Patent Publication Number: US-11036348-B2

Title: User interaction determination within a webinar system

Description:
BACKGROUND 
     Webinar systems are web-based, video and/or voice conferencing systems that allow an audience of users to view content of a webinar, such as a slide presentation, video, chalkboard, listen to a presentation, and so forth. Webinar systems may provide content as part of the webinar in a live fashion in which a host (e.g., an administrator, teacher, or presenter) is connected over a network to the users of the webinar, who may ask questions to the host in real time. Webinar systems may also provide content as part of the webinar in an on-demand fashion, in which pre-recorded content is broadcast from a server computing device to a user device of a user of the webinar at the convenience of the user. 
     Webinars hosted by a webinar system may include tens, hundreds, and in some cases even thousands of participants. Conventional webinar systems, however, are unable to support a variety of insights that may be gained due to limitations of these systems in obtaining information about users that participate in the webinar. For instance, conventional webinar systems are limited to a list of attendees of the webinar. Therefore, conventional webinar systems that rely on such a list to support other functionality, such as to generate sales leads, may fail for their intended purpose. For example, some users may simply participate in a webinar for educational purposes, and have no intent on purchasing products or services related to the webinar. Therefore, these users represent poor sales leads that are “dead ends” that result in inefficient use of resources of a digital marketing system to pursue these dead ends, such as by contacting the users via phone, email, advertisement, and so forth, and thus results in inefficient use of both computational and network resources and inefficient user interaction. 
     SUMMARY 
     Webinar user interaction determination techniques and systems are described. A computing device, such as a server computing device implemented in a cloud-based system in one example, implements a webinar system that receives data from user devices to monitor user interactions with content communicated within the webinar. This may be used to support a wide variety of functionality, such as to determine which interactive elements (e.g., surveys) are to be output as part of content of the webinar to user devices (e.g., based on amounts of user interaction) and also which users of the user devices are potential sales leads based on responses received via the interactive elements as part of the webinar. 
     In one example, an administrator (e.g., an author of the webinar) defines the interactive elements to be exposed on user devices as part of the webinar, and provides the interactive elements to the webinar system. Additionally or alternatively, the webinar system may generate the interactive elements automatically during the webinar, such as based on content of the webinar or a user&#39;s response to a previously-exposed interactive element. The webinar system may cause display of the interactive elements on the user devices at any suitable time during the webinar, such as based on an elapsed amount of time, an amount of webinar content exposed (e.g., every three slides), a user&#39;s engagement level in the webinar, and the like. 
     The webinar system, for instance, may be configured to maintain a pipeline of the interactive elements presented to each user via the user&#39;s computing device, and assign levels in the pipeline to the users based on the user responses and the interactive elements. For example, the pipeline may indicate a level for a user based on the number of responses to interactive elements provided by the user, so that a first user who responds more than a second user is assigned a higher level in the pipeline than the second user. The webinar system then determines users of the webinar as sales leads, automatically and without user intervention, based on the levels for the users in the pipeline, such as by selecting the users having levels in the pipeline greater than a level depth threshold. 
     Accordingly, the webinar system identifies sales leads as users of the webinar who demonstrate an interest in the webinar based on their responses to the interactive elements, rather than simply based on attendance in the webinar as limited by conventional webinar systems, and is thus more efficient than conventional webinar systems. Hence, the webinar system identifies high-quality sales leads who have a high likelihood of purchasing a product of the webinar, and may do so for a multitude of participants in real time, which is not possible by a human user of conventional webinar systems. 
     This Summary introduces a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. As such, this Summary is not intended to identify essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The detailed description is described with reference to the accompanying figures. In the figures, the left-most digit(s) of a reference number identifies the figure in which the reference number first appears. The use of the same reference numbers in different instances in the description and the figures may indicate similar or identical items. Entities represented in the figures may be indicative of one or more entities and thus reference may be made interchangeably to single or plural forms of the entities in the discussion. 
         FIG. 1  illustrates a digital medium environment in an example implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein. 
         FIG. 2  illustrates an example system in an example implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein. 
         FIG. 3  illustrates a flow diagram depicting an example procedure in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 4  illustrates a digital medium environment in an example implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein. 
         FIG. 5  illustrates an example placement of interactive elements in a webinar in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 6  illustrates an example user interface in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 7  illustrates an example user interface in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 8  illustrates an example user interface in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. 
         FIG. 9  illustrates an example system including various components of an example device that can be implemented as any type of computing device as described and/or utilized with reference to  FIGS. 1-8  to implement aspects of the techniques described herein. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     Overview 
     Webinar systems may be used to provide a wide variety of content as part of a webinar to a wide range of user devices disposed across a wide range of geographic locations. The webinar, for instance, may include content such as a slide presentation, audio, or video, and provide the content to the users of the user devices over the Internet. A webinar may be live (e.g., the users of the webinar may communicate with a host of the webinar in real time during the webinar), or on-demand (e.g., the webinar system may provide pre-recorded webinar content to users at any suitable time for the users). As previously described, conventional webinar systems support limited functionality regarding information that may be learned from users participating in the webinar. As such, conventional webinar systems are unable to track user interaction with content of the webinar in real time (which is not possible by a human user), and may miss valuable insights gained from this monitored user interaction. This problem may be further exacerbated by the tens, hundreds, and even thousands of users that may participate in a webinar via respective user devices using a multitude of different interactive elements. 
     Accordingly, systems, devices, and techniques are described for monitoring user interaction as part of a webinar. This functionality may be used to support a variety of functionalities. In one example, this functionality is used to determine sales leads within a webinar to control output of content (e.g., digital marketing content such as advertisements), interactive elements, and so on to user devices of users who participate in the webinar. The webinar system, for instance, may receive data that is generated based on monitored user interaction, such as user responses to interactive elements exposed during the webinar. From this data, the webinar system may gain an ability to distinguish users of the webinar who are likely to purchase a product from users of the webinar who are not likely to purchase a product. This ability is simply not possible with conventional webinar systems that rely solely on a list of attendees to determine sales leads, nor is it possible to be performed by a human user in real time when confronted by the tens, hundreds, and even thousands of users that may interact with a multitude of different interactive elements as part of the webinar. 
     The webinar system, for instance, may expose interactive elements during a webinar on user devices as part of the webinar. Examples of interactive elements include a question, a poll, a chat, an offer, a reward, combinations thereof, and the like. In one example, an administrator (e.g., an author or presenter of the webinar) defines the interactive elements to be exposed during the webinar, and provides the interactive elements to the webinar system to control exposure of these elements. For instance, the interactive elements may be pre-determined by the administrator prior to the webinar being viewed by users. 
     Additionally or alternatively, the webinar system may generate the interactive elements during the webinar, e.g., based on content of the webinar. For instance, the webinar may include content (e.g., a slide) regarding a type of automobile. From this, the webinar system generates a question for users of the webinar based on the type of automobile in the slide, such as “Would you like to see the specification sheet for this car?” Additionally or alternatively, the webinar system may generate the interactive elements during the webinar based on a user&#39;s previously-received response, such as to a previously-exposed interactive element. For instance, the user may enter a vote in a poll via a respective user device indicating the user prefers Italian sports cars over German sports cars. From this, the webinar system generates a question for the user with a link to content about Italian sports cars, such as “Would you like to learn more about the advantages of Italian sports cars over German sports cars? Click here”. 
     The webinar system may also include a user profile module that maintains user profiles. The user profile, for instance, may include a history of webinars viewed by a user, include a user&#39;s responses to interactive elements in a previous webinar, specify user&#39;s preferences, a user&#39;s location, a purchase history of the user, and so on. The webinar system then selects the interactive elements for exposure on based on the user profile. For instance, the webinar system may present written questions to a respective user device in a language specified by the user profile. In one example, the user profile module is configured to update the user profiles based on user responses received during a webinar in response to interactive elements exposed on user devices. 
     The webinar system may control exposure of the interactive elements on the user devices in a variety of ways as part of the webinar. In one example, the webinar system exposes interactive elements on user devices of the webinar based on an elapsed amount of time. The webinar system, for instance, may define a threshold amount of time (e.g., 90 seconds) as part of a timeline to control exposure interactive element on the user devices. 
     Additionally or alternatively, the webinar system may expose interactive elements on user devices based on an amount of content presented via the user device as part of the webinar. For instance, the webinar system may specify a threshold amount of content (e.g., three slides) of the webinar for exposure over a period of time before the webinar system exposes another interactive element on the user device. 
     In one example, the webinar system includes an interaction monitoring module to determine amounts of user interaction that occurs via respective user devices as part of the webinar. The interaction monitoring module, for instance, may receive data from respective user devices. Based on this data, the interaction monitoring module monitors device interactions reflecting user interactions with content of the webinar as part of the webinar, such as minimizing or maximizing a user interface that exposes the webinar, turning on or off a sound device, rewinding a part of the webinar, rearrangement of content within the webinar, pausing a topic of the webinar, and the like. From this, the interaction monitoring module determines engagement scores for the users of the webinar that indicate an amount of user interaction (i.e., a user&#39;s level of engagement or participation) in the webinar. 
     The webinar system may then determine which interactive elements are to be communicated for exposure on a user device based on the engagement scores. For instance, for users having an engagement score in a threshold range of engagement scores (e.g., between 0.25 and 0.75 for engagement scores normalized between zero and one), the webinar system may determine that the users are at least partially engaged with content of the webinar and select an interactive element to present to the users via their user devices automatically and without user intervention, such as by exposing a trial offer for a product of the webinar on the user devices. For users having an engagement score below the range of engagement scores (e.g., less than 0.25), the webinar system may determine that the users are not engaged with content of the webinar and may not present an interactive element on the user devices of these users. 
     Additionally or alternatively, the webinar system exposes interactive elements as part of the content on user devices at a rate based on the engagement scores determined by the interaction monitoring module. For instance, the webinar system may expose interactive elements on user devices of users with higher engagement scores with greater frequency (e.g., more often) than on user devices of users with lower engagement scores. 
     In one example of controlling output of the interactive elements, the webinar system maintains a pipeline of the interactive elements presented to each user via their user device, and assigns levels to the users based on the user responses and the interactive elements. For instance, the pipeline may indicate a level for a user based on the number of responses to interactive elements provided by the user. Hence, a first user who responds more than a second user to the interactive elements is assigned a higher level in the pipeline than the second user. Accordingly, the webinar system funnels users of the webinar through the pipeline based on the user responses to the interactive elements. 
