Organising a Zoom meeting – – University of Queensland
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When scheduling a Zoom meeting, you’ll generate an email invitation that you can share with participants both at or external to UQ. If you wish to host a Zoom meeting with more than participants, submit an IT request. If you need to schedule a meeting on behalf of another user or assign another user to schedule your meeting, see how to use Zoom scheduling privileges.
You can schedule Zoom meetings through different platforms. Select a platform to learn how to schedule a meeting:. Watch: How to schedule a Zoom meeting on your desktop. To schedule a Zoom meeting through the UQ Zoom web interface, watch the video guide or read the steps:.
Watch: How to schedule a Zoom meeting through the web interface. To schedule a Zoom meeting through Outlook, make sure you have the Zoom Outlook plugin installed , then watch the video guide:. Watch: How to schedule a Zoom meeting through Outlook. Enabling registration when scheduling a Zoom meeting will allow you to collect information from your meeting participants before they are provided connection details to join the meeting.
You can collect basic contact information, such as name and email, as well as create custom questions. To do this:. As the host of an active Zoom meeting, there are 4 ways you can invite participants to your meeting.
Select ‘Manage Participants’ from the bottom menu of the meeting window, then select ‘Invite’ located above the group chat window. This URL is only useful to other Zoom users. If a meeting participant asks you to dial them in to a Zoom meeting or presentation, you will need to invite the videoconferencing system in the room they’re in. Request the room address from the meeting participant, then:.
If you are unable to obtain the address of the system, it should still be possible for the room-based meeting participant to dial their system into a Zoom meeting by following the connection options shown in the Zoom meeting’s invitation.
For further instructions on joining a Zoom meeting from a room-based system, see Joining or leaving a Zoom meeting. Participants of an active Zoom meeting can select the ‘Leave’ option on the bottom menu of the Zoom meeting interface. The meeting will remain active once a participant has left the meeting. If the Zoom meeting contains multiple hosts, the meeting will remain active after the host has left the meeting. If the meeting contains only one host, the host will be asked to assign a new host before leaving the meeting.
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Organising a future Zoom meeting When organising a Zoom meeting, you can: schedule a meeting set up meeting registration. Schedule a meeting When scheduling a Zoom meeting, you’ll generate an email invitation that you can share with participants both at or external to UQ. Zoom on your desktop To schedule a Zoom meeting on your desktop, watch the video guide or read the steps: Watch: How to schedule a Zoom meeting on your desktop Open Zoom on your desktop, and log in if required.
Set a start date and time. You’ll then have the following options: To make this a regular meeting, tick the ‘Recurring meeting’ box. To set a password for the meeting, tick ‘Require meeting password’ in the ‘Password’ section, and then enter a password. Ensure that participants are given this password before the meeting. In the ‘Video’ section, choose whether ‘Hosts’ and ‘Participants’ video will start automatically when the meeting begins. In the ‘Audio’ section, leave ‘Telephone and Computer Audio’ selected.
In the ‘Calendar’ section, select a calendar application to schedule the meeting. Zoom will generate a meeting invitation with connection details, and you can share this with your meeting participants. In the ‘Advanced Options’ section, you have the following options: To allow participants to join a waiting room before joining the meeting, tick ‘Enable waiting room’. The meeting host will have the option to allow participants to join the meeting when ready.
To allow meeting participants to join before the host arrives at a Zoom meeting, tick ‘Enable join before host’. To ensure that a meeting in progress is not disturbed by joining participants, tick ‘Mute participants upon entry’. To restrict access to the Zoom meeting to UQ users only, s elect ‘Only authenticated users can join’.
To record the meeting as soon as it’s started, tick ‘Automatically record meeting’. Zapier is an automation platform that lets you connect your favorite apps to save time, cut down on tedious tasks, and focus on the work that matters most. Our automations are called Zaps, and you’ll see several pre-made Zaps which we call Zap templates throughout this piece.
To get started with a Zap template, just click on it, and we’ll guide you through customizing it—it only takes a couple minutes. You can read more about setting up Zaps here. Note: To set up integrations between Zoom and Zapier, you need a paid Zoom account. Free account holders don’t have access to the Zoom API. If you run a lot of meetings—for example, with clients—but don’t have an assistant, you might want to connect your scheduling app, Zoom, and your calendar.
