Starting a Zoom Meeting

Launching a meeting

You can start a meeting in a variety of ways.

• Click on the link, whether it's in Canvas, email, an Outlook appointment, or something else. 
• If you're using your personal meeting room, start the Zoom app, and click "New." (Check the little arrow to the right of the New button, and make sure "Use my Personal Meeting ID (PMI)" is checked.)
  
• For meetings created in the Canvas Zoom page, go to your class and click on the "Start" button. 
• Log in to Zoom. 

Meeting options to get you started

From inside your Zoom room, mouse over the Zoom window to see the toolbar at the bottom of the window.

Audio/video controls are in the bottom left. Use these to mute your audio/video or to switch microphones and cameras. 

 

 

 

Participant controls allow you to invite people to your room.

Security allows you to do things like mute participants and enable student screensharing and chat.

Click the green share screen icon to share a specific program (good idea), your entire screen (bad idea), or launch a whiteboard. Click on what you want to share then press the blue "Share" button. During a share, mouse over the green room ID or the red "Stop share" button at the top of the screen to see your toolbar. Use the added features of this toolbar to annotate your screen. (Screensharing instructions Links to an external site..)

During a screenshare, you can give control of your computer to a participant. Don't worry! You can take back control any time. (Remote control instructions Links to an external site..)

Open the chat window to send text messages to all of your participants or just individuals. (Chat instructions Links to an external site..)