     When a user fails to respond to an interactive element, the webinar system may freeze the level of the user in the pipeline, so that the user is not propagated through the pipeline. In one example, the webinar system ascertains whether user responses affirm or do not affirm a desired engagement with an interactive element. For instance, a user may provide a response that they are not interested in offers presented in interactive elements. In this case, the webinar system may freeze the level of the user in the pipeline to a current level, and cease to provide interactive elements to the user device of that user, thus improving operational efficiency of the webinar system. 
     Because different user devices may receive different interactive elements from the webinar system, the pipeline for each user represents a respective branch on a tree, and the length of the branch may indicate the level of the user. The webinar system may then determine which users of the webinar are to be considered as sales leads based on the levels for the users in the pipeline (e.g., the length of the branch for the user). For instance, the webinar system may select the users having levels in the pipeline greater than a level depth threshold as sales leads (e.g., at least a level of seven). In one example, the webinar system selects the users of the webinar who have the highest level in the pipeline as the sales leads. For instance, the webinar system determines at least some of the users as sales leads based on the at least some of the users having a highest number of responses to the interactive elements among users of the webinar. 
     In one example, the webinar system determines classes of the users based on the levels in the pipeline. The classes can correspond to ranges of levels (e.g., a first class may corresponds to level ten and higher, a second level may correspond to levels seven—nine, and a third level may correspond to levels five and six). The webinar system may also grade the sales leads based on the class that includes the users. For instance, users of the first class may be graded by the webinar system with an A-grade, users of the second class with a B-grade, and users of the third class with a C-grade. The webinar system may provide the sales leads to sales teams based on the grades. For example, the webinar system may provide A-grade sales leads to a sales team with a highest seniority (e.g., years of sales experience), and the C-grade sales leads to a sales team with a lowest seniority. 
     Accordingly, the webinar system can identify sales leads as users of the webinar who demonstrate an interest in the product of the webinar based on their responses to the interactive elements. Rather than simply provide an attendee list of the webinar as a sales lead list, the webinar system can explicitly omit users of the webinar as sales leads when the users are not likely or are uninterested in purchasing a product of the webinar. Hence, the webinar system identifies high-quality sales leads who have a high likelihood of purchasing a product of the webinar, and is thus more efficient than conventional webinar systems. 
     Term Examples 
     “Amount of user interaction” describes any suitable measure of user interaction with a computing device or content exposed by the computing device as part of a webinar. Examples include a number of user responses supplied by a user in response to interactive elements displayed as part of a webinar on a user device, a number of chats a user participates in during a webinar, a number of slides of a webinar viewed by a user, a number of attendees of a webinar that a participant communicates with during a webinar, combinations thereof, and the like. A webinar system, for instance, may quantify an amount of user interaction for a user by assigning an engagement score to a user that reflects a level of participation in a webinar on behalf of the user. 
     “Content” output as part of a webinar includes content of a webinar presented to user devices as part of the webinar, such as a slide presentation, video, interactive chalkboard, web page, map, document, etc. 
     “Content threshold” describes any suitable amount of content that can be used to determine when to display an interactive element on a user device as part of a webinar. For instance, a content threshold may be set to a value of three slides so that at least three slides are exposed during a webinar to a user via the user&#39;s device between interactive elements displayed to the user on a computing device. 
     “Device interactions” describe interactions that reflect user interactions with a user&#39;s device. Examples of user interactions include adjustment of a screen size (e.g., minimizing or maximizing a user interface that displays webinar content), adjusting a volume of a speaker on the computing device that broadcasts audio content of a webinar, enabling or disabling a function or application, such as disabling a chat window of a webinar application, typing of text in a user interface, and the like. 
     “Digital medium environment” describes any combination of the various computing devices and resources that can be utilized to implement the techniques, systems, and devices described herein. For instance, a digital medium environment may include at least one or more client computing devices, a network, and one or more server computing devices. 
     “Engagement score” describes any measure of a user&#39;s participation in a webinar and may be determined based on any suitable data, such as data representing user actions during a webinar (e.g., how often a user replays webinar content, whether a user has disabled sound at the user&#39;s computing device, etc.). In one example, an engagement score is normalized between zero and one, where zero represents little or no participation in the webinar, and one represents high or total participation in the webinar. 
     “Interactive element” describes any suitable element that can be provided during a webinar to a computing device operated by a user of the webinar for which the user can provide a response. For instance, interactive elements may be displayed on a computing device to present the interactive elements to a user of the computing device, and the user may enter a response to the interactive elements into the computing device. Examples of interactive elements include a poll, a chat, a quiz, a discussion, a request for confirmation, a request for information, a question, an offer, a reward, and the like. Examples of responses include text entered by a user, a selection of an option exposed in a user interface, a spoken response (e.g., user speech), a file uploaded by a user, etc. 
     “Levels” describe stages of a pipeline through which users of a webinar may be propagated based on the users&#39; responses to interactive elements exposed during the webinar Each level can correspond to a respective stage of the pipeline. 
     “Level depth threshold” describes a number of stages or levels of a pipeline, such as ten, and may be used to determine a user as a sales lead. For instance, when a level in a pipeline assigned to a user is greater than the level depth threshold, the user may be determined to be a sales lead. 
     “Pipeline” describes any chain of stages through which any suitable data may be propagated to represent user responses to interactive elements during a webinar. For instance, a pipeline may represent a chain of stages through which a user is propagated during a webinar, and a current stage of the pipeline may indicate a level of the user representing a current number of the user&#39;s responses to interactive elements during the webinar. Hence, as a user responds to more interactive elements during the webinar, the user is propagated through the pipeline. 
     “Response” describes any user response to an interactive element exposed during a webinar, such as text supplied by a user, a user selection (e.g., confirmation of an option exposed in an interactive element), an answer to a quiz, and the like. 
     “Sales lead” describes a user representing a potential customer who may be interested in purchasing a product related to a webinar. 
     “Sales team” describes any person or persons who receive a sales lead and provide any suitable offer to the sales lead to entice them to purchase a product, such as by sending an advertisement to the sales lead (e.g., a coupon for a product), contacting the sales lead via email or phone call, and the like. 
     “User” describes any user who attends a webinar and may view or consume content of the webinar. Examples of users of a webinar can include students, employees, attendees of a church, online viewers, etc., who may participate in a webinar in real-time or on-demand. For instance, a pastor of a church may present a Mass or church service as an online webinar to a global church congregation. 
     “User profile” describes any data regarding a user of a webinar, such as a history of webinars viewed by a user, a user&#39;s responses to interactive elements in a previous webinar, a user&#39;s preferences, likes, dislikes, a user location, a purchase history of the user, occupation, etc. 
     “Webinar” describes a web-based, video and/or audio conference hosted by a webinar system that allow an audience of users to view and/or listen to content of the webinar in a live manner, on-demand, or combinations thereof. A presenter of a webinar may use a server device to provide content of a webinar to a plurality of user devices over a network, such as the Internet, and attendees may consume the content on the user devices. Content of the webinar may include videos, audio clips, presentation slides, maps, web pages, artworks, documents, etc. Attendees may participate in the webinar by not only consuming the content, but also asking questions to the presenter, answering questions on a quiz included in the webinar, communicating to other participants in the webinar via a chat, entering user selections in a poll, and the like. A webinar can include any suitable information and be for any suitable purpose, such as including educational information as part of a course or class, including product information as part of a marketing campaign, or including business information as part of a corporate meeting. Examples of systems that host webinars include Adobe® Connect, Coursera, EverWebinar, WebinarJam, GoToWebinar, WebEx, Demio, Zoom, and ClickMeeting. 
     “Webinar system” describes a platform that hosts webinars, such as Adobe® Connect, Coursera, EverWebinar, WebinarJam, GoToWebinar, WebEx, Demio, Zoom, and ClickMeeting. A webinar system may provide webinar content during a webinar form a server device to a plurality of user devices, which expose the webinar content to users of the webinar. 
     In the following discussion an example digital medium environment is described that may employ the techniques described herein. Example implementation details and procedures are then described which may be performed in the example digital medium environment as well as other environments. Consequently, performance of the example procedures is not limited to the example environment and the example environment is not limited to performance of the example procedures. 
     Example Digital Medium Environment 
       FIG. 1  is an illustration of a digital medium environment  100  in an example implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein. As used herein, the term “digital medium environment” refers to the various computing devices and resources that can be utilized to implement the described techniques. The illustrated digital medium environment  100  includes a user device  102  that can be operated by a user of a webinar (e.g., a participant of a webinar). Generally, the user device  102  can be any suitable computing device, such as a mobile phone, tablet, laptop computer, desktop computer, gaming device, goggles, glasses, wearable device (e.g., a wristband, watch, or headband), camera, digital assistant, echo device, navigation device, home appliance, copier, scanner, test and measurement equipment, vehicle computing system, and the like. Hence, user device  102  may range from a full resource device with substantial memory and processor resources (e.g., personal computers, game consoles) to a low-resource device with limited memory or processing resources (e.g., mobile devices). 
     Furthermore, user device  102  may be representative of one or a plurality of different devices, such as one or more devices connected to a network that perform operations “over the cloud” as further described in relation to  FIG. 9 . In one example, user device  102  includes a plurality of computing devices communicatively coupled to each other, such as with a low power wireless communication standard (e.g., a Bluetooth® protocol). For instance, user device  102  may include a smart phone and a tablet coupled to one another (not shown in  FIG. 1  for clarity). 
     The user device  102  includes a user webinar application  104  to allow a user to participate in an online webinar whose content can be exposed in a user interface  106  on the user device  102 . Accordingly, the user device  102  is connected to network  108 . Network  108  may include a variety of networks, such as the Internet, an intranet, local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), personal area network (PAN), cellular networks, terrestrial networks, satellite networks, combinations of networks, and the like, and as such may be wired, wireless, or a combination thereof. Network  108  communicatively couples user device  102  with server  110 . 
     Server  110  can include any suitable number of servers, and may be representative of one or a plurality of different devices. Server  110  includes webinar system  112  to determine user interaction within the webinar, and sales leads from the user interaction. For instance, webinar system  112  includes webinar application  114  which includes user interaction monitoring system  116  usable to monitor device interactions reflecting user interactions during a webinar, such as user interactions with content of the webinar exposed on the user device  102 . Based on amounts of user interactions determined by user interaction monitoring system  116 , the sales lead determination module  118  may determine one or more users of the webinar as sales leads. 
     For example, webinar system  112  incudes resources  120  that may provide webinar content  122 , such as video, audio, a slideshow, and so forth, and interactive elements  124  to the user device  102 . The interactive elements  124  can include any suitable interactive element, such as a question, poll, chat, offer, and the like. Interactive element  126  exposed in user interface  106  is an example of interactive elements  124  that can be provided to the user device  102  by the webinar system  112 . The interactive element  126  prompts a user of the webinar to enter an email address in order to get a 30 day trial offer of a service or product related to the webinar. The user interaction monitoring system  116  of the webinar system  112  monitors device interactions reflecting user interactions during the webinar by obtaining interaction data  128 , which can include any suitable data regarding device interactions reflecting user interaction during the webinar. Examples of which include an email address that a user enters in the interactive element  126 , a window of user interface  106  exposing webinar content  122  that is maximized or minimized by a user, an indication of a part of the webinar content  122  that is paused or re-played by a user, etc. From this, the sales lead determination module  118  can then determine whether the user as a sales lead, and provide an offer, e.g., a coupon, to the user via the user device  102  to entice the user to purchase a product or service related to the webinar, or any other sort of digital content or digital marketing content. 
