Teach Yourself VISUALLY Zoom. Paul McFedries

Disturb.

      Set Your Presence Status

      

Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.

       Your user icon displays your current presence status.

      

Click your user icon.

      

Click the presence status you want to set.

      

If you click Do not disturb, click the amount of time you want to be undisturbed.

       Zoom updates your presence status icon.

CHAPTER 2

      Hosting a Meeting

You can host your own Zoom meetings and invite other people to attend. You can create instant meetings that start right away, or you can schedule a future meeting. As host, you can also allow participants into the meeting, rename attendees, enable participants to share a screen or record the meeting, remove participants, and more.

       Start an Instant Meeting

       Start an Instant Meeting in Your Personal Meeting Room

       Invite People to a Meeting

       Schedule a Meeting

       Schedule a Recurring Meeting

       Start a Scheduled Meeting

       Explore Host Controls

       Allow a Person into Your Meeting

       Enable the Co-Host Option

       Make an Attendee a Meeting Co-Host

       Assign an Attendee to Type Closed Captions

       Enable Screen Sharing for Participants

       Enable Breakout Rooms for Participants

       Create Breakout Rooms

       Enable Recording for Participants

       End a Meeting

Start an Instant Meeting

      If you have a Zoom account, you can host a meeting immediately by starting an instant meeting. An instant meeting is a meeting that begins right away and to which you invite users after the meeting has begun, as described in the section “Invite People to a Meeting” later in this chapter. You can start an instant meeting either using the Zoom desktop app or using the Zoom mobile app.

      You can also start an instant meeting from a Zoom chat conversation. For the details, see Chapter 11.

      Start an Instant Meeting

      Using the Zoom Desktop App

      

Click Home.

      

Click New Meeting.

       If you prefer to start the instant meeting with your video turned off, click the New Meeting and then click Start with video ( changes to ).

      Zoom starts the instant meeting.

      Using the Zoom Mobile App

      

Tap Meet & Chat.

Tap New Meeting.

      Zoom displays the Start a Meeting screen.

       If you prefer to start the instant meeting with your video turned off, tap Video On ( changes to ).

      

Tap Start a Meeting.

      Zoom starts the instant meeting.

Start an Instant Meeting in Your Personal Meeting Room

If you have a paid Zoom account, you can create an instant meeting that takes place in your personal meeting room. When you sign up for a paid Zoom account, you are automatically assigned a personal meeting room, which is a virtual room that’s permanently reserved just for your own use. Your personal meeting room is identified by your Personal Meeting