Herman Drost: Hey, I'm just bringing on my daughter on this Zoom window for this one-to-one
meeting. Hi, Michelle. How are you doing? Michelle Drost: Hi, dad. How are you?
Herman: Do you want to do a meeting online but don't know where to start? Zoom is a cloud-based
video conferencing platform where you can hold online meetings, webinars, classes, all
from the comfort of your own home. In this Zoom basic tutorial, you'll learn how to host
a meeting, how to join a meeting, how to invite participants, how to manage a Zoom meeting,
Zoom users, pros and cons of using Zoom, and how to prevent Zoom-bombing.
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Go to zoom.us. Click Sign up, it's free. If you already have a Zoom account, just click
Sign in. I've already got an account. I'm going to click Sign in. Click Sign in with
Google. Choose your Google account. Click Host a Meeting. I'm going to choose With Video
On. Click Open zoom.us. You also have the option to download the app and run Zoom. I'm
going to click Open zoom.us. Now, I can host my meeting.
Alternatively, you can download the Zoom app, which I have here. I just click on the Zoom
app. Click New Meeting. Now, I have a new meeting, and I can invite participants. Just
click on Invite. I can copy the URL. I can send an email via Default Email, Gmail, or
Yahoo mail. I'm going to copy the invitation. Then I just
paste it into Notepad, and says Join Zoom Meeting. It gives you the URL, the Meeting
ID, and the password. This is the meeting URL that you would give to participants. You
could send it via email or send it via social media sites.
Hey, I'm just bringing on my daughter on this Zoom window for this one-to-one meeting. Hi,
Michelle. How are you doing? Michelle: Hi, dad. How are you?
Herman: Very good. I'm just doing a test here. I'm hosting a meeting with you. I'm just showing
the features on my side versus the features on your side. What kind of features do you
see on your side? Michelle: I have Mute, Stop Video, Invite,
Participants, Share screen, Chat, Record, Reactions.
Herman: Great. That's exactly the same that I have. At the top right here, I got Speaker
View, so if I click on that, I just see you in the window and myself is just in the little
filmstrip at the top. If I click on Gallery View, then I can do the window side by side.
If I click on Mute, then I guess I can mute myself, then I put on again. Then Stop Videos,
so I could stop my videos so you don't see me at all, and then I can go back on again.
Then I've also got some different video settings there. I can also choose a virtual background,
so I could try some different backgrounds if I wanted to. It looks a bit weird though
at my end. How is it look at your end? Michelle: It looks pretty virtual.
Herman: [chuckles] I think I'll go back to the original here. Then I've also got Invite,
so if I want to invite more people, I can copy the URL and send it to them. If I click
on Manage Participants, then I've got a chatbox over here with myself and Michelle, and then
I can mute her. Can you hear me now? Michelle: You can hear me?
Herman: I can hear you. If I click on More, I can stop her video. I can make her the host.
I can also record the meeting. That's pretty handy because I could keep her recording.
Then I got Mute All down the bottom, and if I click on More, I can mute participants on
entry so when they come on, say, if you came on, then your audio wouldn't be working because
I would have you muted. Then I can also allow participants to unmute themselves, so you
have that ability to mute or unlock. I guess one thing would be if you had more than one
person and they all started speaking at the same time, you get a kind of messy people
talking over the top of each other. How do I look like in your size? Is that pretty clear?
Michelle: Pretty clear. You're on the left side of my screen, and then my picture is
right next to yours. Herman: Okay, that's pretty good. Then if
you do the Speaker View, then it's just me or just you there?
Michelle: Speaker View, you're blown up on my screen, and then my icon is really small.
Herman: Okay, a pretty good system just for a quick one-on-one meeting. I just sent you
the link, you open it up. Did you have to download the software at all? Or you just
click on the link and it worked? Michelle: You don't have to download it. You
just click on the link and that takes you to the--
Herman: Okay, so you don't have to download the software.
Michelle: No. Herman: Wow, that's pretty cool. You're on
a Mac or PC? Michelle: PC.