     User Interaction Determination within a Webinar 
       FIG. 2  illustrates a system  200  in an example implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein, and  FIG. 3  illustrates a procedure  300  in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. Aspects of the procedure may be implemented in hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof. The procedure is shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks.  FIG. 2  and  FIG. 3  are next described together, with references made to the modules of  FIG. 2  that may implement the operations of  FIG. 3 . 
       FIG. 2  illustrates example data flow of the system  200 , which includes user device  202  having a user webinar application  204  that is in communication with another webinar application  206 . User device  202  is an example of the user device  102  in  FIG. 1 , and user webinar application  204  is an example of the user webinar application  104  in  FIG. 1 . Webinar application  206  is an example of webinar application  114  in  FIG. 1 . 
     In the illustrated example, webinar application  206  includes webinar content module  208  that provides webinar content  210  to user device  202 . For instance, a user of user device  202  may subscribe to a webinar system or service including a webinar system that uses webinar content module  208  to output the content (illustrated as webinar content  210 ) to the user device  202  (block  302 ). The webinar application  206  also includes a user interaction monitoring system  212  to receive interaction data  214  from the user device  202 . Interaction data  214  can include device interactions reflecting user interactions with the webinar content  210  on the user device  202 . User interaction monitoring system  212  is an example of user interaction monitoring system  116  in  FIG. 1 , and includes interaction monitoring module  216 , interactive element module  218 , user response module  220 , user interaction determination module  222 , and sales lead determination module  224 . 
     Interaction monitoring module  216  receives interaction data  214  (e.g., via network  108  and/or locally at the webinar system  112 ) to monitor device interactions reflecting user interactions with the webinar content  210  on user devices as part of the webinar (block  304 ). Interaction data  214  may include any suitable data regarding device interactions reflecting user interactions with content of the webinar, such as answers to quizzes of the webinar provided by the users, text of chats in the webinar, questions asked by users of the webinar, an amount of time or frequency users pause on content of the webinar, and so forth. 
     Interaction monitoring module  216  then determines amounts of user interaction, respectively, for the users of the user devices based on the monitored device interactions (block  306 ). For instance, interaction monitoring module  216  may determine the amounts of user interaction for the users with the content by computing respective engagement scores  226  for the users that indicate amounts of participation or engagement in the webinar, such as a number of discussions, chats, or polls the users participate in. The interaction monitoring module  216  then provides the determined amounts of user interaction to the interactive element module  218 , such as by providing engagement scores  226  to the interactive element module  218  via an API. 
     The interactive element module  218  then determines which interactive element  228  to send to the user devices and present to the users for rendering, such as an offer or question, and outputs the interactive elements to at least one user device as part of the webinar based on the determined amounts of user interaction (block  308 ). For instance, the interactive element module  218  may make the determination based on user devices operated by users that have an amount of user interaction above a threshold amount. As an example, the interactive element module  218  may determine a first interactive element to output to user devices of users having an engagement score above a first engagement threshold (e.g., 0.4 in a range of zero to one), and a second interactive element to output to other user devices of users having an engagement score above a second engagement threshold (e.g., 0.7 in a range of zero to one). 
     User response module  220  then receives responses to the interactive elements (block  310 ). For instance, interaction data  214  received from user webinar application  204  may also include user responses to the interactive elements output to the user devices, such as an email address entered in an interactive element, a confirmation of a selection of an option in an interactive element, an affirmation or declination to receive additional interactive elements, and so forth. User response module  220  collects the user responses as part of generating response data  230 , such as text of the user responses, a time delay from when an interactive element was output to a user device to when the user responded to the interactive element, and the like. User response module  220  provides the response data  230  to the user interaction determination module  222 , e.g., via a respective API. 
     The user interaction determination module  222  and sales lead determination module  224  may then work together to determine a sales lead based on the responses (block  312 ). The user interaction determination module  222 , for instance, receives the response data  230 , and based on the user responses indicated by the response data  230 , generates interaction determination data  232 . The interaction determination data  232  is then used by the sales lead determination module  224  to generate sales lead data  234 . For instance, based on the user responses to the interactive elements, the user interaction determination module  222  can propagate the users through a pipeline and assign levels in the pipeline to the users based on the number of user responses to the interactive elements received by user response module  220 . Hence, the user interaction determination module  222  funnels users who demonstrate an interest in the webinar by responding to the interactive elements through the pipeline, while freezing a level in the pipeline for non-responsive users. The interaction determination data  232  indicates a respective level in the pipeline for the users of the webinar that is used to control output of interactive elements to the users, and more particularly user devices associated with the users. 
     The sales lead determination module  224  receives the interaction determination data  232  from the user interaction determination module  222 , and from this generates sales lead data  234 . The sale lead data  234  indicates one or more users of the webinar as sales leads. For instance, the sales lead determination module  224  may determine users having a highest level of interaction according to the interaction determination data  232  as sales leads, and identify these users in the sales lead data  234 . The sales lead determination module  224  may also determine classes of the users based on the levels assigned to the users in the interaction determination data  232 . A higher-rated class may correspond to the group of users having levels according to the interaction determination data  232  above a first depth level threshold, and a lower-rated class may correspond to another group of users having levels according to the interaction determination data  232  above a second depth level threshold but below the first depth level threshold. Hence, the sales lead data  234  may identify some of the users of the webinar as sales leads, and include a class or rating for the users. 
     The sales lead determination module  224  may provide the sales lead data  234  to one or more sales teams, who may then contact the users indicated in the sales lead data  234  to try to persuade the users to purchase a product or service related to the webinar In one example, the sales lead determination module  224  sends an offer automatically and without user intervention to the users indicated in the sales lead data  234 , such as a coupon to purchase a product or service related to the webinar. 
     Pipeline and User Profile Control of Interactive Elements within a Webinar 
       FIG. 4  is an illustration of a digital medium environment  400  in an example implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein using a pipeline to control output of interactive elements to user devices as part of a webinar. The illustrated digital medium environment  400  includes a user  402  (e.g., a user of a webinar) operating a computing device  404 , i.e., the user device  102 . Hence, the computing device  404  may be representative of one or a plurality of different devices, such as one or more devices connected to a network that perform operations “over the cloud” as further described in relation to  FIG. 9 , or a plurality of computing devices communicatively coupled to each other, such as with a low power wireless communication standard (e.g., a Bluetooth® protocol). 
     User  402  is illustrated proximate to computing device  404  to indicate that user  402  is operating computing device  404  as part of an online webinar in this example. Accordingly, the computing device  404  includes user webinar application  406  to allow the user  402  to participate in the online webinar via network  408  via device interactions with the computing device  303 . User webinar application  406  is an example of user webinar application  104 , and network  408  is an example of network  108  in  FIG. 1 . 
     Administrator  414  operates computing device  416 , which is also communicatively coupled to the webinar system  412  via the network  408 . Administrator  414  may be an author or presenter of the webinar, and may provide webinar content and a definition of interactive elements for exposure during the webinar to webinar system  412 , which is an example of webinar system  112  in  FIG. 1 . In one example, administrator  414  presents content of the webinar to user  402  via webinar system  412  in a live fashion. Hence, during the webinar, user  402  may ask questions to the administrator  414 , who may answer the questions asked by the user  402 . Additionally or alternatively, during the webinar, administrator  414  may ask questions to the user  402 , who may answer the questions asked by the administrator  414 . For instance, the administrator  414  may call on the user  402  to write on an electronic chalkboard as part of the webinar, so the writings of the user  402  can be shared with other users of the webinar. Additionally or alternatively, administrator  414  may provide webinar content and a definition of interactive elements to webinar system  412  at one time, and user  402  may view the webinar on demand, such as at a different time. Hence, administrator  414  and user  402  may or may not access webinar system  412  at the same time, such as during a webinar. 
     Using user webinar application  406 , computing device  404  exposes user interface  418 . User webinar application  406  and user interface  418  are examples of user webinar application  104  and user interface  418  in  FIG. 1 , respectively. User interface  418  displays webinar content  420  and an interactive element  422 , which are provided to user webinar application  406  from webinar system  412 . The interactive element  422  may be configured in a variety of ways, such as a question, a poll, a chat, an offer, etc. User responses to interactive elements are provided to webinar system  412 . For instance, interactive element  422  may include a prompt to enter an email address, and the user response provided from computing device  404  to webinar system  412  may include text representing the email address. 
     User interface  418  also includes pipeline  424  that exposes a representation  426  of interactive element  422 , as well as representations  428  of previously-displayed interactive elements in user interface  418 . For instance, representation  426  is illustrated at the N th  level of pipeline  424  to denote that it represents the most recent interactive element for which user  402  has responded, whereas representations  428  are illustrated in the previous N-1 st  levels of the pipeline  424  to denote that they represent past interactive elements exposed in user interface  418  for which the user  402  has previously responded. 
     Webinar system  412  may maintain a pipeline similar to pipeline  424  for each user of the webinar. The webinar system  412  acts to funnel users of the webinar through the pipeline based on their responses to the interactive elements. For example, when a user ceases to respond to interactive elements in the user interface, the user is no longer propagated through the pipeline and their level is fixed. The webinar system  412  may determine sales leads from the levels of the users in the pipeline. For instance, webinar system  412  can require that a user have at least a level “N” in the pipeline to qualify as a sales lead, in which case user  402  would be determined as a sales lead. However, a user achieving only a level N-2 may not be included as a sales lead in this example. 
     In one example, the webinar system  412  contacts the users, via respective user devices, that are determined to be sales leads to entice the users to purchase a product. For instance, the webinar system  412  may send an email message to sales leads including an offer or coupon, such as a discount on the product of purchase or a different product (e.g., a discount on a cruise ship when a tool is purchased). The webinar system  412  may automatically and without user intervention send a communication to the sales leads identified by the webinar system  412 , such as an advertisement, coupon, discount offer, and the like. 
     In one example, the webinar system  412  is configured as an application protocol interface (API) that can be licensed by webinar providers, such as Coursera, edX, Adobe Connect, WebEx, Skype, GoToMeeting™, and the like. Moreover, though webinar system  412  is illustrated in  FIG. 4  as included in server  410 , webinar system  412  can be implemented on any suitable device or devices. For instance, webinar system  412  may be implemented by server  410 , computing device  404 , computing device  416 , or combinations thereof. Accordingly, user webinar application  406  may include a copy of webinar system  412 . Moreover, computing device  416  may include a copy of webinar system  412 . 
