Hello everyone, welcome to another tutorial from windowslovers.com and today in
this tutorial, I'm gonna talk about zoom. this is the application that has gained
a lot of hype with recent lockdowns and coronavirus lockdowns
working from home situations and how to basically use the zoom. I'm not gonna go
into much detail on how to create a meetings or how to host a meeting but
I'm gonna target a particular topic that being that can be or that might be
useful for a lot of users that have never used Zoom before or that do not
want to sign up for zoom but still want to access or join the zoom meetings. so
zoom is a free application that you can download install on your computer
and then host meetings and join in meetings. It wouldn't be an ideal
application for you to do video chats with your friends and family but it's a
very good application to host a corporate meetings or daily catch ups
with your teammates in a corporate environment.
so in this tutorial I'm going to show you can join zoom meetings from your
browser itself without having to install their application and without having to
sign up for the application. so there's definitely limitations to this thing,so if
you've been invited to a zoom meeting your email will look something like this.
so depending on if you require a password, there will be a password
underneath your meeting ID or you will be just given a URL to join the meeting.
so if you want to join a meeting you just click on the link
and it will prompt you to download and run the zoom. so at the bottom of the page,
you can see if you cannot download or run the application you can click join from
the browser. so all you go do is just click on join from your browser. it'll
ask you for your name and then you just gotta click on join and that's how you can join a zoom
meeting from your browser itself.so there's a couple of things you gotta
make sure before you can actually join the meetings on your end. so first you've
got to make sure you have either Google Chrome or you have Microsoft edge
browser installed. so not the old Microsoft edge browser, but the new
version of Microsoft edge browser that's actually built on top of Google Chrome.
so you will be able to join meetings from old edge browser but the only
problem you will have is you won't be able to enable your speakers on that
browser. if you don't have the latest version of Microsoft edge you won't be
able to hear anything in the meeting. you will be able to join a meeting from the
browser but you won't be able to listen to any of the audio from the
meeting. alright so from your end you're gonna make sure you have google chrome
or Microsoft edge. So whoever's hosting a meeting there's a couple of settings
that they can put in place that might not allow you to join the meeting from
the browse. The first thing is there's an option called, only authenticated
users can join the meetings from the web client. so if that options in is enabled,
you won't be able to join the meeting without signing in. So that means you'll
have to sign up for zoom account and then you'll be able to sign in from the
browser itself. The second settings is there's a setting called
join from the browser, so you've got to make sure oh you can ask the person
who's ever hosting the meeting to enable join from the browser. so depending on
your colleague depending if the person who's hosting the meeting is
a colleague or friend you can ask them to enable that option for you to be able
to join from the browser . if it's a third party that's actually hosting the
meeting you have very less control on how you can actually join the
meeting and just have to follow the instructions that were given to you,
which might mean that you might have to download the zoom application and also
sign up for zoom. But if you wanna know that you were able to join from a browser, first you
gotta go download Google Chrome or you got to make sure you have Google Chrome
or if you don't want to download Google Chrome you're going to make sure you
have the latest version of Microsoft edge and you all are gotta do is open
the link and join from the browser. So I hope that helps a lot of people that are
working from home and trying to join a meeting but there's it's very confusing
and you don't want download an application and there's there might be
and you might be working for an organization that has this application
policies where you cannot download Zoom application. So in that case, this
is very helpful you can if you can you can still join a meeting as long as you
have Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Give this video a thumbs up if this has
helped and leave you any issues or any questions in the comments below Thank You.