Create seminar

Updated May 11, 2026

To create a webinar on our Market/Sofengo platform, you first need an account on the respective platform and an associated subscription. Please see our corresponding subscriptions at the following link:
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edudip Market: https://www.edudip.market/preise
Edudip Sofengo: https://www.sofengo.de/preise

Subscriptions can be booked annually and webinars can then be held with a maximum of 1000 participants. Free webinars are limited to a maximum of 50 participants.

To create a webinar after booking, please use the “Create seminar” button.

The basic data of the webinar will then be asked. Please give the webinar a title, a description if required, as well as the duration and date of the seminar.

You can then customise the seminar as you wish in the ‘Information’ section. If you would like to promote the seminar on our marketplace, please select the ‘Marketplace and Academy’ option under ‘Publication’. Please note that the commission structure for you as the organiser changes for publicly advertised and paid webinars. You can also find relevant information on our pricing page. Please also refer to the following section on “Publication” in this regard.

Your webinar can be displayed with a representative webinar image that promotes your webinar. To insert an image, position your mouse pointer in the green area to the right of the webinar description and select the pencil icon that appears. You can now select an image from your PC and embed it in your webinar.

Note regarding the recommended image size: 256 pixels x 192 pixels (width x height), (.jpg or .png). Optionally, a YouTube video can be used to present your webinar. To do this, enter the code for a YouTube video.

Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEy3NgExam4
https://www.youtube.com/embed/sEy3NgExam4
https://youtu.be/sEy3NgExam4
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On the webinar page, the video is shown instead of the image. The webinar image continues on the marketplace.

‍Co-host
To get help with hosting or managing your event, select a co-host from your contact list in this section.

‍Publication
In the ‘Publication’ section, you can choose where you want to promote the webinar.

• Marketplace: After activation, your webinar will be publicly listed on the marketplace. If you edit your webinar later (title, description, short description, image, YouTube video), it must be reactivated.
• Academy: Your event is listed in your academy and is rarely discovered by users. However, your subscribers will be notified of your new event.
• Privately: Your event is not listed anywhere.

Brief description
The short description is presented on the overview page of all events and in the invitation template for your webinar. Here you can briefly draw attention to your event (maximum 180 characters).

‍Amount/Participant fee
Decide whether attendance at your event is free or subject to a fee. Free webinars are limited to a maximum of 50 participants. Paid webinars, on the other hand, can be created for up to 1,000 participants. Tip: Host free courses on a regular basis. This will help you raise your profile and receive valuable reviews. Note: This feature is only available to our subscribers.

After selecting the option “The webinar is paid”, you can set the corresponding price. As the organiser, you also have the option to have the seminar recorded. You can offer this recording for a fee or free of charge on our community marketplace or to our marketplace visitors.

‍coupon (only for paid webinars)
By creating a voucher code, you can give your participants a discount on the participation fee.

• Voucher: Specify here how many times a voucher code can be used. The available options are “Disabled”, “1 time”, “10 times”, “20 times”, “Unlimited”
• Voucher code: Enter a voucher code here, which you can then share with your customers. When booking the webinar, participants must enter this code in the ‘Voucher’ field to benefit from the discount.
• Discount: The discount applied by the voucher. Use this field to specify the percentage by which the voucher should reduce the seminar price. You can choose a value between 10% and 90% in increments of 10%.

Promotional coupon (only for paid webinars)
With a promotional coupon, you can let up to 10 participants participate in the webinar free of charge. Here you can send individual people a 100% coupon. This is valid once only for this event.
Please enter the email address of the 100% coupon recipient. After sending it, he automatically receives an email with the promotional coupon.

‍Recording
Please specify whether your seminar should be recorded automatically. You can then make the recording available to participants and anyone else who is interested. You can also set a price for the recording in the ‘Cost per recording’ field. Access to the recording is free for webinar participants.

Note: If the webinar runs over time, a maximum of 60 additional minutes will be recorded.

‍Participant settings
In the ‘Participant Settings’ section, you can set the event conditions and the terms of participation. In this section, you can access settings such as the minimum and maximum number of participants, as well as the registration deadline. You can also specify here whether participants should receive an automatic confirmation of their registration or whether you wish to confirm registrations manually.

• Automatically: As soon as a participant registers for a seminar, their registration is immediately confirmed automatically.
• Manual: After registration, you manually confirm participation. This option is only available for free webinars.

List of participants
‍Define here who can view the list of participants on the seminar page. Please note that as a moderator, you can always view the list of participants.

• Hide: Only you, as the moderator, can view the list of participants.
• Always show: All registered users can view the list of participants.
• Show only to participants: As a moderator, you and all participants registered for the webinar can view the participant list.

Issuing a certificate of participation (only for paid webinars)
After completing the webinar or a series of webinars, you can automatically give your participants a

Other anonymization options, such as hiding the list of participants, are also available in this area.

You can then use the “Presentations” section to embed your presentation directly into the webinar room. You can also do this in the webinar room after creating the presentation. In this section, you can also specify whether you want to make the documents available to your participants. The following file formats are permitted for upload: ppt, pptx, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, jpg, png, and pdf.

Please note that documents may only be uploaded if they are free of third-party rights or if you have a corresponding written declaration of consent regarding the use of the document. Read-only documents (for example, those containing a read-only font) cannot be uploaded.

Only files with a maximum size of 50 MB each may be uploaded. Please check all uploaded slides in the virtual seminar room before the webinar.

In the “Dates” tab, you can now create additional dates or generate event series from the relevant dates. The webinar date you created should be displayed in Event Series 1.

You now have the following options:

• That’s the only appointment you need to make. Click the “Next” button to proceed to the “Invite” section.
• You can add a recurring event by clicking the “+ Add Recurring Event” button. This option is often selected when the same content is presented again to a new group of participants at a different time. A new event series (Series 2) is created in the left column.
• For each event series, you can create optional individual sessions by clicking the “+ Add a new session to this event series” button. This option should be selected if the event content is not to be presented in a single webinar but rather spread across multiple webinar sessions. This is usually necessary when there is a large amount of presentation material that cannot be covered in a single session.

Participants who have registered for a series of events will have access to all dates of this series of events with an access link.

In the “Invitations” section that follows, you can invite the participants you want to your seminar. You have the following options available:

• Email contacts: Saved email contacts can be added directly to the email distribution list
• Saved contacts: You can invite contacts you've created on our platforms directly to your seminars
• Past participants: Participants from previous seminars can be invited directly to your seminars
• CSV Import: By creating an Excel list in CSV format, you can add this list directly to our email distribution list.
• Subscribers: Subscribers may be invited to the seminars

Note: The maximum number of invitations you can send per 24 hours is 50.

In the “Marketing” section, you can now embed your webinar on various websites or recruit participants directly using the “affiliate link.” Please refer to our commission structure on our pricing page for more information.

• Embed code: Select one of the 5 predefined styles and embed the code shown next to it into your website. This allows you to display your edudip Market listings in an iframe on your own website.
• Link to the webinar landing page: Direct potential attendees to the webinar landing page, where the focus is on registering for the webinar.
• My referral link (affiliate link): Your personal affiliate link. You can also share this directly on Twitter, Facebook, or Xing.

After completing these steps, you can now join the webinar room and start the webinar, or you can join the webinar room at the specified seminar period.