     Server  410  is an example of server  110  in  FIG. 1 , and includes webinar system  412  and webinar application  448  (discussed below in more detail) to monitor device interactions on user devices reflecting user interactions with the webinar content, determine amounts of user interaction within a webinar based on the device interactions, and determine sales leads from the amounts of user interaction. Webinar system  412  also includes processors  430 , which can include any suitable number and any suitable type of processor, such as a graphics processing unit, central processing unit, digital signal processor, processor core, combinations thereof, and the like. In one example, webinar system  412  is implemented at least partially by storing instructions on storage  432  (e.g., a computer-readable storage medium) and executing the instructions on processors  430  included in webinar system  412 . For instance, processors  430  may execute portions of webinar application  448 . 
     Webinar system  412  includes storage  432 , which can be any suitable type of storage accessible by or contained in webinar system  412 . Storage  432  stores data in memory, and provides access to and from memory included in storage  432  for any suitable type of data. For instance, storage  432  includes profile data  434 , including data associated with user profiles for users of a webinar, such as user profiles, a history of webinars viewed by a user, a user&#39;s responses to interactive elements in a previous webinar, a user&#39;s preferences, likes, dislikes, a user location, a purchase history of the user, and the like. 
     Storage  432  also includes interaction data  436 , including data regarding a user&#39;s interaction in a webinar, such as device interactions reflecting user interactions with the webinar content on user. Interaction data  436  can include any data indicative of user actions during a webinar, such as an engagement score, minimizing or maximizing a user interface that exposes the webinar, turning on or off a sound device, rewinding a part of the webinar, pausing a topic of the webinar, answering a quiz during the webinar, entering a selection in a poll of the webinar, entering text in a chat of the webinar, and the like. 
     Storage  432  also includes webinar data  438 , including data regarding a webinar, such as webinar content, interactive elements, a representation of a neural network (e.g., configuration and convolutional weights) used to determine an interactive element, and an indicator of a type of interactive element (e.g., a quiz, poll, chat, question, etc.). Webinar data  438  may also include thresholds used to determine when to expose an interactive element in a webinar, such as a content threshold. Webinar data  438  may also include timestamps of a timeline of a webinar at which interactive elements are exposed to users. 
     Storage  432  also includes response data  440 , including data regarding user responses, such as text of a user response, a time it takes for a user to respond to an interactive element (e.g., a delay in the user response), an indicator of whether a user response affirms or does not affirm desired engagement with an interactive element, and a number of user responses for each user during a webinar. Response data  440  may also include statistics regarding user responses, such as how other users responded to an interactive element, a mean user response, a variance in numerical values of user responses, how many users responded to an interactive element, how many users did not respond to an interactive element, and the like. 
     Storage  432  also includes sales lead data  442 , including data regarding sales leads, such as users determined by webinar system  412  to be sales leads, users of a webinar determined by webinar system  412  not to be sales leads, levels of users in a pipeline, and thresholds used to determined sales leads, such as a level depth threshold. Sales lead data  442  may also include classes of sales leads, such as graded sales leads (e.g., an A-class for users with a highest level in the pipeline and a B-class for users with a second-highest level in the pipeline). Sales lead data  442  may also include statistics of the sales leads, such as how many users of a webinar are selected as sales leads and how many users of the webinar are not selected as the sales leads, an average level in the pipeline for users of the webinar, how many users achieved different levels in the pipeline, and the like. 
     Webinar system  412  also includes transceiver module  444 , which is representative of functionality configured to transmit and receive data using any suitable type and number of communication protocols. For instance, data within webinar system  412  (e.g., components of a user interface, such as webinar content and interactive elements) may be transmitted to computing device  404  with transceiver module  444  over network  408 . Furthermore, data can be received from computing device  404  with transceiver module  444 , such as user actions indicating engagement levels, user responses to interactive elements, and the like. In one example, transceiver module  444  communicates packetized data. 
     Webinar system  412  also includes user interface (UI) module  446 , which is representative of functionality configured to generate, manage, and cause display of any suitable user interface, such as user interface  418 . User interface module  446  can cause display of a user interface on any suitable computing device, such as computing device  404 , computing device  416 , and server  410 . In one example, user interface module  446  provides user interface data (e.g., components of a user interface) to a computing device, such as computing device  404 , which renders the data in a user interface. For instance, user interface module  446  may provide webinar content (e.g., webinar content  420 ) and interactive elements (e.g., interactive element  422 ) to user webinar application  406  of computing device  404 , which exposes the webinar content and interactive elements in a user interface (e.g., user interface  418 ). Accordingly, user webinar application  406  and user interface module  446  may work together to cause display of a user interface on a computing device, such as computing device  404 . 
     In one example, user interface module  446  provides data to be exposed in a pipeline of a user interface, such as pipeline  424 . For instance, user interface module  446  may provide a history of interactive elements exposed to a user during a webinar, previous user responses to the interactive elements, representations of levels in the pipeline  424 , representations of interactive elements (e.g., thumbnail images), and combinations thereof. These items may be exposed in a pipeline of a user interface maintained or generated by user interface module  446  (e.g., user interface  418 ). Additionally or alternatively, the user interface module  446  can be configured to cause display of representations of the interactive elements in a pipeline having stages corresponding to levels assigned to the users. Each stage may expose a representation of an interactive element in an order in which the interactive elements are displayed to a user. 
     A user interface of user interface module  446  can expose any suitable control options, such as options for selecting a webinar, including lists of webinars, options for selecting any suitable parameter used by webinar system  412  (e.g., threshold values), and options to enable webinar system  412  to generate sales leads (e.g., an “enable sales lead nurturing” button). A user interface maintained or generated by user interface module  446  may also include options to control playback of a webinar, such as pause, rewind, fast-forward, and loop. 
     A user interface of user interface module  446  can receive any suitable user input. In one example, a user interface of user interface module  446  receives user input including user responses to interactive elements exposed in the user interface. Various types of input devices and input instrumentalities can be used to provide user input via a user interface of user interface module  446 . For example, the user interface can recognize input as being a mouse input, stylus input, touch input, input provided through a natural user interface, and the like. Thus, the user interface can recognize multiple types of gestures including touch gestures and gestures provided through a natural user interface. In one example, the user interface includes speech recognition, identification, and synthesis functionalities, microphones, and speakers that allow computing device  404  to communicate with a user in a conversation, e.g., a user conversation. Accordingly, user input provided to the user interface of user interface module  446  may include any suitable user input, such as text, speech, selections made with a gesture, combinations thereof, and the like. 
     A user interface generated or maintained by user interface module  446 , along with any suitable information, such as configurations settings of the user interface, user gestures (e.g., user inputs), user preferences, interactive elements exposed in a user interface, user selections, user responses, data of a pipeline, webinar content, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by user interface module  446  are stored in storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, user interface module  446  provides webinar content and interactive elements to a client device, such as computing device  404 , which exposes the webinar content and interactive elements in a user interface of user interface module  446 . Additionally or alternatively, user interface module  446  may receive user responses as user input to a user interface of user interface module  446  that is exposed on a client computing device. 
     Webinar system  412  includes webinar application  448 , which is an example of webinar application  114  in  FIG. 1  and webinar application  206  in  FIG. 2 . Webinar application  448  includes the modules of webinar application  206 , e.g., interaction monitoring module  216 , interactive element module  218 , user response module  220 , webinar content module  208 , user interaction determination module  222 , and sales lead determination module  224 , as well as user profile module  450 . These modules work in conjunction with each other to monitor device interactions reflecting user interactions with webinar content on user devices, determine amounts of user interaction within a webinar based on the device interactions, and determine sales leads from the amounts of user interaction. Although generally shown and described as separate modules of the webinar application  448 , any one or combination of the modules may be implemented together as a multi-function module, or independently as components of the webinar application  448 . 
     User profile module  450  is representative of functionality configured to manage user profiles (e.g., as profile data  434 ) for users of webinars. A user profile managed by user profile module  450  can include any suitable data of users of webinars, such as a history of webinars viewed by a user, a user&#39;s responses to interactive elements in a previous webinar, a user&#39;s preferences, likes, dislikes, a user location, a purchase history of the user, a user&#39;s language, a user&#39;s employer or occupation, a user&#39;s marital status, physical attributes of the user, such as age, gender, height, weight, and so on. Webinar system  412  may use the user profiles managed by user profile module  450  to determine interactive elements that are presented to users of a webinar by exposing the interactive elements on user devices operated by the users. 
     In one example, user profile module  450  is configured to update user profiles during a webinar based on data received via a user interface. For instance, user profile module  450  may update the user profile of a user based on user responses received during the webinar to interactive active elements presented to the user by exposing the interactive elements on a user device operated by the user. As an example, text of a user response may indicate a user preference, such as a like of Italian cars over German cars, and this preference may be added to the user profile. Additionally or alternatively, user profile module  450  may update the user profile of a user based on device interactions reflecting user interactions during a webinar, such as an answer to a poll, an answer to a quiz, text of a chat or discussion among users of the webinar, etc. 
     The user profile module  450  can update a user profile at any suitable time. In one example, user profile module  450  accesses, via response data provided by the user response module  220 , user responses collected over the duration of a webinar, and updates a user profile based on the user responses at the end of the webinar (e.g., when the webinar is completed). Additionally or alternatively, the user profile module  450  may update a user profile during a webinar, such as responsive to receiving a user response or response data from the user response module  220 . User profile module  450  may provide a user profile for a current user of the webinar to interactive element module  218 . 
     User profiles managed by user profile module  450 , along with any suitable information, such as user responses, user input (e.g., text of a chat during a webinar), timestamps indicating when a user profile is updated, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by user profile module  450  are stored in profile data  434  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, user profile module  450  obtains user profiles from profile data  434  and provides the user profiles to interactive element module  218 . 
     Interaction monitoring module  216  is representative of functionality configured to determine amounts of user interaction for users of a webinar as described in the previous section. Interaction monitoring module  216  may quantify the amounts of user interaction for users by determining engagement scores for users that represent a level of user engagement, or participation, in a webinar. Interaction monitoring module  216  can determine an amount of user interaction in any suitable way. In one example, interaction monitoring module  216  receives interaction data, such as data indicating device interactions reflecting user interactions with webinar content on user devices as part of the webinar. The interaction monitoring module  216  may determine engagement scores from the interaction data. For instance, user webinar application  406  can be configured to obtain interaction data for a user of a webinar and transmit the interaction data via network  408  to interaction monitoring module  216 . Interaction data can include any suitable data representing user actions during a webinar. Examples of user actions for users of a webinar that may be represented by interaction data received by interaction monitoring module  216  are included in Table 1. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
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                 Examples of User Actions for Users of a 
               
