{"id":448,"date":"2024-07-31T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/office365\/?p=448"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T14:35:36","slug":"microsoft-teams-town-hall-and-webinar-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/office365\/2024\/07\/31\/microsoft-teams-town-hall-and-webinar-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams &#8211; Town Hall and Webinar events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonospacing\"><b><u>Town Hall events \u2013 available NOW<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">In place of Live Events (which have now been deprecated in Imperial), Microsoft are providing a new feature called Town Halls.\u00a0 This offers many of the features that were available in Live Events, such as anonymous audience viewing and a moderated Q and A using the Teams Q and A feature which has evolved and is available more generally across Teams meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">In addition, Microsoft have added a feature to Town Halls which allows additional presenters on the screen \u2013 so it is much easier to hold Q and A sessions with multiple presenters at the same time or for multiple speakers to appear on screen together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">To request access to schedule a Town Hall event, you will need to complete a new Town Hall request form. Please only complete this form (https:\/\/forms.office.com\/e\/jdi6yP53EQ) to request Town Hall capabilities if you need to deliver a large-audience\u00a0meeting with anonymous, unseen audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\"><b><u>Webinars \u2013 Available NOW<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">If you want to run a webinar, which is more like a normal Teams meeting but with greater audience control and with a registration form, then please complete the Webinar request form at <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/RDq7yw8Vmv\">https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/RDq7yw8Vmv<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\"><b><u>Teams Premium License \u2013 Available NOW<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">We recommend purchasing a Teams Premium license through ICT to gain full functionality, including the advanced features in Town Halls and Webinars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">Teams Premium licenses enable all the registration and communications features in Town Halls and Webinars, and in Webinars, allow for the restriction of numbers and the ability to run a \u201cwait list\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">In addition Teams Premium licenses offer AI meeting notes and tasks features in normal Teams Meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">To request a Teams Premium license (which costs \u00a320 + VAT per user per licensing year (01\/11 \u2013 31\/10) or part thereof) please complete the form on the ICT Service Desk pages (<a href=\"https:\/\/servicemgt.service-now.com\/ask?id=sc_cat_item&amp;table=sc_cat_item&amp;sys_id=62ad78231b060a14557837b5464bcb97\">https:\/\/servicemgt.service-now.com\/ask?id=sc_cat_item&amp;table=sc_cat_item&amp;sys_id=62ad78231b060a14557837b5464bcb97<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Hall events \u2013 available NOW In place of Live Events (which have now been deprecated in Imperial), Microsoft are providing a new feature called Town Halls.\u00a0 This offers many of the features that were available in Live Events, such as anonymous audience viewing and a moderated Q and A using the Teams Q and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312312],"tags":[313996,314078,314074,313982],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-365-general","tag-teams-meetings","tag-teams-premium","tag-town-halls","tag-webinars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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