 2025 (Ranked & Reviewed).