               
                 Webinar to Determine Engagement Scores 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 User 
                 Screen activeness (e.g., screen in focus and viewable, 
               
               
                   
                 or minimized) 
               
               
                   
                 Sound device switched on or off 
               
               
                   
                 Movement of cursor (e.g., whether user moves cursor to 
               
               
                   
                 chat window during an active chat) 
               
               
                   
                 Participation in polls, quizzes, and chats (e.g., no 
               
               
                   
                 participation, such as no response to poll, quiz, or 
               
               
                   
                 chat; simple participation, such as terse answers (e.g., 
               
               
                   
                 yes/no answers); or active participation, such as 
               
               
                   
                 influencing topics) 
               
               
                   
                 Rate of chat messaging as private (e.g., anonymous), 
               
               
                   
                 public, or both 
               
               
                   
                 Vocal involvement during webinar (e.g., answering a question, 
               
               
                   
                 asking a question, replying when name is spoken) 
               
               
                   
                 Language proficiency in spoken content (e.g., when asking a 
               
               
                   
                 question) or written content (e.g., in a chat) 
               
               
                   
                 Frequency of rewinding content 
               
               
                   
                 Frequency of pausing content 
               
               
                   
                 Playback speed of content (e.g., faster or slower than real time) 
               
               
                   
                 Correctness of answers in quizzes and polls 
               
               
                   
