Hey! Do you get anxious when you've got to join a Zoom meeting? Now maybe you've done it before
but you don't remember: Do I have to download something? Do I need a login? Do I need to
subscribe? And can I-can you-do it for free? Well, in this video, I'm going to walk you through how
to join somebody else's Zoom meeting and I'm going to show you how to silence yourself-how to mute
yourself so that you don't have any background noise going through to the other people.
How to turn off your camera as well. And even how to change the background if you want to do that.
Now I've included some timestamps here if you want to skip ahead to a particular part of the video,
and you'll also find those timestamps in the description beneath the video. So what do you do
when you receive a Zoom meeting invite? Oh a Zoom meeting invite from me! I think I'll go to that!
Oh I’ve got to click on this.
I'm going to join this meeting from my laptop so if I click on here-do you see that message? It
says you don't have the Zoom client installed. Well, you can download it now. Now it's totally
free and you can just click on download there and you only have to download it once. I'm on an
Apple Mac and I'm going to click on that. If you are using Windows, it's much the same procedure.
the installation was successful so i now have
zoom installed i have the zoom client installed so i can just move that installation file to the bin
i don't need that anymore so what happens to our meeting well all i needed to do was join the
meeting or sign in now here's the thing is that you don't need to sign up for zoom you don't need
to have a signed up account and so you can just click to join the meeting at the right time but
if you do sign in you get to do things like set up your profile picture so i'm actually going to sign
up and then sign in first is you can go to zoom dot us or just do a google search for zoom and
sign up it's free now to do that you type in your birth date don't worry the data doesn't get
stored but they just want to make sure that you're of a certain age so that you are old enough to be
using zoom you'll get an email you activate that email and then you can sign in to zoom now if your
password doesn't work or if you've just forgotten your password just click on forgot password
and you will get emailed a link where you can reset your password
so once you do that you sign in now we're not in the zoom meeting all we're doing is
signing into our own account on zoom and you can sign up for zoom for free now on the free
plan it's forever free and you can host up to 100 participants you probably don't want to do that
and you can have an unlimited group meeting so a group meeting means more than two of you or more
than two devices in the meeting if there's three of you or one of you is logged in from
two different devices then there's a limit of 40 minutes but if it's just one-on-one
well you've got a 30-hour time limit well these are australian prices you can change the currency
up here if you want to i'm going with the free option here of zoom okay so now that we've got
the zoom app installed we've only got to do that once and now i can click on this meeting link
it says we want to open the application i'll say yeah let's always do that
yes well when does this meeting start well this meeting is starting a little bit later
than now so at least i'm able to go in and test the audio so here let me do that right now
and so this is a good way for you to test ahead of time is your video working
is your microphone working so you can see that i'm testing the mic
right now you can see that that's moving as i speak i can test the speaker as well nice and easy
hey has this video helped you so far if it has then hit that like button
and there are a few other options like to if you've got a lot of background noise and so on
otherwise you can just leave that as auto now what about the video let's have a look at that
so this is a way of checking your camera am i sitting in no i'm not even sitting in okay
i need to sit in front now the lighting isn't really good at this time but that's okay one
thing that i like to do is mirror my video so that when i put my right hand up it looks to me
like my right hand the way that i usually see it when i see it in the mirror so i'm going to click
on mirror my video i can touch up my appearance make myself look a little bit more you know like
george clooney and i can adjust for low light because the light is not really good where i am
right now now this one is really important here which is always show the video preview dialogue
when joining a video meeting so what that allows you to do is to when you join the meeting first
you get to see yourself on video to see whether am i right in the middle am i in the right spot
have i got anything weird in the background that i want to cut out that sort of thing
so i always like to have this one on and for that matter i can always leave it as stop
my video when joining a meeting so that when you come in your camera is off which is kind of good
gives you a bit more control and then when you are ready if you ever get ready you can press
start video one other thing that you may want to know about which is background and filters
so let's have a look at that so at the moment you can see that i've got this background here
i've got that bright light in the middle which is not really working too well for me
so i can click on this and background and filters and now if i've got a green screen which i don't
a special makeup screen then i can put in a video background i don't have a green screen so i think
it's going to kick me out yeah bad luck for me that's because i'm on a very very old laptop but
usually you can select another picture so if you click on that plus sign there you get to select
one of your own images if you want now that's all pretty much i'm going to show you at the moment
before you join the meeting except that if you check out my channel you'll find other ones on
how to share your screen go how to record a zoom meeting and now what i'm actually going to do
is start the meeting now i've started the meeting on another device with another account and so i'm
what i'm going to do is go and join that meeting now now i'm going to join that meeting if you
want you can type in the meeting id or you can click on the link i like to click on the link
i'm going to say open so you're going to see what it looks like when i join that meeting
it's going to ask for the passcode here so i'm going to type in the passcode
now the person inviting you to the meeting should give you that passcode
and now look what happens when i go to join this meeting okay once again i can test my speaker and
microphone or i can go join with computer audio which is what i'm going to do now that's actually
me up the top and as you can see it's just got my profile picture in there because i've started the
meeting without video so i'm going to go start video and as soon as i do that you can see me
there up the top so you can see that i had a lot of control there i didn't start the video until
i wanted to until i turned on the video i can mute myself just by hitting that mute button nobody
will hear me you can see that i'm muted now see that that means that nobody is going to hear me
i can unmute myself and then they can hear me again of course i can stop the video
and then it goes back to the profile picture now if you want to chat in a zoom meeting
then you can do that you just click on this chat button and that allows you
to talk to somebody else or maybe talk to everybody
by writing especially if you don't want to talk now if you want to leave the meeting
then you just click on leave and leave meeting and you'll see that that will disappear okay
now you've probably got other questions about zoom i can't cover it all in one video but i do have
a whole string of other videos about how to hold better zoom meetings and you'll find them on
my channel how to do recordings if you get to that point how to change your profile picture
and a whole lot more