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You can annotate your screen sharing, window sharing or webinars in Zoom by using a 'vanishing pen annotation'. Zoom had annotation features before, but in this update for Zoom version 5.6.3, you can draw anywhere on the screen, and in a few seconds, annotation disappears automatically.
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Scheduling a Zoom meeting that requires registration will allow participants to register with their email, first name, last name, and other questions. Registration allows you to capture more information about your attendees. Once this is scheduled, you can manage your registrants, resend confirmation emails, and generate meeting registration reports if
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Zoom has a new feature when you share your screen, you get notified over your shared content that 1) you are sharing and 2) participants can see your content. I've been in meetings when someone that is sharing is talking about cell B5 in Excel and no one
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Your Personal Meeting Room is a virtual meeting room permanently reserved for you to access with your Personal Meeting ID (PMI). With your PMI, you can start instant meetings or schedule a meeting that uses your PMI. I find myself starting instant meetings with co-workers using the PMI. Your Personal
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Zoom has a nifty feature where you can block or allow participants from countries/regions when scheduling your meeting. For example, I'm in the U.S. and schedule a zoom meeting. I can block participants from Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK. I can also go the other
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Zoom's polling is a great feature. One tip that most users don't know is that you can view all polls' results during a meeting. By default, as the host, you can easily share one poll's results during the meeting, but you can launch
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The Outlook desktop client now allows all meetings to be Teams meetings by default. No longer do you have to remember to click the Teams Meeting add-in icon in the ribbon. Another new feature in Outlook is you can now have a Meet Now meeting in Teams. YouTube Video on
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Zoom allows you to Mute All participants as a host and previously allowed you to Unmute all. Unmute all was removed in May 2020. It was determined it was a privacy issue to unmute all.
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Zoom has made it easy to share and play video files in a meeting. Part of the 5.5.0 update on 2/1/2021 allows you to select a video file and Zoom immediately opens the file, shares audio, and plays the video as shared content. The host has
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Zoom's latest update, 5.5.0, came out on February 1, 2021. One of the many new features is the ability to blur your background. You can still select a specific virtual background, but the blurred background is a great feature if you need added privacy. YouTube video
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Zoom's Waiting Room & Breakout Rooms are both great features. One of the issues addressed with **Zoom 5.4.9** released on **January 11, 2021**, is if the Host was in a breakout room, the host didn't know if someone was in the Waiting Room. This
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Zoom has released a new update - version 5.4.3 - on November 16, 2020. The update includes a great new feature that allows you to share multiple programs at once! Users can select multiple desktop programs at once for sharing, instead of sharing their entire desktop. Other programs