                 Time delay when answering polls, chats, quizzes, and questions 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     Interaction monitoring module  216  may determine a respective engagement score for each user of a webinar. For instance, interaction data representing user actions during a webinar, such as listed in Table 1, for each user can each be assigned a respective weight by interaction monitoring module  216 . An engagement score for a user can be determined from the respective weights for the user, such as by summing the respective weights, averaging the respective weights, forming a weighted combination of values assigned to user actions, and the like. In one example, interaction monitoring module  216  normalizes engagement scores, such as between zero and unity. Engagement scores determined by interaction monitoring module  216  represent amounts of user interaction of users in a webinar. 
     Interaction monitoring module  216  can generate engagement scores for users at any suitable rate, e.g., in real time. In one example, interaction monitoring module  216  determines a new engagement score for each user at predetermined time intervals of a webinar, such as equally-spaced time intervals. An engagement score generated by interaction monitoring module  216  can be based on any suitable time period. For instance, interaction monitoring module  216  may compute an engagement score at a current time interval using weights for users from the current time interval and weights for users from previous time intervals. Accordingly, interaction monitoring module  216  may be configured to update engagement scores of users throughout a webinar based on user actions of the users. 
     Amounts of user interaction determined by interaction monitoring module  216 , along with any suitable information, such as engagement scores, interaction data, user actions, weights assigned by interaction monitoring module  216  to user actions, a time period of a webinar over which an engagement score is calculated, statistics of engagement scores across users of a webinar (e.g., mean, median, mode, variance, maximum, minimum, etc.), combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by interaction monitoring module  216  are stored in interaction data  436  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, interaction monitoring module  216  provides engagement scores of users of a webinar to interactive element module  218 . 
     Interactive element module  218  is representative of functionality configured to determine interactive elements to send to user devices during a webinar to expose the interactive elements to users of the webinar Interactive element module  218  can determine any suitable interactive element for exposure on user devices, such as a question, a poll, a chat, an offer, a reward, combinations thereof, and the like. Interactive element module  218  can also determine an interactive element in any suitable way, such as based on pre-determined interactive elements (e.g., interactive elements defined by an author or presenter of a webinar), interactive elements generated automatically during a webinar by an adaptive model (e.g., a neural network, machine learning model, or artificial intelligence), a level of a user in a pipeline assigned by user interaction determination module  222 , combinations thereof, and the like. 
     In one example, interactive element module  218  generates an interactive element for a user based on a level of the user in a pipeline maintained by user interaction determination module  222 , as indicated by the interaction determination data. For instance, the interactive element module  218  may determine that a user is assigned a highest level in the pipeline among all users of the webinar, and generate an advanced question for the user that requires a higher expertise level to answer than questions of other interactive elements, such as interactive elements provided by an author of the webinar. 
       FIG. 5  illustrates an example placement  500  of interactive elements in a webinar in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. The interactive elements of  FIG. 5  are examples of interactive elements determined and placed in a webinar by interactive element module  218 . For instance, interactive element module  218  can send the interactive elements of  FIG. 5  to a user device that exposes the interactive elements on the user device to present the interactive elements to users of the user devices. 
       FIG. 5  includes timeline  502  of a webinar, which is broken into five sections. In one example, these five sections are equally spaced (e.g., they each include a same amount of time of the timeline  502 ). Interactive elements are placed on the timeline  502  in each of the five sections, and key  504  indicates different types of the interactive elements. For instance, a dark circle encompassed by a circle indicates a question, a dark triangle encompassed by a circle indicates a poll, a dark square encompassed by a circle indicates an offer, and a dark diamond encompassed by a circle indicates a chat. A question, a poll, an offer, and a chat are examples of interactive elements that can be determined by interactive element module  218  to be exposed during a webinar. 
     In the example of  FIG. 5 , interactive element module  218  determines that three interactive elements are placed in the first section of timeline  502 . For instance, interactive element  506  denotes a question towards the beginning of the first section, followed by interactive element  508  denoting another question in the middle of the first section, followed by interactive element  510  denoting a chat towards the end of the first section. The interactive elements  506 ,  508 , and  510  may be pre-determined by an administrator, author, or presenter of the webinar and provided to interactive element module  218  prior to the webinar being viewed by users. For instance, an author of the webinar may define the content of the interactive elements  506 ,  508 , and  510  as well as their placement on the timeline  502 . 
     Additionally or alternatively, interactive element module  218  may generate one or more of the interactive elements during the webinar, such as based on content of the webinar. For instance, the webinar may include a slide regarding a type of automobile, and interactive element module  218  may generate a question for users of the webinar based on the type of automobile in the slide, such as “Would you like to see the specification sheet for this car?” In one example, the interactive element module  218  generates one or more of the interactive elements during the webinar based on a user&#39;s previously-received response. For instance, webinar system  412  may receive a user response to the question of interactive element  508 , and in response, generate the interactive element  510  to be exposed to the user. Accordingly, interactive element module  218  may include an adaptive model, such as a neural network, machine learning model, or artificial intelligence, that has been trained to generate interactive elements based on inputs such as user responses, webinar content, and the like. 
     Interactive element module  218  may assign the interactive elements to the timeline  502  in any suitable way. In one example, interactive element module  218  assigns the interactive elements to the timeline  502  based on user input from an administrator, author, or presenter of a webinar. For instance, an author of the webinar may determine the placement of the interactive elements on the timeline  502  and provide definitions of the placement to the interactive element module  218 . 
     Additionally or alternatively, interactive element module  218  may determine the placement of interactive elements on the timeline  502  based on one or more threshold criteria being satisfied, such as a time threshold, a content threshold, and an engagement threshold. For instance, a time threshold may include an amount of time of the timeline  502 . Hence, interactive element module  218  may require that a threshold amount of time (e.g., 90 seconds) of the timeline  502  has passed since a previous interactive element was exposed to a user before interactive element module  218  exposes another interactive element to the user. Accordingly, the distance between any two interactive elements on the timeline  502  may be required to be greater than a threshold amount of time. 
     A content threshold may include an amount of content of a webinar, such as a number of slides. Hence, interactive element module  218  may require that a threshold amount of content (e.g., three slides) of the webinar has been exposed on a user device to a user since a previous interactive element was exposed on the user device to the user before interactive element module  218  exposes another interactive element on the user device to the user. 
     An engagement threshold may include a threshold engagement score. Hence, interactive element module  218  may require that a user have an engagement score determined by interaction monitoring module  216  that is greater than a threshold engagement score (e.g., greater than 0.25 for engagement scores normalized between zero and unity) before interactive element module  218  exposes an interactive element on a user device to the user. 
     In one example, interactive element module  218  determines an interactive element to display on a user device based on a user profile obtained by user profile module  450  of the user operating the user device. Interactive element module  218  may determine an interactive element to display on a user device based on any suitable data in a user profile of the user, such as a user&#39;s location, preferences, purchase history, etc. For instance, a user profile of a user may indicate that the user&#39;s employer is a suspension manufacturer. When the user views a webinar about automobiles, the interactive element module  218  may determine interactive elements that include content about suspension components, as opposed to engine components, so that webinar system  412  can determine if the user has a likelihood of purchasing suspension components for the user&#39;s employer. On the other hand, if the user profile indicated the user worked at an engine builder, the interactive element module  218  may determine interactive elements that include content about engine components, rather than suspension components. 
     Additionally or alternatively, interactive element module  218  may determine an interactive element to display on a user device based on a level of the user operating the user device in a pipeline indicated in interaction determination data generated by user interaction determination module  222 . For instance, for users having a level greater than a first depth level threshold, such as two, interactive element module  218  may determine an interactive element with a first discount, such as 15% off a next webinar. However, for users having a level greater than a second depth level threshold, such as six, interactive element module  218  may determine an interactive element with a second discount, such as one free webinar. Hence, interactive element module  218  may determine a level of discount for an offer to a user in an adaptive fashion based on the levels assigned to the users in the pipeline. 
     Interactive element module  218  may add, remove, or adjust an interactive element in any suitable way and based on any suitable data. In one example, interactive element module  218  adjusts the content of an interactive element, the placement of an interactive element on timeline  502 , or both the content and placement of an interactive element based on any suitable data, such as a user response, a user action during a webinar (e.g., one of the user actions in Table 1), content of the webinar, or combinations thereof. For instance, section four of timeline  502  includes an interactive element  512  that includes an offer. Section four of timeline  502  also includes an interactive element  514  that includes a poll. For instance, interactive element  514  may include a poll that was predetermined by the author of the webinar. Interactive element  514  is shown with dashed lines (e.g., in phantom) to indicate that interactive element module  218  has adjusted the interactive element  514  to create interactive element  516 . Interactive element  516  is an adjusted version of interactive element  514 , which has been moved to an earlier portion of section four of the timeline  502 , and the content of interactive element  514  has been changed from a poll to a chat. This adjustment of content and placement on the timeline  502  is indicated by arrow  518 . Interactive element module  218  may adjust the interactive element  514  to form interactive element  516  for any suitable reason, such as a user response to the offer of interactive element  512 , an amount of time from the offer of interactive element  512  until a user response to the offer is received, combinations thereof, and the like. 
     Returning to  FIG. 4 , interactive elements determined by interactive element module  218 , along with any suitable information, such as user actions, indicators of whether interactive elements are pre-determined (e.g., by an author of a webinar), generated by interactive element module  218 , or adjusted by interactive element module  218 , indicators of interactive elements that are added or removed, a time of a timeline of a webinar at which an interactive element is exposed on a user device, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by interactive element module  218  are stored in webinar data  438  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, interactive element module  218  provides interactive elements to user interface module  446  and user interaction determination module  222 . 
     User response module  220  is representative of functionality configured to receive responses to interactive elements from users of a webinar. User response module  220  can receive user responses via user inputs to a user interface managed by user interface module  446 , such as user interface  418 . For instance, a user may provide a user input responsive to display of an interactive element in a user interface, and user webinar application  406  may communicate the user response to user response module  220  via the network  408 . 
     User responses received by user response module  220  can include any suitable type of data, such as text (e.g., an email address, a typed answer to a question, a chat, etc.), and an audio response (e.g., a recording of user speech, a transcription of user speech, etc.). User responses may also include an indication of a user selection, such as a user choice in a multiple choice quiz, position of a switch set by a user in a user interface, an indication of a user confirmation, etc. User responses may also include any asset provided in response to an interactive element by a user, such as a document (e.g., a resume), a template that has been filled in or executed by the user (e.g., a registration form), an image, a video, and the like. 
     In one example, user response module  220  ascertains whether user responses affirm or do not affirm desired engagement with interactive elements. For instance, user response module  220  may determine intent of a user response, such as indicating whether the user wants to continue to be presented interactive elements on the user device operated by the user. User response module  220  may append metadata to the user response that represents the intent of the user. For instance, a value of a field may be populated, such as with zero indicating no intent of the user is determined, one indicating positive intent (e.g., the user wishes to receive another interactive element), two indicating the user does not wish to receive interactive elements on a specific subject (the subject indicated in another field of the metadata), and three indicating the user does not wish to receive interactive elements in general. 
     User responses received by user response module  220 , along with any suitable information, such as response data including user input (e.g., text, user selections, gestures, etc.), metadata of user responses, such as fields populated with indicators of intent of a user response, an indicator of an interactive element (e.g., an identification number) to which a user response corresponds, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by user response module  220  are stored in response data  440  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, user response module  220  provides response data representing user responses to user profile module  450 , interactive element module  218 , and user interaction determination module  222 . 
     Webinar content module  208  is representative of functionality configured to provide content of a webinar to user devices for exposure to users. Webinar content module  208  can obtain content of a webinar in any suitable way, such as from a database of webinars, from an author of a webinar (e.g., administrator  414 ), and the like. Accordingly, webinar system  412  may include or have access to a webinar database that includes content of webinars. 
     Webinar content module  208  can provide content of a webinar to user devices for exposure to users in any suitable way. In one example, webinar content module  208  provides content of a webinar in a live fashion. For instance, administrator  414  may present the webinar content at predetermined times to online users, such as user  402 . The webinar content can include a live stream video sequence, including slides prepared by the administrator  414  of the webinar and images and audio of the administrator  414 . Since the webinar is live, the administrator  414  may receive questions from users about the webinar in real time as the webinar is happening. 
     Additionally or alternatively, webinar content module  208  may provide content of a webinar that has been pre-recorded, such as by configuring the webinar as a video stream that can be accessed on-demand. For instance, the pre-recorded webinar may be accessed at any suitable time via a network by a user, and content of the webinar can be paused, rewound, replayed, skipped, etc. In one example, webinar content module  208  provides content of a pre-recorded webinar at one or more specified times, such as in a broadcast fashion. For instance, webinar content module  208  may broadcast content of a webinar to user webinar application  406  on client computing devices at predetermined times according to a schedule, such as Monday evenings at 7:00 PM. 
