Communicate before, during, and after a meeting with In-Meeting Chat and Zoom Team Chat.
As it sounds, in-meeting chat is a space for participants to exchange messages, reactions,
or files during a Zoom Meeting.
Zoom Team Chat is Zoom’s persistent chat tool where you can communicate with your contacts
at any time.
And now you can automatically continue great conversations from in-meeting chat to Zoom
Team Chat!
But first, let’s go to the Zoom web portal, and explore some in-meeting chat settings
in action.
Along the left side, click Settings, then In-Meeting (Basic).
Under Meeting Chat, select who participants will be allowed to chat with by default for
meetings that you host.
What you configure can be seen once chat is launched during a meeting and may include:
No one, Hosts and co-hosts only, Everyone in the meeting publically, or, everyone and
any one participant directly or privately.
For this option to appear, you must first scroll a bit lower on the page and enable
Direct messages.
Returning above, enable and adjust who may save chats from the meeting.
In the meeting, if enabled, click the three dots or more menu and then Save Chat.
The text transcript will automatically download locally on your machine and will contain all
chats up to that point except direct chats between other participants, which will be
kept private.
Next, under New meeting chat experience, hosts may choose to enable enhanced in-meeting chat
capabilities for meetings they host.
For example, thread replies to messages, format text, and more.
Additionally, they may allow participants to delete messages, react with emojis, and
send screenshots.
A bit further down on the page, disable or enable participants to Send files via meeting
chat.
In the meeting, participants will be able to click the file icon in the message window
and attach and send a compatible file from their computer.
Want to be able to keep a great conversation going after the meeting?
When scheduling a meeting from the Zoom web portal, desktop client, mobile app, Outlook
add-in, Google addon, or Chrome/Firefox scheduler extensions, locate the Invitees or Attendees
section.
Just below, select Enable a dedicated group chat for this meeting.
You may need to input at least one invitee for this option to appear, and you must add
one or more invitees in order to save with a group chat.
If this is a recurring meeting, you will only need to select this once, and only one group
chat will be created for the entire series.
After the meeting starts, any messages exchanged will also automatically appear in the group
chat within Zoom Team Chat–except for direct messages between participants and file attachments.
These conversations can be continued after or between meetings.
You may customize certain settings for this group chat as you would any other–within
the collapsible more actions menu on the right.
To kick off a discussion before the meeting starts, locate and click the upcoming meeting
within the Meetings tab of the Zoom desktop client and click Message Attendees.
There you have it; communicate and collaborate with your team in and out of meetings!