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Choosing your platform

Choosing a widely accessible and easy to use platform is essential for your audience experience and ultimately the success of your event. On these pages we mainly focus on the pros and cons of Zoom, Zoom Webinar and YouTube Premiere as the University holds licences for these platforms, but we have included a short description of a selection of other available programmes below.

Pubble

Pubble enables event hosts to engage in live chats with an online audience, including the ability to moderate questions and responses before they appear in the chat. It also gives the host the ability to allocate questions to specific people on a panel/running the event to answer. This can speed up the handling of enquiries and makes sure that questions are allocated to the most appropriate person to respond.

A free version of Pubble is available (you can pay to get a licence to increase the capacity). Participants do not need to log in or provide their details to use the service, and you can embed the chat in your website and send a link to those you want to participate.

Pros and Cons of Zoom

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Recording events

Both versions of Zoom allow you to record your event. You can use this functionality in various ways, for example:

  • You can run a live event and record it to make it available online afterwards. For accessibility, this should be processed to include captions. If it is recorded using a Zoom Cloud Recording, there is an 'Audio Transcript' setting which will automatically add captions. Otherwise it will need to be uploaded to YouTube as a private video to add automatic captions
  • A talk can be recorded (either on Zoom or using another facility on a computer) and then ‘wrapped’ with a live introduction and a live Q and A.
  • A whole event (including audience welcome, speaker introduction etc) can be recorded in advance and made available on a platform such as YouTube Premiere. Using this method means that there cannot be a live Q and A with the speaker, but YouTube premiere does allow for audience interaction - further information is available below.

Pros and cons of YouTube Premiere

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