Overview
Panelists are full participants in the meeting. They can view and send video, screen share, annotate, etc. You can have up to 100 panelists (including the host) in a Webinar. This is different than attendees who are view-only participants who can be unmuted.
This article covers inviting panelists ahead of time. You can also promote an attendee to a panelist during a webinar. Learn more.
This article covers:
Prerequisites
- Webinar plan of 100, 500, 1000, 3000, 5000, or 10000 participants
- Registration Webinar or Registrationless Webinar Scheduled
How to Add a Panelist to a Webinar
You can invite a person or Zoom Room to be a webinar panelist.
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
- Click Webinars.
- Click the topic of the webinar you want to add panelists to.
- In the Invitations tab, select the Edit button in the Invite panelists section.
- Enter a name and email address to invite them. If you're inviting a Zoom Room, enter the room name. The room's location will display in the Email/Zoom Rooms column.
- Select Add Another Panelist to add more panelists. Press Save to send invites to the new panelists entered.
Note:
- You can add up to 100 panelists
- You can delete and add panelists any time prior to the Webinar
- If you checked Send Invitation Email to Panelists Immediately, they will be sent an email invitation after you click Save.
Recurring Webinars
If a webinar is recurring, the user will be a panelist for all webinars in that series. If you want them to join as a panelist for one webinar occurrence only, you will need to add them as a panelist before the webinar that you want them to be a panelist for and remove them before the next occurrence.
Removing a Panelist
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
- Click Webinars.
- Click the topic of the webinar you need to remove panelists from.
- Select the Edit button in the Panelist section.
- Next to the panelist's name, click Delete.
- Click Save.
This panelist will now be removed from all webinars in the series and will need to join as an attendee.