Zoom: Leading Effective and Engaging Calls

Course details

Lead Zoom meetings and webinars with confidence. In this course, instructor Zack Arnold shows how to ensure that your next Zoom call is effective, productive, and engaging. Zack begins with a wealth of security tips for before, during, and after a call. Next, he shares strategies for maximizing audience engagement and interaction (as well as minimizing distractions and interruptions), whether your call is with 5 or 500 people. This includes adjusting view options so you never miss a participant’s reactions, organizing windows to maximize eye contact, and using polls and reactions to interact with larger groups. Zack also covers the technical aspects of running Zoom calls, such as sharing video and audio content and trading off screen sharing between the facilitator and other presenters and cohosts. Plus, discover how to make the most of breakout rooms and advanced features like his favorite hot keys, as well as livestreaming your Zoom calls to the web.

Concepts

Introduction

Leading effective, productive, and engaging Zoom calls
Where to learn Zoom basics

Meeting Settings and Security

Managing security before your meeting
Managing security during your meeting
Managing security for back-to-back meetings
Managing security of your local recordings after your meeting
Managing security of your cloud recordings after your meeting

Conducting Productive Meetings and Maximizing Engagement

Establishing pre-meeting communication guidelines
Time-management tips for effective meetings
Managing connection issues, passwords, and lost links
Setting up in-meeting communication guidelines
Managing the various view options
Organizing meeting windows to maximize eye contact
Using the polling feature
Ending your meetings smoothly

Collaboration Tools and Settings

Sharing your screen and annotating
Controlling another user's screen
Using and sharing your whiteboard
Sharing video and audio content
Collaborating with a cohost

Setting Up and Using Breakout Rooms

Creating breakout rooms and automatically assigning participants
Manually assigning participants to breakout rooms
Modifying and managing participants in breakout rooms

Advanced Zoom Features

Mastering in-meeting hot keys
Understanding the difference between meetings and webinars
Livestreaming your Zoom meetings to the web

Conclusion

Continued learning with Zoom