Both are how a stream talks to itself, so they share one rule: every member of the school reads and writes, teachers schedule and host.
Scheduling a webinar
The Webinars section starts with a stream, because meetings belong to a stream rather than to the school as a whole. Then a title, a start time and a duration.
The schedule refreshes on its own, and the Join button comes alive when the time arrives. Nobody has to sit there pressing Refresh.
Who speaks, who listens
The role in a room travels with the pass and is not adjusted inside the meeting:
the teacher hosts — speaks and shares a screen;
students listen and raise a hand.
A pass is issued for a limited time and only to someone entitled to enter. We do not distribute the media ourselves; a dedicated video server does that. What we promise is up to fifty participants in one room, which is also what the plans page says.
If video calling is not configured on a particular installation, the schedule still works and the Join button is simply absent. That is more honest than a button that answers with an error.
The stream chat
There is one chat per stream. Private conversations between a teacher and a student do not exist in the portal, and that is not an omission: private messaging lives in the Voone app, where a person keeps their own account.
Worth knowing:
school files can be attached to a message — the same files that sit in your materials;
you can edit and delete your own message; a teacher can delete anyone's;
new messages arrive by polling every few seconds, and the polling sleeps while the tab is hidden, because a school keeps the chat open all day.
A chat is not a mailing
The chat is a conversation inside a stream, read by people who came to the portal. It does not replace mail: somebody who has not opened the portal for a week will not see it.
If the news matters — a class moved, an exam rescheduled — repeat it through a channel that reaches people without the portal. Meeting links and reminders exist for exactly that.