Meeting optionsĮnable join before host: if you’re organising a webinar or event-style online gathering, it’s a good idea to leave this unticked. Participants dialling in by phone will have to pay their normal call rate. Now click "Edit" underneath and change the default country to United Kingdom. If people need to join by phone, select "Both". If you're experiencing poor connection once the call has started, you can always turn your webcam off.Īudio: if you know nobody will be dialling in by phone, or that the meeting won't work for people joining in this way you can select "Computer audio". Being able to see each other is an important way of improving online communication and making it more natural. Video: tick "on" for both host and participant. It’s useful to have your video automatically turned on and it’s a nice way to nudge participants to have their webcams on too. Meeting ID: Select "generate automatically". With the increase of 'Zoombombing' it's recommended that you set a meeting password.
Require meeting password: this means people need a password to enter the meeting. It’s a quick and easy way to set up a meeting but it's also easier for uninvited people to join and 'Zoombomb' your meeting as the same link (and password, unless you manually change it) is used multiple times. Your Personal Meeting ID is a permanent meeting link that you can use over and over for different meetings. However if you're finding this difficult, you can use your Personal Meeting ID. You can use your Personal Meeting ID link or set up a unique meeting (instructions below).įor security reasons it's strongly recommended that you set up a unique meeting. There are 2 ways you can set up a meeting. If you’d like to use one of our paid accounts you can email us at. This is usually manageable for group meetings, but in cases where you need unlimited call times – such as open or formal meetings or online events – we have a few paid accounts that are available for groups.
You can easily get around this by ending the call and restarting it immediately, which refreshes the limit.
There are some limitations to free accounts, most notably, calls are limited to 40 minutes. We encourage you to create and use a free Zoom account for your meetings. While you don’t need an account to join a Zoom meeting, you will need one to set up meetings.
In this instance you won’t be able to use host controls such as muting participants or recording the meeting. Caveat: you can also set up the meeting so that it runs without a host, for instance, if you create the meeting with your account but you’re not able to attend the meeting yourself. The only person that needs an account is the person setting up and running the meeting: the ”host”. The main benefit of Zoom is that anyone with a meeting link can join your call, without needing an account, making meetings or online events easy and accessible. Things may appear slightly differently on other operating systems or devices, such as Macs, tablets or smartphones.
Throughout this guide, the images used are from a Windows machine.