Introduction to Zoom Webinar and Large Meeting add-on services

We are pleased to offer our Zoom campus customers an introduction to Zoom Webinar and Large Meeting add-on services.

Zoom offers both Webinars (presentation-style) and Large Meetings (more interactive) with different maximum attendee capacities.  See the ordering instructions and pricing here.  Read about the difference between a Meeting and a Webinar here. 

There are two ways to attach an add-on license to a Zoom account:  to your individual Zoom account or to a departmental Zoom account.  If you request an add-on license by added to your individual account, only you will be able to start the webinar/large meeting.  We recommend attaching the add-on license to a departmental account.  This will allow multiple people within your department to start the webinar/large meetings.

Step-by-step to set up a departmental account to hold the Zoom add-on license:

1. Create a Berkeley Special Purpose Account
2. Sign in to Zoom using the new Special Purpose Account
3. Submit the Telecom Catalog request for a Zoom large meeting or webinar license, for the departmental email address you created in step 1.
4. Once you receive notification that the Zoom license has been configured, go into the Special Purpose Account and add members to the SPA so others in your department can use this shared add-on license.

To start the webinar/large meeting associated with the SPA, assuming you have been given membership access in step 3 above:

1. Sign in to Zoom using the new Special Purpose Account
2. you will be taken into the Zoom system, as the SPA
3. You can now schedule or start a webinar or large meeting

Zoom has an excellent Getting Started with Webinar guide here.

 If you have any questions, please send email to telecom@berkeley.edu