Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time I'm going to be talking to you about Zoom and just getting started with
it. If you're brand new to this and haven't used it before or you've been invited to a
Zoom meeting but never hosted one, I'm going to give you the basics and getting started with it
So the first thing is I got the little app here, but we're going to come back to that in a minute.
Now the website you would go to zoom.us and it gives you information on here. It tells you under
the pricing section. You can use it for free of course. If you're being invited to a meeting,
it doesn't cost you anything, but if you're hosting a meeting, there's various price
levels from free to 270 dollars for the larger packages here and it depends on
how many people you're going to be having in your meeting, how long the meetings are for,
and there's some other details and features that you get as you get into the higher pricing.
So we're going to be working with the free one here today, it's just a one-to-one meeting. It's
just one or I guess two participants, even though it's just me, playing with my own other computer.
Now from the home page it doesn't give you a obvious link here to download that i could see
right away... at the top where i would expect it to be. So you got to scroll all the way down
here to the bottom, there's download. Or you can just go to zoom.us/download. Even doing a
google search it shows up the download link right there on the google page.
Now on there's, the first thing you're going to want is the first one, is the
zoom client for meetings. There are other plugins and things you'll find in here but
these are all extra extensions and plugins for different programs that you may want.
It might be beneficial to you, but you don't need to use them other than if you're using it on your
phone, then you want to get the particular app on your phone, whether it's for an Apple or Android
and there's some other features here as well. We're not going to be getting into that in
this video, but I want you to be aware that there's all these extra plugins and features
that you can use depending on how deep you're getting into this.
So really at the top of the downloads page we're just going to be working with the zoom client.
So when you first open the app you're going to have a join meeting and sign in. Now if you have
been invited to a meeting, you can just go to join a meeting,
but if you're going to be hosting a meeting, we're going to go to sign in.
Now I'm going to be doing both from this end. So we're going to go to sign in
and I'm going to use my login here. Now before you can sign in you have to sign up for an account.
So you could, they give you a few different ways of signing up if you wanted to make use of google
or facebook which are two secure ways and there's sso as well. I'm gonna go to sign up for free.
So for verification purposes you need to put in your date of birth. So
I'm gonna just block this out.
and now I'm able to provide my email.
and I go to sign up
and of course you're prompted with this annoying security feature that
nobody really seems to like, but it's helpful feature to have.
Just for everyone's security. So now it's sent an email to your email address to
confirm that it's you and we have to go through that to verify the
correct person is signing up for this. So it's not somebody spoofing somebody else.
So I'm going to check my email and come back.
So in the email you should have something like this that says to activate the account.
So we just want to click on the link here to activate it.
It brings us back to the website here and prompts us
if we're signing up on behalf of a school or not. So you'll want to answer that appropriately
and then you can now fill in your contact details and create yourself a password.
and then hit continue
Now it's asking you about inviting colleagues, you don't have to do that at this point
you can just skip this step, and test in a meeting you can do a test meeting as well
or in in my case I'm gonna actually
do one directly. So we're not going to do it through here.
But if you were to go to start a meeting, it downloads a file.
and it then comes up here showing that it's joining a meeting here, and it asks us if we
want to use the computer audio or test the speaker and microphone. I guess we can use this and it's
using the computer audio and it shows that i'm in the meeting, but this isn't very helpful because
you're just in a meeting with yourself and that's not doing much at all. So I don't really like this
test here, but it would be so that you can invite it to to someone else, so this is the same thing
that we're gonna be starting anyway. So I'm going to cancel out of this. End, End for all.
we're going to close all our web browsers.
Because now the bottom line is that we've signed up for an account, we have a email and
password. So we're able to sign in through the app and just start doing a meeting.
So from this point now, I'm going to open it up,
start a meeting, and host it with my second computer.
so I'm just going to sign in
and from here this is what you would be used to
if you're going to be creating a meeting or you're joining a meeting and you can paste in the link
scheduling a meeting or doing a screen share. You can basically do a meeting
that it's just a screen share type meeting. So we're going to go into do a new meeting.
and we'll say we're gonna join with a computer audio
so at the bottom here we've got the participants.
We can see who's in the meeting currently, and it's just myself;
and I can go to invite someone. I can get a link to email to them. I can put in here the
contacts if i had contacts in there to search for or an email address
and i could choose your email service to send the invitation.
I'm going to copy the invite link so it's copied into the clipboard,
so then I can just paste that into a regular email and send to someone.
So I've got my remote computer over here and I've got my main computer that I'm on.
So I'm going to pretend that I sent an email with the link over to the person at this computer,
and from this computer you remember this screen here when we first started with sign in or join.
We're going to go to join a meeting; and we got the meeting ID or a personal link name.