Whenever someone books an appointment in a scheduling app, for example, Zapier can automatically create a new Zoom meeting and add it to whatever app you use for your personal calendar. Here are some pre-built Zaps to power this workflow, but you can create a Zap with whatever apps you use.
To make this automation even more powerful, you can add a step that shares the meeting details with your team via a chat app like Slack. We use this automation all the time here at Zapier—any time a new team meeting in Zoom kicks off, the Zoom link gets posted to the appropriate channel in Slack automatically.
For weekly meetings, monthly check-ins, and other regularly-scheduled calls, Zoom lets you create a recurring meeting. There are two benefits to using this setting. First, it lets you lock in all the call settings you want once and have them be in place every time you meet.
Second, recurring calls use the same join URL each time, so you never have to send a fresh one to attendees. Additionally, if you meet with the same group regularly but not on a regular schedule, you can choose an option called No Fixed Time, which lets you use the same settings and meeting ID over and over with the same group, no matter when you get together. This option is popular with educational groups who use Zoom as their virtual classroom. How you do this will depend on which platform you’re using, but you can refer to Zoom’s documentation for setting up your recurring meeting.
Fair warning that for any recurring meeting, you cannot schedule it with your Personal Meeting ID also called PMI in Zoom; it’s a virtual private meeting space for you, and the link never changes. Also, know that all recurring meeting IDs expire after one year, so you’ll have to generate a new one then. Say you’re using Zoom to hold a mandatory event, like a university lecture or a safety training session.
You probably want to know who attends. You can get that information from a report once the meeting is finished. Look for Usage Reports, and then click Meeting to find the meeting you want, select the report type and date range, and generate the report. Requirements: To generate an attendee list, you need to be the 1 the host of the meeting, 2 in a role with Usage Reports enabled, or 3 an account administrator or owner. In addition to getting an attendance sheet, you can also gather information from meeting attendees about themselves before they join the call.
For example, you might want to require that attendees provide their name, company affiliation, or industry. To collect this information, first you need to require Registration, an option found in the My Meetings tab of the Zoom web app. Then, you can set up a form that attendees must fill out before they can join the meeting. For the registration form, Zoom provides standard fields, such as name and company affiliation, that you add using checkboxes.
To add new questions or fields, jump over to the tab called Custom Questions. If you’re using Zoom to run a digital event like a webinar, however, you might want to let attendees register via a form on your website or an event management app.
Automation is a great way to make sure that everyone who signs up for your webinar is then registered in Zoom. These pre-built Zaps are perfect for getting started:. You can make this automation even more powerful by making sure that any registrant information you collect is also added to your CRM or email marketing tool, so you can follow up more easily.
Requirements: To require attendee information in Zoom, the host must have a Pro account. Additionally, the meeting cannot be your Personal Meeting ID. Zoom lets you record your web conferencing calls as videos, a handy feature for sharing the meeting with people who may have missed it or for reviewing what was said. When you record, you must choose whether to use the local or cloud option. Local means you store the video file yourself, whether locally on your computer or in another storage space that you provide.
With Cloud, which is for paying members only, Zoom stores the video for you in its cloud storage different account types come with different amounts of storage. One convenience of the cloud option is that people can stream the video in a web browser once it’s ready. When creating a video from a conference call, it makes a big difference in the final quality to optimize a few settings in advance.
For example, some calls might be broadcast-style, where only the host appears on screen. In that case, set Zoom to only record the audio and video of the host.
Other calls might be in the style of a collaborative meeting, in which case you want to record everyone. Be sure to explore Zoom’s settings at least a few minutes before recording a call. If you don’t see the option to record, check your settings in the web app under My Meeting Settings or have your account administrator enable it.
If you need to share the recording later, try one of these Zaps to automatically share once the recording has finished. If you record meeting attendees’ video or audio, it’s common courtesy—and in some places a requirement—to inform them before you do. Screen sharing allows the host of a call to display whatever’s on their screen to everyone else on the call. Annotation tools let all the meeting participants draw and highlight what’s on screen, which can be immensely helpful when discussing visual materials, such as mockups, graphic designs, and so forth.