Herman: PC. I'm on a Mac, you're on a PC, so it's compatible with both PC, Macs, phones,
iPads, I guess everything. If you have the Zoom app installed on your desktop, just click
Join. Enter your Meeting ID or Personal Link Name that you received from the invite. Just
paste your Meeting ID in there. Then just click Join.
If you want to join from your browser, just enter it into the browser address bar, click
Open zoom.us, or you can download and run the Zoom app. Click Open zoom.us. Now, you
can join the meeting. You can join from Windows or Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, web browser,
email, messaging, and telephone. If I click on Share, then I can share my desktop.
I can share my Chrome. I can share my iMac. I can share my phone through AirPlay if I
have that setup. I can share my text and edit notes, and I can share my phone if it's connected
with a cable. I like this one a lot, it's a whiteboard,
so I can click whiteboard, and then I can add some text and draw, draw a face. Eraser
so I can erase that. Erase my drawing and select the format so I can try different colors.
If I have to draw, for instance, I can do different colors. I can undo it. I can redo
it. I can clear all drawings, and I can save them. I can have one participant that can
share at a time. I can have multiple participants that can share simultaneously.
I have some Advanced Sharing Options. One participant can share at a time, multiple
participants can share simultaneously, only the host can share, all participants can share.
I also have a chat option. I can put some text and the messages here. I can also add
a URL if I wanted to, so I can share that in the chat.
I can record my screen but it'll just record the meeting, but it won't record the chat.
If I click Record, it says, "You are muted. No audio will be recorded." If I unmute myself,
I can click Record, and says, "Recording." You've got widescreen, enable HD, mirror my
video, you can also touch up my appearance. If I click on that, my face looks a bit smoother,
don't you think? I can always display participant name on their
videos, turn off my video when joining a meeting, always show video preview when joining a video
meeting, and hide non-video participants, spotlight my video when speaking. It says,
"If you want to keep this meeting open, please assign another Host before you click Leave
Meeting." End Meeting for All, click End Meeting for All. It says, "You have a recording that
needs to be converted before viewing. You may convert your recording later by double-clicking
.zoom file located in the recording folder" I now have a recording of my Zoom meeting.
The beauty of using Zoom is that you can use it for online meetings, coaching, online classes,
video conferencing, audio conferencing, events, live chat, record your screen, and upload
your recording to YouTube. Let me know in the comments below what you use Zoom for.
I'd like to know, and I'm sure others would too.
Here are the pros and cons of using Zoom. You can have unlimited one-to-one meetings
with a free account. All you have to do is send the participants a Zoom link. If there's
three or more participants, you have a time limit of 40 minutes. Number two, you can join
the meeting from any device. Participants can join from their computer, laptop, tablet,
or even their phone. The cons are, you have to download the Zoom
app when joining from your phone. Number three, share your screen. The host can share their
screen or even a participant can share their screen. You also have the option to draw on
a whiteboard. Number four, record meetings. Even with a
free account, Zoom will automatically record the meeting as a .mp4 file. You can then upload
it to YouTube. The cons are, is that YouTube doesn't record the chatbox. You also can't
share the comments on the Zoom screen. Zoom-bombing is when an uninvited guest hacks
into your meeting. Recently, Zoom came out with some precautions. They said, "When using
Zoom for online classrooms, teachers are advised to make meetings private and require a password,
or use the waiting room feature to control the admittance of additional people. Links
to a teleconference or classroom should be sent directly to the individual participants
and never be publicly available on a social media post. Those managing their conference
in Zoom should change the screen sharing option to Host Only." They've also said, "We've chosen
to enable passwords on your meetings and turn on Waiting Rooms by default as additional
security enhancements to protect your privacy." So you can schedule a meeting with your personal
Meeting ID, then your password will automatically be enabled. When attendees join a zoom meeting
with their Meeting ID, they'll have to enter a password to gain access to the meeting.
Let me ask you a question. Do you want to know how to live stream on YouTube? If that's
a yes, watch my next video on how to live stream from your desktop or mobile phone.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in the next video