Zoom Quick Tips

Zoom Quick Tips

18mGeneral2022-12-23

Authors

Garrick Chow

Garrick Chow

Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning

Course details

Zoom is now ubiquitous in many of our workplaces, but do we know how to make the most of it? In this course, a series of short video tutorials help Zoom users with those urgent “How do I …?” problems. Staff instructor Garrick Chow provides on-the-spot solutions for the most common questions in Zoom, the ubiquitous video conferencing app. Garrick goes over how to use polls in a meeting, as well as how to change your background and display name. He shares the easy and very useful process to mute all participants in a meeting and also covers how to zoom in on a screenshare to make it easier to see. Garrick explains how to add a temporary profile photo, get a meeting transcript, and much more. Learn the tools and tips you need to get the most out of your Zoom meetings!

Skills covered

ZoomVideo ConferencingQuick TipsBusiness Software and Tools

Concepts

Introduction

  • Use Zoom more effectively

Scheduling

  • Check important security settings
  • Create recurring meetings
  • Disable or enable join before host
  • Create a poll before a meeting

Important Settings

  • Change your background
  • Set default display name
  • Start with the camera or audio off
  • Add your pronouns

During Meetings

  • Quickly invite attendees
  • Mute everyone
  • Change display names
  • Encourage non-verbal feedback
  • Mute and unmute with the spacebar
  • Hide non-video participants
  • Edit your profile photo during a meeting

Screen Sharing

  • Share a slideshow as a background
  • Zoom in on a screenshare
  • Optimize for sharing audio and video
  • Highlight your mouse while screensharing