To annotate while viewing someone else’s shared screen, select View Option from the top of the Zoom window, and then choose Annotate. A toolbar appears with all your options for annotating, including text, draw, arrow, and so forth. The presenter can use the save button on the toolbar to capture the complete image with annotations as a screenshot. You can also disable attendee annotation altogether. Meetings can have more than one person at the helm.
A PR rep might want to cooperatively control a meeting alongside an executive, or a team with more than one lead may prefer to each co-host rather than choose one person over the other. Whatever your circumstances, you can start a Zoom call and have more than one person be in charge.
To use co-hosting tools, you first must enable it in Zoom’s Meeting Settings. Look for the Meeting tab and choose the Co-host option. Then, when you start a meeting, wait for your co-host to join, and add the person by clicking the three dots that appear when you hover over their video box. Alternatively, you can go to the Participants window, choose Manage Participants , hover over the co-host’s name, and select More to find the Make Co-Host option.
If the option doesn’t appear, ask your account administrator to enable the settings in the Meeting tab for co-hosting privileges. Zoom lets attendees get into a video call with or without the host being present.
Small groups sometimes like this option because they can have a few minutes to chit-chat before the meeting officially kicks off. In some situations, however, it could be in poor form to have attendees in a virtual room together, waiting for you to start. A better solution is to create a virtual waiting room, where attendees remain on hold until you let them in all at the same time or one by one. Precisely how you enable a waiting room depends on the type of account you have. When you set one up, however, you can customize what the attendees see while they await your grand entrance.
People who work with an assistant will love this option in Zoom that gives scheduling privileges to someone else. Whoever manages your calendar can now schedule Zoom calls for you. To set up the scheduling assistant privilege, log into Zoom, open Meeting Settings , and look under Other. You’ll see a plus sign next to Assign Scheduling Privilege.
Add your scheduling assistants by typing their email addresses and finish by clicking Assign. After you add your scheduling assistants, they must log out of Zoom and log back in for the feature to take effect.
From this point on, assistants can create meetings for others by using the Schedule tool.
If you know you will need to launch the same poll twice and want both sets of data, consider creating a second poll with the same questions as the original to avoid re-launching. Breakout Rooms. Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, or they can allow participants to select and enter breakout sessions as they please.
The host can switch between sessions at any time. Local and cloud recording allows you to record your meeting’s video, audio, and chat text.
You can download them from your cloud storage later and upload them to another platform on your website, Youtube, Vimeo, or Facebook. This will help create room. If you record on your local machine, when the meeting ends or you as the host ends it, a popup will show up and start downloading your recording. After that, it will ask where you want to save the recording and then you can access the files it downloaded such as the chat, just audio, video, and anything else you selected in your account or meeting settings.
Attendee Registration. Scheduling a meeting that requires registration will allow participants register with their e-mail, name, other questions, and custom questions, allowing you to capture more information about your attendees.
Once this is scheduled, you can manage your registrants , resend confirmation emails , and can also generate meeting registration reports if you want to download a list of people that registered. Note : Participants joining meetings with registration must use the Zoom desktop client or mobile app.
They will not be able to join using the web client. This will also limit any chances of random attendees. Then, we scheduled all our meetings and copied the join links into 1 follow-up email for all those that registered with access to all the meetings.
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The Zoom app opens. Approve the request for permission to use your computer’s audio and camera. How to join a Zoom meeting on mobile via meeting invite link Find the invitation link to join a meeting.
This may have been sent to you via email or text message. Once you locate it, click to join, which will open your browser app. If you haven’t downloaded the app yet, you’ll be prompted to do so at this time from the App Store or Play Store. Questions or Feedback? If you invite someone to a meeting or webinar that requires registration, they receive an email that includes the following:.
Registration cannot be used with recurring meetings or if the Join before host option is selected. If these options are selected, registration is disabled for the meeting or webinar, and any previous attendee registrations are permanently deleted. To recover these attendee registrations, please contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center.
For more information about these features, see Advanced scheduling options for Webex Meetings and Webex Webinars. This feature is available on a delayed release cycle. Check status. If you leave this check box unchecked and an attendee registers after the meeting, or the webinar has already started, they cannot join until they receive a registration confirmation email and provide the meeting or webinar password.
For more information, see Accept or reject meeting and webinar registration requests. If a user tries to register for a meeting or webinar that is full, they receive an email message with further information.
