Don’t use your static Personal Meeting ID as the meeting URL, instead choose “Generate Automatically” for Meeting IDs.With Zoom open, click Zoom > Check for Updates > and click Update if one is available. Keeping your Zoom meetings secure for you and your participants remains one of Carleton’s highest priorities. One example of Zoom’s Immersive View feature In addition to immersing yourself in a PowerPoint presentation, you can immerse all of your participants in a single, virtual, location. There are many different templates to choose from.

Use your PowerPoint slides as a background in Zoom Keep yourself on-screen while sharing your PowerPoint slides with this new feature (unfortunately, this does not work with Google Presentations or Keynote). When you share your screen, you can choose Advanced > Slides > and navigate to a PowerPoint, which will open as your virtual background, placing you at the bottom right of the screen. To help keep you or your participants on schedule, you can now quickly launch a visible timer during a meeting! (Available June 7.) Zoom’s Meeting Timer feature Think about students giving synchronous feedback or using the stamps as an alternative to a survey.

When a screen is being shared, just click Annotate in the top toolbar, and then select which annotation tool you prefer: text, drawing, stamp, etc. You can also collaborate on any shared screen using the built in annotation tools. With functionality like Google’s Jamboard, you can now easily create a collaborative workspace in any Zoom meeting. Each whiteboard is saved to your Zoom account, and it can easily be exported as a PDF or PNG. If your Zoom client isn’t already at version 5.10.3 or higher, consider updating soon.īelow are some of the more recent Zoom features.

Zoom is regularly rolling out new features and security updates.

Zoom check for updates