Hi All
I have been tasked with setting up a webinar facility to deliver some training and have faced a challenge in regards to costs. The current quote is around £3500 for 200 particpants. Has anyone used this facility for much lower costs than these or purchased a licence from Webex. Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you
Rachel
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Hi Rachel
I use GoTo Meeting for my training and just as a note ~You have to be careful with a large amount of participants as when you sign in to deliver training you actually use GoTo Meetings servers/connectivity during the training. There can be a lot of connectivity and sound issues if there are a lot of participants, which is disruptive and frustrating.
There are many good points about it however, given your group sizes, you may want to ask them some specific questions about technical capability.
Thanks
Jo
we use at&t and also microsoft lync. ms lync is great for smaller groups.
Once again thank you for your help
Rachel
Hi,
I use Go To Meeting Webinar to deliver a lot of training (87 sessions this year already), to delegates overseas. In my team we have 5 Go To Meeting licenses, one for each trainer, with a maximum of 100 attendees per session. (I have never had more then 20 delegates per session. I agree with Mike, 200 is too much - can you break it down into more managable chunks?)
Only the meeting organiser needs a license. The organiser sets the meeting up and sends the meeting invite, containing a link to the meeting, out to the delegates. They then simply click on the link, follow the instructions, enter their name and 'POW' their in the meeting.
It's really straight forward and easy for delegates to join, a lot of the people I train using this tool don't have English as their first language and are also in places in the world where internet connections are poor.
For 5 licenses we pay £3360 PA.
I hope this helps.
In my experience 200 participants to facilitate effective training is too much .....it wouldn't be training it would be a broadcast as it would be impossible to get 200 people interacting and engaged. That might not be a problem but with 200 people it would be more like a broadcast and in that case could it not be a recording and people can watch the recording at a time that's convenient to them rather than trying to get 200 people to attend a webinar at the same time - logistically this will be difficult.
How often would you need to get that number of people together for a webinar? You'll pay a licence based on the maximum number of people and if you use it only once then it's money wasted.
There are some big names out there which you may have already looked at like Go-To-Meeting/Training, Adobe Connect and WebEx but also some other options - here is an article that highlights some other tools http://oursocialtimes.com/what-is-the-best-value-webinar-tool/
Hope this is useful
Hi Mike, there is potentially 200 that may join the webinar. Thanks rachel
How many people will you be delivering to at any one time Rachel - 200 seems very high?