Implementing chat
As we learned in Chapter 5, Zoom Team Chat is a great way to communicate and collaborate. We can also implement in-webinar chat capabilities. This allows attendees, hosts, and panelists to chat during the webinar either as a group or privately if configured. Chat allows users to comment on items being presented during the webinar. For example, during a webinar, you might introduce a thought-provoking topic that users want to discuss. They can use chat during the webinar to continue the discussion or comment on past ones. You can also disable chat if you don’t want participants to be able to communicate with each other or perhaps you only want them to use Q&A for discussion. For very large or public webinars, it might be a good idea to disable chat to keep attendees focused on the webinar presentation.
How to do it…
- First, you must enable Webinar chat at the account level. To do so, log into the Zoom portal and navigate to Settings from...
