Zoom: Tutorials, articles, tips and tricks

Zoom - Create Breakout Rooms From Poll Results - New Feature - January 2023

Zoom has a great new feature using Polls and Breakout Rooms. Now, when you launch polls, you can create breakout rooms from the poll results! This feature is part of Zoom 5.13.5 released on January 16, 2023.

Zoom Always Show Meeting Controls - Awesome Tip for Presenters

When you are presenting in Zoom, it is important to have access to the Meeting Control bar. Frequently, it will disappear, and you have to Stop Presenting to get it back.

Zoom co-host feature: What can a co-host do, and what limitations do they have?

Managing a zoom meeting can be challenging with a lot of people. With the co-host feature, you can share hosting privileges with other users. A co-host can help manage the waiting room, breakout rooms, chats, and other features.

Zoom - Record Separate Audio Tracks for easy editing

Zoom has a great feature where you can separate audio tracks. Most Zoom users aren't aware that they can record audio files on separate tracks. This feature is beneficial for content creators such as Livestreams, Podcasters, and anyone doing interviews.

Zoom Advanced Polls - 6 new question types! New Feature | Nov 2021

Zoom has a significant update for Meeting Polls. With Zoom 5.8.3, you can do Advanced Polling. There are six new question types in addition to single and multiple answers. You can now use short answer, long answer, matching, rank answers, rating, and fill in the blank.

Zoom profile picture now shows in meeting chats

Zoom now features "Profile photos for in-meeting chat." When chatting in a Zoom meeting, participants' profile pictures now appear. If the participant doesn't have a profile picture, their initials appear. This is part of Zoom's update in October 2021. The version is 5.8.3, and it works with Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

Zoom - Add Video to the Waiting Room

The Zoom Waiting Room is very popular. You have always been able to customize the waiting room with your logo and a description. Now, with the release of Zoom 5.7.3, you can add a video to your waiting room.

Zoom Immersive View: New Feature in Zoom 5.6.3 - May 2021

Zoom includes Immersive View, starting from version 5.6.3, which puts all your participants inside the same scene with a beautiful and casual decor or background.

Zoom Vanishing Pen Annotation | Draw on Screen during meetings or webinars while sharing. Zoom 5.6.3

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 screen and in a few seconds that annotation disappears automatically.

Zoom Meetings Registration | Top 10 questions answered | Zoom Registration Tutorial

Why use registration for a Zoom meeting? Registration is used for Zoom webinars, but you can use Registration for meetings. Three reasons to used registration for meetings:

Zoom - Notification for Shared Content

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.

Zoom Security - Using and Changing your Personal Meeting ID (PMI)

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 you can schedule a meeting that uses your PMI.