I'm going to paste the link in, which is from the email that was sent and you got your name
and you put in your name there and you can tell it to remember for future meetings. I'm not going
to do that because this is a test. and you can tell it not to connect with the audio if you
just want to watch, and you can turn off the video as well. I don't have a video camera on this one
so it doesn't matter. I'm just going to hit join and then I got a personal pass code that we need.
We got the passcode down here when we go to do the invite.
So that would be included in the link.
If we had emailed that to the person, but I'm just going to type it in here.
Hit join meeting and now it's showing that, that person, please wait the host will let you in soon.
So they're waiting as the second participant for me to let them in and begin the meeting.
So they've been invited but we haven't started it. So we can see that the second participant is on.
I can admit them or remove them, but I invited them, so of course I want to admit them.
Now it shows that they are on,
and I've actually got my webcam cover on, so I'm going to open that up for now.
So at this point now we can see that I'm on the screen.
I'm sharing my camera.
So for me I see myself in the top there and i just see the other participants that i would have at
the bottom here, and on the other screen i can say join the computer audio or leave the audio.
I just double clicked on it by accident but we'll just close that so it's out of the way.
So from here I can see myself and I'm looking to the side because I've actually got two screens.
So I've got my laptop that is right where you are and I've got my second screen over here
which I'm looking at and that's just in case you're wondering why I'm looking over here.
But this is the screen that I'm looking at. I can say I am going to share my screen
and this is something a lot of people were looking at before is sharing a whiteboard.
So I can say I'm going to share the whiteboard and share that so now I've got the whiteboard
on here and I'm going to just make that a bit smaller, so I can see it.
So I'm on my screen here and I can draw and do things with that,
that the participant can see on their screen now, but they're not able to do anything with it.
They're just watching but for me over here i can draw and I can do use the other features
in here. I'm not going to get into that in this particular video, but we do have a lot of the
other features and like the colors and that sort of thing and you can tell that there is a little
bit of a delay even though this is on my same network that I've got the two computers on.
It's still got to go out to the web and access zoom's server and then come back down
but it is responding pretty quick because I'm on a very fast internet here.
So anyway that's sharing this. They can still see me on the side here as you can tell.
So you're able to do just about anything in this meeting now
and it's really just the limit of how many participants you have and those
other features that I mentioned at the beginning of this video.
Otherwise you can have a face-to-face conversation with somebody
and sharing your screen, sharing specific apps, and there's
a lot that you can do. So I guess to end this video I'm going to show you at the very top
you can see that I am sharing my screen so i can say stop the share. So now they just see
me on the video, and of course I wouldn't see this computer here I'm only having control over this.
The person on the receiving end, or the person that was invited could say that they want to
leave the meeting and just hit leave. But from here I can go into more options for the second
participant. I can make them the host and they can take over and then they can share
their screen. Which is great if you have multiple people hosting a meeting from different locations
and you can allow them to record, you can rename them, or put them in a waiting room depending
on some of the things you're doing and that gets into a little bit more advanced features.
You can also remove them. So if you wanted to remove people in particular, just without
canceling the whole meeting, you can just remove a specific person, or you can even report them.
Then... here.... you can... this is where you can also mute everybody.
and they'll be muted. So they can't all be talking and disturbing the meeting
at the same time; and there's a couple other features down under here as well.
When you're ready to end the meeting, once you position the mouse back over this main part of
the screen, you've got a bunch of videos... a bunch of options, and here you can go to stop
this particular video, and that just stops your video sharing but the meeting is still in session.
and then you can do a few things here with the chat,
if you wanted to have a chat going here then you can have a group chat happening.
Hello from host, and then over here, we see that
I said hello from host. So we can open up the chat. Hello from participant,
and then from my end now I can see that I got a response from the participant to everyone.
So you could also have down here to everyone or I can just choose the particular person.
Private message from the host, and here they can see,
whoops I just want to hid the chat, but it's to me directly, direct message. It is private.
So by default it's saying to reply privately. So they can change that back to everyone if
they wanted to or just say hi private and I can see here to me privately. So we can see
on my end as the host it's privately and on their end they see it's direct messages.
So the wording is a little different on both sides but it's the same thing.
They are private messages. So when you're done as the host with this meeting overall,
we'll just... well, in here we can end. You can probably just x out of it as well,
but if you hit end, end the meeting for all, or you can just leave the meeting,
if someone else is hosting it. Then you're not... you could cancel it for everybody or you
could just leave the meeting and let the meeting continue with whoever else is remaining in there.
So I'm gonna say end the meeting for all. It clears it and then on the host
side you can see that the meeting has been ended by the host and we're back at this
screen ready to sign in and host our own meeting or join someone else's meeting.
So that's it for this quick tutorial. I hope you guys did find it helpful.
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and we'll see you in the next video. Thanks so much for watching. Bye for now.