1. Touch Up My Appearance
Learn More: Touch Up My Appearance
2. Use Virtual Backgrounds
Learn More: Virtual Background
3. Record Your Zoom Calls
Learn More: Local Recording
4. Take Control as the Meeting Host
- Mute participants: a quick way to make silence all background audio
- Request that a participant unmutes: Hover over a participant and click More for this option
- Stop a participant's video: Hover over a participant and click More for these option
- Request that participant starts their video: Hover over a participant and click More for these option
- Prevent participants from screen sharing: click the arrow next to Share Screen and click Advanced Sharing Options. Under Who Can Share, choose Only Host
- Rename a participant: Hover over a participant and click More for this option
- Choose to play an enter or exit chime
- Lock the meeting to prevent anyone new from joining
Learn More: Managing Participants in a Meeting
5. Emoji Reactions
Learn More: Meeting Reactions
6. Schedule Recurring Meetings
- Open the Zoom app for Mac or PC (or on the web)
- Click Schedule to setup your meeting.
- Under the title of your meeting, click the Recurring Meeting checkbox.
- Then, fill in the rest of your details and click Schedule.
This will open your default calendar app, (Outlook or Google Calendar), where you can use the recurring event options in your calendar to choose the times you want this meeting to be held. The meeting will repeat for as many times as you need it and the same URL will be used for each meeting. You can also invite people to the meeting from your calendar so that they get all the meeting info they need.
Learn More: Scheduling Recurring Meetings
7. Take Attendance
8. Create Breakout Rooms
Learn More: Getting Started With Breakout Rooms
9. Annotation Tools
Learn More: Using Annotation Tools on a Shared Screen or Whiteboard
10. Tech Support
Learn More: Remote Support Session
Bonus Tip: The Waiting Room
Learn More: Waiting Room