Hosting a Meeting
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The following options are recommended when you are hosting a Zoom meeting. Please note that these settings are recommended to optimize privacy.
You can mute and unmute participants while you are hosting a meeting.
Zoom offers the ability to chat with everyone simultaneously, or to send private messages to individual participants.
As Meeting Host, you may share your screen, desktop or other content with participants on Zoom
If you are hosting a meeting, you can make a participant host/co-host.
You can stop participant’s video or ask them to start video.
Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions.
Breakout rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions.
The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings.
In order to keep track of how many students attend lectures, or to have a record for participation grades, an instructor may wish to take attendance for Zoom meetings.
You can host a meeting that starts instantly and you can invite others to join this meeting at any time. There are two ways to start an instant meeting.
The Auto-Transcript feature in Zoom produces an automatic live transcript of everyone speaking in the Zoom session that meeting participants can see either as subtitles or as a live transcript.
Pre-assigning these breakout rooms can save time during the Zoom meeting such that participants are automatically sorted into the appropriate rooms without further action from the host.
There are several ways to host webinars and large meetings using platforms provided by the University of Calgary.
