Are you planning to run live online sessions, maybe a kick-off webinar or have your training gone virtual all the way? Virtual classrooms can be bit of a challenge to run, but if you make it more of a process with assignments that will be lifted into the actual sessions - so it all connects and hang together the chance of make it work will be bigger. Live online sessions works best as part of a larger journey, like a program in Promote!
Below you find inspiration from Edward Boon, consultant at Promote International, who share some insights and tips how to make virtual classrooms work. Also see attached pdf at the bottom of this page.
We at Promote runs a major amount of webinars and we have gathered some good practice to lean on if you are about to do an online session yourself.
Please note: The Promote platform itself do not offer any webinar function, so you need to use a third party tool for this, and then put a link to the webinar in Promote. We ourselves use for example GoToWebinar or Adobe Connect as tools.
Pros and Cons with online webinar
| Pros | Cons |
| Diverse Groups | Technical limitations on user's end |
| Lend itself to bite-size learning | More chance of distractions |
| More 'democratic' | Easier to 'bail out' |
| Can be recorded | People are suspicious |
| No need to travel - time and money | |
| Good for the planet |
Choose the right tool for the job
- How big is your audience?
- What are you trying to do?
- What level of interaction do want?
Get the hygiene factors right
- Ask people to perform a technical check in advance
- Ask people to log-in early
- Say ‘Hi’ and perform some audio checks pre-start
- Get a decent pair of headphones