If you have not yet learned the basic hosting features, first click here to review those
The following YouTube tutorial does a great job of highlighting more advanced features available to hosts. Beneath the video you will find links to jump directly to specific features being discussed in the video. If you do not have 15 minutes to view all of the features, we have highlighted the most helpful advanced features.
This video clip starts 7 minutes in and cover many helpful tips for hosting a Zoom session. You will notice that this instructor has chosen to show the “Video” (webcams) for all users. The final minutes of this video, starting at 24 minutes, discuss the use of breakout groups, which may not be necessary for your group.
Features Discussed
7:54 Mute All Speakers
8:58 Spotlight (focus the attention on) one person’s video
9:45 Record a zoom meeting
10:13 Gallery vs. Speaker Views when everyone is displaying their webcam
11:25 Positioning the zoom window, so it looks like you’re looking directly at the camera
12:51 Mute yourself or stop your video
13:19 Advanced audio or video settings, including mirror effect, “touch up my appearance”, enable HD, etc.
15:05 View chat room
15:23 Change how your name is displayed in meeting
15:45 Chat privately with another participant
16:13 Save chat transcript / chat role in zoom
17:09 Advanced Settings
17:52 Share your computer screen
18:35 Share the screen of your iPhone / iPad / Android device
19:36 Stop your screen share
21:10 When screen sharing, how to move your little video around to not cover what you are seeing
21:16 Annotate (draw) on a screen share
21:51 Remote Control: giving another participant ability to control your mouse
21:30 Viewing the Chat box when you’re in screen-sharing mode
23:25 Share screen WITH sound so you can play a video for your participants and watch together
Breakout Rooms
22:50 Enable breakout groups in Zoom
25:48 How to do Breakout Rooms in Zoom
26:10 You can rename breakout rooms, or move people from one room to another
26:27 Before starting the breakout room, unmute all so they don’t have to remember to do that themselves, and also recommend an order of speaking, e.g. alphabetical by first name
27:58 How to join a breakout room (as an admin)
28:47 You can’t hear what Leslie is saying because I didn’t record this video with allowing the computer sound to be heard, sorry 🙂 She was saying she’ll test the chat once I leave the room, to see if it comes through to the main chat. (It doesn’t.)
29:08 Re-size the zoom video windows by clicking & dragging either bottom corner
29:35 How to Broadcast a Message (an announcement text) to everyone in the breakout rooms
30:40 Tip: After breakout room, be sure to spotlight your own video again, so people know they’re back in the main room.
Click here to learn more about breakout groups.