     Content (i.e., webinar content) provided by webinar content module  208  can include any suitable content, such as a video, slides, audio, etc. In one example, webinar content provided by webinar content module  208  is encoded into a video stream, the video stream having video frames that include content of at least one of a slide presentation, a video sequence, an animation sequence, a document, a map, a schematic, or a web page. 
     Content of a webinar provided by webinar content module  208 , along with any suitable information, such as a source of a webinar (e.g., a database location), an author of a webinar, a video stream, slides, audio, a document, a web page, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by webinar content module  208  are stored in webinar data  438  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, webinar content module  208  provides webinar content to interactive element module  218 , user interaction determination module  222 , and user interface module  446 . 
     User interaction determination module  222  is representative of functionality configured to determine interaction determination data for users of the webinar. User interaction determination module  222  maintains a pipeline of the interactive elements presented to each user, and data regarding the pipeline can be included in the interaction determination data. User interaction determination module  222  funnels users of the webinar through the pipeline based on the user responses to the interactive elements. When a user fails to respond to an interactive element, or requests to stop receiving interactive elements, user interaction determination module  222  may freeze the position of the user in the pipeline, so that the user is not propagated through the pipeline. 
     User interaction determination module  222  assigns levels to the users based on the user responses and the interactive elements. A level for a user corresponds to a position (e.g., depth) in the pipeline. For instance, the pipeline may indicate a level for a user based on the number of responses to interactive elements provided by the user. Hence, a first user who responds more than a second user to the interactive elements is assigned a higher level in the pipeline than the second user. Accordingly, the user interaction determination module  222  may propagate users through the pipeline in a funneling fashion based on the user responses to the interactive elements. 
     As an example, suppose 1000 users view a webinar and webinar system  412  presents a first interactive element to each of the users, but only half of the users provide a response to the interactive element. The first level of the pipeline may thus include  500  users, corresponding to the half of the webinar users who responded to the first interactive element. Next, suppose subsequent interactive elements are provided to the 500 users of the first level, and that one quarter of these 500 users respond to the subsequent interactive elements. User interaction determination module  222  may populate the second level of the pipeline with 125 users, corresponding to the quarter of the 500 users who responded to the subsequent interactive elements. Hence, a later level in the pipeline can have no more users than an earlier level in the pipeline, in a funneling fashion. Moreover, because different user devices may receive different interactive elements from the interactive element module  218  (e.g., based on the users&#39; responses and user profiles), the pipeline for each user may represent a respective branch on a tree, and the length of the branch indicates the level of the user. The user interaction determination module  222  generates interaction determination data that includes the levels in the pipeline assigned to the users. 
     Interaction determination data determined by user interaction determination module  222 , along with any suitable information, such as levels in a pipeline, user responses, interactive elements, numbers of users in each level of a pipeline, numbers of users presented a same interactive element, a number of different interactive elements provided to users at for each level of the pipeline, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by user interaction determination module  222  are stored in sales lead data  442  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, user interaction determination module  222  provides interaction determination data to interactive element module  218  and sales lead determination module  224 . 
     Sales lead determination module  224  is representative of functionality configured to determine sales leads based on the interaction determination data generated by the user interaction determination module  222 . Since users with higher levels in the pipeline have demonstrated a higher interest in the webinar by providing user responses to more interactive elements than users with lower levels in the pipeline, the users with higher levels are generally better sales leads than the users with lower levels (e.g., the users with higher levels may be more likely to purchase a product of the webinar than users with lower levels). Hence, sales lead determination module  224  determines at least some of the users as sales leads based on the levels for the users in the pipeline. 
     Sales lead determination module  224  can determine users as sales leads based on the levels of the users in the pipeline in any suitable way. In one example, sales lead determination module  224  requires that a user have a level that is at least a level depth threshold in the pipeline to be determined as a sales lead. For instance, users having a level in the pipeline equal to or greater than the level depth threshold may be determined by sales lead determination module  224  as sales leads, while users having a level in the pipeline less than the level depth threshold may be excluded by sales lead determination module  224  as sales leads. 
     Additionally or alternatively, sales lead determination module  224  may select the users as sales leads that have a highest level assigned to users of the webinar. For instance, if out of 1000 users of a webinar, 100 users have a level of ten in the pipeline and the remaining 900 users of the webinar have a level in the pipeline that is less than ten, then sales lead determination module  224  may select the 100 users having a level of ten as the sales leads. 
     In one example, sales lead determination module  224  determines classes of the users based on the levels in the pipeline. The classes can correspond to ranges of levels in the pipeline. For instance, a first class may correspond to level ten and higher, a second level may correspond to levels seven—nine, and a third level may correspond to levels five and six. The sales lead determination module  224  may grade the sales leads based on the class that includes the users. For instance, users of the first class may be graded by the sales lead determination module  224  with an A-grade, users of the second class with a B-grade, and users of the third class with a C-grade. The sales lead determination module  224  may provide the sales leads to sales teams based on the grades. For example, the sales lead determination module  224  may provide A-grade sales leads to a first sales team and the C-grade sales leads to a second sales team. The first team may have a highest seniority level and the second team may have a lowest seniority level. Seniority level can be determined in any suitable way, such as years of sales experience, performance in a previous time period (e.g., those sales teams who sold the most goods in the previous quarter or month may be considered to have a highest seniority level in a current quarter or month). 
     Sales lead determination module  224  may determine a user as a sales lead based on the levels of the users in the pipeline alone or in combination with any suitable data, such as a user response, engagement score, data of a user profile, interactive elements, etc. In one example, sales lead determination module  224  determines users as sales leads based on not only on the levels of the users in the pipeline, but also on the user responses to interactive elements exposed to the users on the user devices. As an example, a first user may have a level N in the pipeline and a second user may have a level M (M&lt;N) in the pipeline based on the numbers of interactive elements responded to by the first and second users. For instance, the first user may have responded to more interactive elements than the second user. Sales lead determination module  224  may determine the second user as a sales lead, but not the first user, based on the second user providing a better user response to an interactive element than the first user. For instance, the second user may correctly answer a quiz when the first user incorrectly answers the quiz. Hence, sales lead determination module  224  may determine the second user as a sales lead based on the level of the second user in the pipeline and user responses provided by the second user. 
     Moreover, sales lead determination module  224  may send communications to users identified as sales leads. Sales lead determination module  224  can send any suitable communication to a sales lead, such as a communication to entice the sales lead to purchase a product (e.g., a product related to a webinar attended by the sales lead). For instance, sales lead determination module  224  may send an email, hard-copy (e.g., via a letter carrier), text message, video message, invitation on a social media platform, combinations thereof, and the like. Hence, sales lead determination module  224  may send a communication to a sales lead via the transceiver module  444 . In the example in  FIG. 4 , sales lead determination module  224  sends an offer including coupon  452  to users of the webinar determined by sales lead determination module  224  to be sales leads. 
     A communication sent by the sales lead determination module  224  can include any suitable offer designed to entice a sales lead to purchase a product, such as a coupon (e.g., a percentage off a manufacturer&#39;s suggested retail price), a reward (e.g., a free or discounted vacation package, a free trial of software, etc.), a buy-some-get-one-free offer (e.g., buy four months worth of a license and get one month free), combinations thereof, and the like. In one example, sales lead determination module  224  communicates an offer for a product to a user of a webinar that the user attended and during which the webinar system  412  determined the user to be a sales lead. For instance, the webinar may have been about musical instruments, and during the webinar, the user may have responded to interactive elements regarding guitars. Accordingly, the sales lead determination module  224  may communicate offers for guitars to the user. 
     In one example, sales lead determination module  224  communicates offers to sales leads automatically and without user intervention responsive to sales lead determination module  224  determining the sales leads. For instance, during a webinar attended by 1000 users, the sales lead determination module  224  may determine  100  of the 1000 users as sales leads based on the responses of the 100 users to interactive elements displayed during the webinar. Sales lead determination module  224  may automatically and without user intervention send an offer to the 100 users for a product related to the webinar. In one example, sales lead determination module  224  communicates an offer to the 100 users during the webinar, such as by sending a text message to user devices operated by the users. Additionally or alternatively, sales lead determination module  224  can communicate an offer for a product to the 100 users after the webinar (e.g., once the webinar has ended). 
     In one example, sales lead determination module  224  communicates offers to sales leads in an order of the sales leads. For instance, sales lead determination module  224  may communicate product offers to sales leads based on grades assigned to the sales leads. Hence, sales leads being assigned higher or better grades, such as an A grade, may receive a product offer from the sales lead determination module  224  prior to sales leads being assigned lower or worse grades, such as a C grade. 
     Sales leads determined by sales lead determination module  224 , along with any suitable information, such as levels in a pipeline, user responses, interactive elements, numbers of users in each level of a pipeline, numbers of users presented a same interactive element, a number of different interactive elements provided to users at for each level of the pipeline, communications sent by sales lead determination module  224 , an indicator of a type of offer sent (e.g., a discount offer, a reward offer, etc.), an indication of a type of communication sent (e.g., an indicator of an e-mail, chat, phone call, etc.), a list of sales leads to whom offers are sent, a timestamp indicating when an offer is sent, an order of offers, combinations thereof, and the like, used by or calculated by sales lead determination module  224  are stored in sales lead data  442  of storage  432  and made available to modules of webinar application  448 . In one example, sales lead determination module  224  provides sales leads to a sales team. 
     The systems and procedures described herein constitute an improvement over conventional systems and procedures that do not determine users as sales leads based on their participation during a webinar, and instead merely report all attendees of a webinar as potential sales leads. By presenting interactive elements to users of a webinar, and funneling the users through a pipeline based on the user responses to the interactive elements, the systems and procedures described herein determine users of the webinar who demonstrate an interest in the product of the webinar, and select these users as sales leads. Moreover, the systems and procedures described herein may determine users of the webinar who do not demonstrate an interest in the product of the webinar based on a lack of user responses, and may omit these users as sales leads. Accordingly, the systems and procedures described herein determine high-quality sales leads who have a high likelihood of purchasing a product of the webinar, and are thus more efficient than conventional systems and procedures that determine sales leads from attendees of a webinar. 
     Example User Interfaces 
       FIG. 6 — FIG. 8  illustrate example user interfaces which may be caused to be displayed by webinar system  112  or webinar system  412  on a computing device, such as user device  102  or computing device  404 . The example user interfaces of  FIG. 6 - FIG. 8  can be displayed in succession on a user device to a user of a webinar. For instance, the display of user interface of  FIG. 6  can precede the display of the user interface of  FIG. 5 , which can precede the display of the user interface of  FIG. 6 . 
       FIG. 6  illustrates an example user interface  600  in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. User interface  600  includes webinar content  602 , which is an example of webinar content provided by webinar content module  208 . The timeline at the bottom of webinar content  602  indicates a current time of the webinar as 5 minutes, 33 seconds, and that the duration of the webinar is 45 minutes. 
     User interface  600  also includes selector  604  which, when selected, enables sales lead nurturing. For instance, when selector  604  is selected, the webinar system may funnel users of the webinar through a pipeline based on the users&#39; responses to interactive elements exposed to the users via user devices operated by the users, and select some of the users in the pipeline as sales leads. In one example, selector  604  can be enabled and disabled by an administrator, author, or presenter of the webinar, such as administrator  414  in  FIG. 4 . A representation of selector  604  may be displayed in user interface  600  to users of the webinar Additionally or alternatively, selector  604  may be enabled and disabled by a user of the webinar, such as user  402  in  FIG. 4 . 
     In the example in  FIG. 4 , selector  604  is enabled (as indicated by the dark circle and its position in selector  604 ). Accordingly, webinar content  602  is not maximized within user interface  600  (e.g., the webinar content  602  does not consume all the display space of the user interface  600 ), and user interface  600  displays interactive element  606  and pipeline  608 . Interactive element  606  is an example of an interactive element determined by interactive element module  218 , and may be a first interactive element of the webinar presented to a user viewing the webinar via user interface  600 . Interactive element  606  includes an offer for the user of user interface  600 . For instance, interactive element  606  offers the user if they are “Interested in getting a 30 day trial offer?” of the webinar content  602 . To confirm that the user is interested in the trial offer, interactive element  606  includes a section to “Enter your email”. For instance, a user may type an email address in interactive element  606  to confirm that the user is interested in the trial offer. When a user enters an email address in interactive element  606 , the email address is communicated as part of a user response to interactive element  606  to user response module  220  of the webinar system. 
     Responsive to receiving the user response to interactive element  606  (e.g., an email address), the webinar system assigns a first level (e.g., level one) to the user. To indicate that the user has been placed in the pipeline  608 , the webinar system causes a representation  610  of interactive element  606  to be displayed in the pipeline  608 . Generally, the webinar system can expose any suitable data or representation in the pipeline  608  to indicate that a user has been placed in the pipeline  608 , such as a representation of the interactive element  606 , (e.g., a thumbnail image of interactive element  606 ), the user response to the interactive element  606  (e.g., an email address), a level indicator (e.g., a number), a representation of the user (e.g., an image or avatar of the user), a timestamp of the webinar at which the user is assigned the level, combinations thereof, and the like. 
