Overview
Zoom Meetings and Webinars serve different collaboration needs — meetings are designed for interactive, two-way participation, while webinars are built for presentations with view-only attendees. This guide explains how to convert between the two formats and what to expect when doing so.
Applies to: Staff Faculty
⚠ Requirements Before Converting
The following conditions must be met before converting between a meeting and a webinar:
●The host user type must be Licensed and assigned the Zoom Webinars add-on.
●The scheduled meeting must use an automatically generated meeting ID — conversions cannot be performed with a Personal Meeting ID (PMI).
●Conversions are only available for scheduled meetings or webinars — not instant meetings.
Step-by-Step Guide
Convert a Meeting to a Webinar
What to Expect
●The meeting/webinar ID remains the same.
●The registration link changes slightly, but the original link will automatically redirect to the new one.
●Existing registrants can still join using their original join link.
●Meeting settings and registrants are transferred to the webinar.
1 Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2 In the navigation menu, click Meetings.
3 Click the name of the meeting you want to convert.
4 Scroll down and click Convert this Meeting to a Webinar (located next to the Start, Edit, and Delete options).
5 Click Convert to confirm.
Step-by-Step Guide
Convert a Webinar to a Meeting
What to Expect
●Webinar-only features (e.g., Q&A, multiple-answer polls, webinar emails, post-webinar surveys) will be removed.
●The registration link will change, but the original link will redirect to the new one.
●Branding elements (e.g., logo, banner) will be retained.
●Panelists will be converted to registrants.
●Existing registrants can still join using their original join link.
Reports will move as follows:
→Webinar Reports will move to Meeting Reports.
→Attendee Reports will move to Usage / Active Hosts (for admins).
●For recurring webinars, reports from past sessions will remain under Webinar Reports.
1 Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2 In the navigation menu, click Webinars.
3 Click the name of the webinar you want to convert.
4 Scroll down and click Convert this Webinar to a Meeting (located next to the Start, Edit, and Save as Template options).
5 Click Convert to confirm.
📋 Additional Notes
●Review feature differences between meetings and webinars before converting to avoid unintended loss of functionality.
●If the event is part of a recurring series, only future sessions will reflect the new format.
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