Typically your JMU Zoom account allows you to hold a meeting for unlimited minutes with up to 300 participants. To verify the maximum number of participants allowed in your Zoom meetings:
- Open a web browser to Zoom
- Click Sign In to log in with your eID and password
- Select Profile on the left of the screen
- In the middle of the screen, scroll down to License Type. The License Type should be listed as Licensed and beside Meeting will be the maximum number of participants allowed.
If you need to host more than 300 participants, consider requesting a webinar license well in advance of the event date, as JMU has limited webinar licenses. Zoom Webinars offer similar features and functionality to Zoom meetings, but have some key differences:
- Meetings are designed to be a collaborative event with all participants being able to screen share, turn on their video and audio, and see who else is in attendance. Webinars, however, are designed so that only the host and any designated panelists can share their video, audio and screen.
- Webinars allow view-only attendees:
- They have the ability to interact via QA, Chat, and answering polling questions
- The host can un-mute the attendees.
- Attendees in webinars can not rename themselves.