It is a common myth that webinars are a one-way communication tool. But in reality, webinars are an ideal platform for communication between you and your audience, where you can interact, participate and ask questions. It is the ideal set up for communication through distant interaction. Through webinars, information can be delivered and transmitted in several ways.
You can reach out to a large audience at once as live streaming has no participation restrictions. And there is always an option of pre-recording the webinar and broadcasting it to a wider audience at a future time.
Hosting webinars are economical and cost-effective. You can save significant resources that go into travelling and purchasing expensive communication equipment
Webinar tools are simple and easy to implement for a common man as it doesn’t involve complex software.
Accessibility is the biggest advantage of webinars. You can host meetings literally from any corner of the world. Information can be shared with a global audience and crucial decisions can be taken
Students and learners can participate in webinars from the comfort of their home without the restrictions of location or accessibility curtailing them.
Through webinars, trainers and instructors can get the flexibility and freedom to present the material to the students.
With respect to learning, students can use webinars to communicate in the following ways:
Learners can send their queries and get immediate responses through Live Chat and Q&A sessions.
Submit valuable feedback on the outcome of the webinar at the end of the event
Conduct surveys and polls that engage them and evaluate their understanding
Participate and cooperate interactively during lectures to make it lively
For a webinar to reach out to the intended audience-be it students or a corporate crowd, it must have the following characteristics:
Hold the learners’ attention through activities and videos
Keep the session interactive by using features like chat boxes, whiteboards, polls and Q&A.
Incorporate appropriate session lengths with breaks to keep the participants interested.
Integration of web conferencing into teaching will add a social aspect to training and extend the functionality of the LMS. Several reports suggest that students can engage better with video tools, and better retain the information collected. By integration webinars with an LMS, meetings can be directly scheduled and managed. Webinars tools in an LMS can:
Reduce costs
Enhance social learning
Easily Involve professional tutors in training
Improve team collaboration
Remove geographical limitations
Scheduling sessions properly to avoid overlaps and conflicts
Attendance reporting tracked through the webinar tool will be stored in the LMS
Registration and enrollment of participants
At Gyrus, we aim to integrate webinars to our LMS to manage virtual lectures effectively. Our LMS webinar integration can be used to:
Quickly and effortlessly schedule training sessions through the LMS platform. Without integration, every service must be individually handled increasing the time taken, resources utilized and chances of errors. A webinar session can be created through our LMS in no time.
Record all the data in a single centralized system. Data such as student attendance is difficult to monitor if handled by third-party software. Integration with our LMS system will automate the entire data management process saving time and energy.
Send instant notification to the students about the webinar session through the LMS.
Set up the webinar tools easily. Most of the webinar tools work concurrently with our LMS. We offer several extensions and plugins that enable effortless implementation of video conferencing features in our LMS.
Webinars are an excellent supplement to online learning. It can bring people together, present visual data and stimulate discussion. Webinars integrated with LMS supports collaboration and makes the sessions event-driven instead of course driven.
Gyrus integrates its LMS with top of the line video conferencing applications such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack and so on to bring you the best of both worlds of LMS and Video Conferencing.
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