- Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
- Click Meetings, and click Schedule a Meeting.
- Select the meeting options. Note that some of these options might not be available if they were disabled and locked to the off position at the account or group level.
- Topic: Enter a topic or name for your meeting.
- Description: Enter in an optional meeting description.
- Use a template: Apply a meeting template.
- When: Select a date and time for your meeting. You can manually enter any time and press enter to select it. For example, you can enter 15 in the minutes field.
- Duration: Choose the approximate duration of the meeting. This is only for scheduling purposes. The meeting will not end after this length of time.
- Time Zone: By default, Zoom will use the time zone set in your profile. Click the drop-down menu to select a different time zone.
- Recurring meeting: Check if you would like a recurring meeting(the meeting ID will remain the same for each session). This will open up additional recurrence options.
- Recurrence: Select how often you need the meeting to recur: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or No Fixed Time. Meetings can recur up to 50 times, so if you need more than 50 recurrences, use the No Fixed Time option.
- The other recurrence options will depend on how often the meeting recurs. You can configure the meeting to end after a set amount of occurrences or have the recurring meeting end on a specific date.
- List this meeting in the Public Events List: Add the meeting to a public calendar associated with your vanity URL.
- Registration: Check this option if your meeting will require registration. Instead of a join link for your participants, you will be provided a registration link. If registration is required and the meeting is reoccurring, choose one of these options:
- Attendees register once and can attend any of the occurrences: Registrants can attend all of the occurrences. All dates and times of the meeting will be listed and the registrant will be registered for all occurrences.
- Attendees need to register for each occurrence to attend: Registrants need to register separately for each occurrence to attend. They can only choose one date and time on the registrant page.
- Attendees register once and can choose one or more occurrences to attend: Registrants register once and can choose one or more occurrences to attend. They will need to select which dates and times they would like to attend and they will only be registered for those occurrences. They can choose multiple options.
- Schedule For*: If you have scheduling privilege for another user, you will be able to choose who you want to schedule for from the dropdown menu.
Note: When you assign scheduling privileges to other users in the Zoom web portal, you can choose if these users can manage your meetings that are marked as private in Outlook or Google Calendar. If the users cannot manage private events, they cannot see the invite link, meeting topic, or attendee list. - Meeting ID
- Generate Automatically: Generate a random unique meeting ID.
- Personal Meeting ID*: Use your Personal Meeting ID.
- Security
- Passcode: Enter a meeting passcode. Joining participants will be required to input this before joining your scheduled meeting.
Note: The meeting passcode must meet complexity requirements set by your admin. - Waiting Room: Enable Waiting Room for the meeting.
- Require authentication to join: Restrict access to the meeting so that only signed-in users can join.
Note: If you select Sign in to Zoom with specified domain, you can't add any domains that are included on the domain block list.
- Passcode: Enter a meeting passcode. Joining participants will be required to input this before joining your scheduled meeting.
- Video
- Host: Choose if you would like the host's video on or off when joining the meeting. Even if you choose off, the host will have the option to start their video.
- Participants: Choose if you would like the participants' videos on or off when joining the meeting. Even if you choose off, the participants will have the option to start their video.
- Audio*: Allow users to call in using Telephone only, Computer Audio only, Both, or 3rd Party Audio (if enabled for your account).
- Dial in From: If Telephone or Both is enabled for this meeting, click Edit to select the dial-in countries to include in the invitation. By default, this includes your Global Dial-In Countries listed in your meeting settings.
- Meeting options
- Allow participants to join before start time: Allow participants to join the meeting without you or before you join. If enabled, you can also choose how far in advance of the scheduled start time you wish them to be able to join: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or Anytime.
Note: The meeting will end after 40-minutes for Basic (free) users. - Mute participants on entry: If join before host is not enabled, mute participants as they join the meeting. Participants can unmute themselves after joining the meeting.
Note: To mute all participants currently in a meeting, see the options to manage participants. - Add watermark that identifies the viewing participant: Superimpose an image, consisting of a portion of a meeting participant’s own email address, onto the shared content they are viewing and the video of the person who is sharing their screen. You admin can enable this by default and prevent you from changing it.
- Breakout Room pre-assign*: Pre-assign participants to breakout rooms.
- Automatically record meeting: Select if you want to record On the local computer or In the cloud.
- Enable focus mode when meeting starts: Automatically start the meeting with focus mode enabled, in order to provide fewer distractions to all meeting participants. This feature requires Zoom client version 5.9.0 or higher.
- Enable additional data center regions for this meeting*
- Approve or block entry to users from specific regions/countries: Allow users from specific regions to join your meetings; or block users from specific regions from joining your meetings. Users' region/country is determined by their IP address.
Note: You change the default regions/countries in your web portal settings. - Alternative hosts: Enter the email address of another Licensed Zoom user on your account to allow them to start the meeting in your absence. If enabled, you can also select the check box to Allow alternative hosts to add or edit polls. This feature requires Zoom client version 5.8.0 or higher.
- Interpretation (only supported in Windows and macOS clients)*: Enable language interpretation for the meeting.
- Allow participants to join before start time: Allow participants to join the meeting without you or before you join. If enabled, you can also choose how far in advance of the scheduled start time you wish them to be able to join: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or Anytime.
- Save to finish.
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Created by: Mary Kyner
Modified on: Wed, 21 Sep, 2022 at 10:52 AM
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