What Is A Webinar?

Webinar is the abbreviation for Web-based seminar: a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web.

A key feature of a Webinar is its interactive elements: the ability to give, receive and discuss information. Contrast this with a Webcast, in which the data transmission is one way and does not allow interaction between the presenter and the audience.

You will see the presentation, you will see our instructor and his white board, and you can converse with him.

What Webinars Does HCRQ Offer?

Webinar Offerings

Note that our multi-day software safety and system safety courses are now taught by webinar. This represents a very economical arrangement in keeping with the current economic situation.

How Does It Work?

It's as simple as 1, 2, 3.

HCRQ uses gotomeeting.com

Using gotomeeting, you will:

• see the instructor's computer screen {e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint presentation},
• see the instructor and his white board,
• hear the verbal presentation {via telephone or via your computer speakers/headphones*}, and
• be able to interact with the instructor {via telephone or via your microphone*}.

* gotmeeting provides VoIP at no cost to you. This makes our webinar training very economical to overseas clients.

What Are Its Advantages?

Lower Cost

Everyone is interested in lower costs for training. Training and traveling budgets are not what they used to be.

If you were attending a public offering of one of our courses, you would be faced with travel and living expenses. In addition, you would lose time spent in transit.

If we were teaching you on-site, you would be faced with two costs:

• the travel and living expenses for our instructor, and
• the cost of a senior safety engineer's time spent in transit

Convenience

No more making travel arrangements.

No more travel costs (save at least $1,700 per person, a lot more if you are overseas) if you came to us.

No more wasted travel time.

No more absence from your family.

Ability to attend from the comfort of your home.

You do not have to make special security arrangements for our instructor to come on site.

We can arrange a Webinar fast.

Webinars enable us to teach audiences as small as a single person.

What Equipment Do I Need?

• Computer
• Internet access
• Telephone or microphone and speakers/headphones

For a single student, headphones may be desirable.

For multiple students a speaker phone and a multimedia projector may be optimal.

What Does It Cost Me To Connect My Computer To The Webinar?

Nothing.

What Does it Cost Me to Set Up the Voice Link?

The cost of a long distance call to the conference call center here in the U.S.
OR
nothing if your computer has a microphone and speakers.

Can I Connect More Than One Person (e.g., From Different Locations) To The Webinar?

Yes, providing the additional tuition fees have been paid.

Is There A Limit On Class Size?

Gotomeeting supports 25 attendees.

Do I Receive A Copy Of The Presentation?

Of course. In the case of short Webinars, a soft copy is e-mailed to you prior to the Webinar. In the case of multi-day webinars, bound hard copy will be sent to you prior to the Webinar.

PLEASE NOTE that our course notes are copyrighted.


How Do I Book A Webinar?

Complete the registration form, located on our course/webinar web pages, and e-mail it to us.

When we receive this form, we will e-mail you a confirmation. We will also send you an invoice.

Payment Options

Forward* the tuition fee to us using one of the following methods:

• Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover
  • Our web pages provide payment links for this purpose.
  • We use a secure credit card processing system.
    Please note that it will prompt you for the billing address for your credit card.
  • "HCRQ, Inc." will appear on your credit card statement.
• check drawn on a U.S. bank,
• cashier's check drawn on a U.S. bank,
• money order drawn on a U.S. bank, or
• ACH direct deposit (details available from HCRQ).

* PLEASE bring this to the attention of your purchasing department.

Webinar pricing is based on prepayment.

You are considered registered when we receive your payment.

When we receive your funds, we will e-mail you a gotomeeting link and a "Meeting ID" to be used when you login to gotomeeting on the day of the Webinar. A receipt will be e-mailed to you. In addition, you will receive the telephone number for the conference center and an "Access Code" to be used if you are not using a microphone and speakers/headphones.


What Happens The Day Of My Webinar?

Set up your equipment.

Position yourself in a quiet area where you will not be interrupted.

Have a printed copy of the Webinar presentation next to you so that you can make additional notes.

You must be ready on time.

The Webinar will begin promptly.

Prior to the Webinar commencing, click on the gotomeeting link in our e-mail to you. Download the software following the simple instructions.

You will be prompted for your name and e-mail address. This will permit us to verify who is logged into the Webinar.

Your screen will initialize allowing you to see the instructor's screen as well as a control panel on the right hand side. You can use the control panel to send chat messages to other attendees, to the instructor or to the entire audience. During the Webinar, it will be optimal for you to close this control panel such that you can see the entire screen. This can be done by clicking on the right-pointing arrow near the top left corner of the control panel.

If you wish to communicate by telephone, call the conference center. Enter the "Access Code". You are now connected audibly.

If you wish to communicate by microphone and speakers/headphones, there is no additional software to install. Simply ensure your equipment is functional and click "Use Mic & Speakers" next to "Audio Mode" on the control panel.

What Happens If The Webinar Is Interrupted?

In case of an internet server going down or loss of building power, depending on the length of the disruption and our schedule and yours, we will either resume when everything comes back to normal or schedule your the Webinar for another day.

What Happens After The Webinar?

The Meeting ID is cancelled.

Course certificate(s), in certificate holders, will be mailed to you.

Webinar Progression

There are breaks allowing you to do the usual and also to digress over the material that has been covered.

It should be noted, that for very small classes {e.g., one person}, progression through the course material is faster than it would be for a larger group since less interaction takes place.

Time is allotted at the end of the Webinar for additional questions.

Reasons Not To Attend Our Webinars

• You've attended them already.
• You've attended one of our courses which happened to include the information from the webinar(s) that you otherwise would have attended.
• You've waiting to attend one of our courses which happens to include the information from the webinar(s) that you otherwise would attend.
• You're confident that you have nothing to learn. If so, then you know such things as how to get more and spend less in system safety as one of our webinars teaches you.
• Your company/department will not authorize the expenditure. There is something very wrong if the low cost of a webinar, especially a safety one, cannot be justified any time of the year, recession or no recession!
• No one has complained about your safety analyses/documentation and you believe where there is no smoke there is no fire.

Any Questions?

If so, e-mail us.


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