Zoom Exercises

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To complete the exercises below, you will need a small group consisting of yourself and at least two others. To find your Zoom Group, navigate to People on the left-hand sidebar and then the Groups tab.

 

Manage the Waiting Room

• Refer to 4Help Video Conferencing - How to Hold Zoom Conferences on a PC or Mobile Device. Look for when and why you should enable the waiting room feature.
• Then, check out Zoom’s guide to waiting rooms Links to an external site. to learn how to manage incoming participants. 
• Finally, find two or more peers and take turns hosting the meeting. Each person should practice the following:
  • Admit all participants to the meeting simultaneously.
  • Admit only one participant at a time.
  • Return a participant to the waiting room.
  • Remove a participant from the meeting altogether.

 

Manage Breakout Rooms

• Refer to 4Help Video Conferencing - How to Hold Zoom Conferences on a PC or Mobile Device. What information can you finding about using breakout rooms?
• With the same peers from before, try using breakout rooms as both a participant and a host. Each person should practice the following:
  
  • As a host, assign rooms automatically.
  • As a host, assign rooms manually.
  • As a participant in a breakout room, ask for help. 
  • As a host, visit a breakout room. 
  • As a host, send a written message to participants in breakout rooms.