       FIG. 7  illustrates an example user interface  700  in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. User interface  700  includes webinar content  702 , which is an example of webinar content provided by webinar content module  208 . The timeline at the bottom of webinar content  702  indicates a current time of the webinar as 6 minutes, 35 seconds, indicating that webinar content  702  is presented later in the webinar than webinar content  602  in  FIG. 6  (which indicated a time of 5 minutes, 33 seconds in the webinar). User interface  700  also includes selector  704 , which is an example of selector  604  in  FIG. 6 . 
     User interface  700  also displays interactive element  706  and pipeline  708 . Interactive element  706  is an example of an interactive element determined by interactive element module  218 , and includes a reward for the user of user interface  700 . For instance, interactive element  706  states “Congratulations! You got free registration to 2 webinars” and includes a checkbox for the user to confirm that they want to receive the free registration. When a user confirms via the checkbox of interactive element  706 , the confirmation is communicated as part of a user response to interactive element  706  to user response module  220  of the webinar system. 
     Responsive to receiving the user response to interactive element  706 , the webinar system causes a representation  710  of interactive element  706  to be displayed in the pipeline  708 . The pipeline  708  has stages that expose data representations, such as representations of the interactive elements, in an order in which the interactive elements are displayed to the user. Accordingly, representation  710  is displayed following the representation  610  in the pipeline  708 , e.g., representation  710  is displayed in a later stage or level of the pipeline  708  than the representation  610 . 
       FIG. 8  illustrates an example user interface  800  in accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosure. User interface  800  includes webinar content  802 , which is an example of webinar content provided by webinar content module  208 . The timeline at the bottom of webinar content  802  indicates a current time of the webinar as 22 minutes, 32 seconds, indicating that webinar content  802  is presented later in the webinar than webinar content  602  in  FIG. 6  and webinar content  702  in  FIG. 7 . User interface  800  also includes selector  804 , which is an example of selector  604  in  FIG. 6 . 
     User interface  800  also displays interactive element  806  and pipeline  808 . Interactive element  806  is an example of an interactive element determined by interactive element module  218 , and can include any suitable content, such as a question, a poll, a chat, an offer, a reward, and the like. 
     Responsive to receiving a user response to interactive element  806 , the webinar system causes a representation  810  of interactive element  806  to be displayed in the pipeline  808 . The representation  810  corresponds to level N in the pipeline  808 , and representation  610  of  FIG. 6  and representation  710  of  FIG. 7  correspond to level 1 and level 2 of the pipeline  808 , respectively. Supposing that interactive element  806  is the final interactive element exposed to the user of the webinar operating user interface  800 , or that the user does not respond to subsequent interactive elements, then the webinar system assigns a level of N to the user, since this level is the highest level in the pipeline  808  in which the user is funneled. 
     Based on the user being assigned a level of N in the pipeline  808 , the webinar system may select the user as a sales lead. For instance, the webinar system may compare the level N assigned to the user to a level depth threshold. If the level N is greater than the level depth threshold, then the webinar system may determine the user as a sales lead. However, if the level N is not greater than the level depth threshold, then the webinar system may not determine the user as a sales lead. For instance, the webinar system may omit the user from a list of sales leads if the level N is not greater than the level depth threshold. 
     Example Systems and Devices 
       FIG. 9  illustrates an example system generally at  900  that includes example computing devices  902 - 910 . Computing devices  902 - 910  can be any suitable computing device (e.g., client computing devices). User device  102  in  FIG. 1 , user device  202  in  FIG. 2 , and computing device  404  in  FIG. 4  are examples of computing devices  902 - 910 . Computing devices  902 - 910  may include an on-chip system, multiple computing devices, combinations thereof, or any other suitable computing device or computing system. Accordingly,  FIG. 9  illustrates computing devices  902 - 910  as one or more of a tablet, a laptop computer, a smart phone, smart eye glasses, and a desktop computer, though these examples are illustrative and in no way are meant to limit the type or number of devices included in computing devices  902 - 910 . Computing devices  902 - 910  include user webinar application  104  and user webinar application  406 , which operate as described above to support user interaction determination within a webinar system. For clarity, only computing device  908  is illustrated in  FIG. 9  as including user webinar application  104  and user webinar application  406 . 
     Furthermore, computing devices  902 - 910  are coupled to “cloud”  912  including platform  914  that is representative of one or more computing systems and devices that may implement the various techniques described herein, such as edge servers, global servers, or combinations thereof. This is illustrated through inclusion of webinar application  114 , webinar application  448 , webinar application  206 , user webinar application  104 , user webinar application  204 , webinar system  112 , webinar system  112 , user interaction monitoring system  212 , and server  110  in modules of platform  914 , which operate as described above. 
     Functionality of computing devices  902 - 910  may be implemented all or in part through use of a distributed system, such as over a “cloud”  912  via a platform  914 . Furthermore, platform  914  may host data accessible by computing devices  902 - 910 , and therefore computing devices  902 - 910  may be required to be authenticated to platform  914 . 
     Platform  914  includes a processing system  916 , one or more computer-readable media  918 , and one or more I/O interfaces  920  that are communicatively coupled to each other. Although not shown, platform  914  may further include a system bus or other data and command transfer system that couples the various components, one to another. A system bus can include any one or combination of different bus structures, such as a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, a universal serial bus, and a processor or local bus that utilizes any of a variety of bus architectures. A variety of other examples are also contemplated, such as control and data lines. 
     Processing system  916  is representative of functionality to perform one or more operations using hardware. Accordingly, processing system  916  is illustrated as including hardware elements  922  that may be configured as processors, functional blocks, and so forth. This may include implementation in hardware as an application specific integrated circuit or other logic device formed using one or more semiconductors. Hardware elements  922  are not limited by the materials from which they are formed or the processing mechanisms employed therein. For example, processors may be comprised of semiconductor(s) and transistors (e.g., electronic integrated circuits (ICs)). In such a context, processor-executable instructions may be electronically-executable instructions. Processors  430  in  FIG. 4  are examples of processing system  916 . 
     Computer-readable media  918  (e.g., computer-readable storage media) is illustrated as including memory/storage  924 . Storage  432  in  FIG. 4  is an example of memory/storage included in memory/storage  924 . Memory/storage  924  may include volatile media (such as random access memory (RAM)), nonvolatile media (such as read only memory (ROM), Flash memory, optical disks, magnetic disks, and so forth), or combinations thereof. Memory/storage  924  may include fixed media (e.g., RAM, ROM, a fixed hard drive, and so on) as well as removable media (e.g., Flash memory, a removable hard drive, an optical disc, and so forth). Computer-readable media  918  may be configured in a variety of other ways as further described below. 
     Input/output interface(s)  920  are representative of functionality to allow a user (e.g., a system administrator of platform  914 ) to enter commands and information to platform  914 , and also allow information to be presented to the user and other components or devices using various input/output devices. Examples of input devices include a keyboard, a cursor control device (e.g., a mouse), a microphone, an array of microphones, a scanner, touch functionality (e.g., capacitive or other sensors that are configured to detect physical touch), a camera (e.g., which may employ visible or non-visible wavelengths such as infrared frequencies to recognize movement as gestures that do not involve touch), and so forth. Examples of output devices include a display device (e.g., a monitor or projector), speakers, a printer, a network card, tactile-response device, and so forth. Thus, platform  914  may be configured in a variety of ways as further described below to support user interaction. 
     Platform  914  also includes applications  926 . Applications  926  are representative of any suitable applications capable of running on platform  914 , and may include a web browser which is operable to access various kinds of web-based resources (e.g., webinars, assets, media clips, images, content, configuration files, services, user profiles, advertisements, coupons, and the like). Applications  926  include webinar application  114 , webinar application  448 , webinar application  206 , user webinar application  104 , and user webinar application  204 , as previously described. Furthermore, applications  926  includes any applications supporting webinar system  112 , webinar system  112 , user interaction monitoring system  212 , or server  110 . 
     Cloud  912  includes and is representative of a platform  914 . Platform  914  abstracts underlying functionality of hardware (e.g., servers) and software resources of cloud  912 , and includes resources  928 . Resources  928  may include applications, data, services, webinars, and content that can be utilized while computer processing is executed on servers that are remote from computing devices  902 - 910 . Resources  928  can also include services provided over the Internet, through a subscriber network, such as a cellular or Wi-Fi network, or combinations thereof. 
     Generally, resources  928  may be licensed, purchased, or may be made freely available, (e.g., without authentication, license, or account-based access). The resources  928  can include any suitable combination of services and content, such as a webinar service, an on-line shopping service, an image editing service, an artwork drawing service, a web development and management service, a collaboration service, a social networking service, a messaging service, an advertisement service, a graphics design service, an animation service, an image storage service (including storage of photos, documents, records, files, and the like), a graphics editing service, an asset distribution service, and so forth. Content may include various combinations of assets, including webinars, videos, ads, audio, multi-media streams, animations, digital images, digital artworks, web documents, web pages, applications, device applications, text documents, drawings, presentations, photographs (e.g., stock photographs), user profiles, user preferences, user data (e.g., images stored in an image gallery), maps, computer code, and the like. Resources  928  include webinar store  930 , which operates to provide webinar content to a webinar system (e.g., webinar system  112 ) that facilitates users to participate in webinars on computing devices, such as computing devices  902 - 910 . 
     Various techniques may be described herein in the general context of software, hardware elements, or program modules. Generally, such modules include routines, programs, objects, elements, components, data structures, and so forth that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The terms “module,” “functionality,” and “component” as used herein generally represent software, firmware, hardware, or a combination thereof. The features of the techniques described herein are platform-independent, meaning that the techniques may be implemented on a variety of commercial computing platforms having a variety of processors. 
     An implementation of the described modules and techniques may be stored on or transmitted across some form of computer-readable media. The computer-readable media may include a variety of media that may be accessed by platform  914 . By way of example, and not limitation, computer-readable media may include “computer-readable storage media” and “computer-readable signal media.” 
     “Computer-readable storage media” refers to media, devices, or combinations thereof that enable persistent or non-transitory storage of information in contrast to mere signal transmission, carrier waves, or signals per se. Thus, computer-readable storage media does not include signals per se or signal bearing media. The computer-readable storage media includes hardware such as volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media, storage devices, or combinations thereof implemented in a method or technology suitable for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, logic elements/circuits, or other data. Examples of computer-readable storage media may include, but are not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disks (DVD) or other optical storage, hard disks, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or other storage device, tangible media, or article of manufacture suitable to store the desired information and which may be accessed by a computer. 
     “Computer-readable signal media” refers to a signal-bearing medium that is configured to transmit instructions to the hardware of the platform  914 , such as via a network. Signal media typically may embody computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal, such as carrier waves, data signals, or other transport mechanism. Signal media also include any information delivery media. The term “modulated data signal” means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner as to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media include wired media such as a wired network or direct-wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared, and other wireless media. 
     As previously described, hardware elements  922  and computer-readable media  918  are representative of modules, programmable device logic, fixed device logic implemented in a hardware form, or combinations thereof that may be employed in some aspects to implement at least some aspects of the techniques described herein, such as to perform one or more instructions. Hardware may include components of an integrated circuit or on-chip system, an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), and other implementations in silicon or other hardware. In this context, hardware may operate as a processing device that performs program tasks defined by instructions, logic embodied by the hardware, or combinations thereof, as well as a hardware utilized to store instructions for execution, e.g., the computer-readable storage media described previously. 
     Combinations of the foregoing may also be employed to implement various techniques described herein. Accordingly, software, hardware, or executable modules may be implemented as one or more instructions, logic embodied on some form of computer-readable storage media or by one or more hardware elements  922 , or combinations thereof. Platform  914  may be configured to implement particular instructions and functions corresponding to the software and hardware modules. Accordingly, implementation of a module that is executable by platform  914  as software may be achieved at least partially in hardware, e.g., through use of computer-readable storage media and hardware elements  922  of processing system  916 . The instructions and functions may be executable/operable by one or more articles of manufacture (for example, processing system  916 ) to implement techniques, modules, and examples described herein. 
     Conclusion 
     In one or more implementations, a digital medium environment includes at least one computing device. Systems, devices, and techniques are described herein for user interaction determination within a webinar system. A computing device, such as a server computing device implemented in a cloud-based system, implements a webinar system that exposes interactive elements during a webinar on user devices, such as a question, poll, chat, offer, and the like. Interactive elements may be pre-determined (e.g., by an author of a webinar) or generated by the webinar system, such as based on the webinar content, a user response to an interactive element, a user profile, or an engagement level of the user in the webinar. The webinar system maintains a pipeline that assigns levels to the users based on the user responses and the interactive elements, and determines users of the webinar as sales leads based on the levels for the users in the pipeline, such as by selecting the users having levels in the pipeline greater than a level depth threshold. Accordingly, the webinar system identifies sales leads as users of the webinar who demonstrate an interest in the product of the webinar based on their responses to the interactive elements, rather than simply an attendee list of the webinar. Thus, the webinar system identifies high-quality sales leads who have a high likelihood of purchasing a product of the webinar, and is thus more efficient than conventional webinar systems. 
     Although implementations of user interaction determination within a webinar system have been described in language specific to features and/or methods, the appended claims are not necessarily limited to the specific features or methods described. Rather, the specific features and methods are disclosed as example implementations of user interaction determination within a webinar system, and other equivalent features and methods are intended to be within the scope of the appended claims. Further, various different examples are described and it is to be appreciated that each described example can be implemented independently or in connection with one or more other described examples.