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Faculty, students, and staff can review the sections below for answers to questions commonly asked about Webex.

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| How many total participants can I have in a Webex Session? | Webex can hold up to 1,000 Participants. You may have any combination of Cohosts and Participants in Meetings and any combination of Panelists and Attendees in Webinars. |
| Should I use a Personal Room or a Scheduled Meeting? | [Which type of Webex Session should I use?](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10828448854) |
| Should I hold a Webex Meeting or a Webex Webinar? | ### Differences Between Webex Meetings and Webex Webinars<br>Review the sections below to determine whether you should hold a Webex Meeting or a Webex Webinar.<br>#### Webex Meetings<br>- Used for conversations, department meetings, online classes.
- In a Meeting, all attendees can use their microphone, camera, and share their screen.
- Everyone may use the Chat feature.<br>#### Webex Webinars<br>- Used for one-way dissemination of information.
- In a Webinar, only Panelists may use their camera, microphone and screen-share. Attendees may only listen and watch.
- Attendees may use the Chat and Q&A features in order to communicate with the Panelists.
- Panelists may use the Chat to communicate with each other privately or with the Attendees publicly.<br>More information: [Which type of Webex Session should I use?](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10828448854) |
| How long can my Webex session run? | Every session has a limit of 24 hours. |
| How many sessions can I run from my account at the same time? | Your Webex account can have 5 concurrently scheduled sessions. It does not matter if you are not hosting/participating in these sessions; you cannot have more than** 5** sessions concurrently scheduled, even though Webex allows you to schedule more. Both Meetings and Webinars will count towards this quota.<br>If you need more than 5 sessions, please consider using [Breakout Sessions](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10811540100). Otherwise, please plan on coordinating with other UConn users to have them schedule some from their account. |
| What should I know about Breakout Sessions? | - Participants can be automatically sorted or manually sorted. A manual sort will take some time if you have a lot of Participants.
- Invited Participants can be pre-assigned a Breakout Session.
- If allowed by the Host, Participants who are using the Webex Desktop App can move themselves between Breakout Sessions.
- The Host and Cohosts can manage the breakout sessions, but not at the same time.
- The Host and Cohosts will not be automatically assigned to a session; they must be assigned manually. They can move from session to session.
- Up to 100 breakout sessions; 1,000 Participants can be split split among those sessions.
- Sessions can be named. |
| Can I record or livestream my Webex sessions? Can I share those Recordings? | Yes, the record and livestream functions are independent and can be activated at any time.<br>- [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10767466622](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10767466622)
- [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10792600482](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10792600482) |
| How do I connect <u>my</u> Webex to a classroom that has cameras built in? | All UConn classrooms now send their microphones to the computer and laptop USB connection.<br>To learn more:  [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/10889560316](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TL/pages/10889560316) |
| How can I send my Webex invitation to a group or Listserv? | [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10825629914](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10825629914) |

## Additional Support

- [Troubleshooting Webex](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10763765227)

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