Timestamps are here. Thanks for watching! 2:49 - Basic account settings 3:10 - Scheduling a meeting 4:02 - Recurring meeting 7:45 - Inviting participants to a meeting (registering) 9:05 - Recording a meeting 10:52 - Farley interrupts my video 11:23 - Launching a Zoom call with Shannon 13:06 - Views 14:38 - Screen Sharing 16:39 - Chat 18:29 - Whiteboard

Hey Steve, my wife has been using Zoom for the last two weeks with her class at a local Vancouver college (shes the instructor). The challenges she has worked through are: 1) recommend that if you are teaching a larger group you use mute all participants once you get going otherwise everyones background noise overpowers your presentation or speaking. You need to setup some sort of way to have someone unmute. Can be done by teacher through chat or through video if class is small enough by putting hand up in video screen. 2) When sharing video you MUST turn on share sound (two radio buttons on the bottom of the share screen) before you run the video if you want sound. 3) Breakout rooms can be a great way if you have the class working on a group project and you need a 1:1 with a student. 4) Sharing documents is fairly easy, just gets tricky if you are trying to mark assignments or correct. You need common tools, programs or apps and file share via chat or email. File security can kick in and make file sharing tricky at times. 5) Highly recommend asking class to use earphones to lower background noises for students homes (others may be watching TV or doing other household chores or playing nearby) or to even hear your class attendees. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN NUMBER 1, Don’t forget to setup your home work place studio. Consider what your background is showing. Perhaps your dirty dishes, laundry or last nights TWO empty wine bottles ☹️ are not what you want to be projecting .... and also who else in your household might need to share that space, ie if your class is over several hours, perhaps there is somewhere better than dining room table if others need the kitchen and table. Also if you take a break mute your mic so you don’t have a hot mic moment 🙂. Look at all the new skills we are learning out of necessity!

I needed this, Zoom is so much easier to use than other conferencing tools. My wife Liana, who is also a teacher here in Scotland, is using it daily with her students. But you have showed us much more functionality within the software. Thank you Steve. Stay safe partner. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am technology professional who has just started my own company. After looking at many of the training videos provided by Zoom I decided to subscribe and address my unanswered questions by experimenting with the product. Your video answered many of my questions about the scheduling, starting, and in meeting workflow. THank you very much.

Thanks Steve! I'm a member of a local U3A and we used to meet weekly to help each other learn various things. Having had a look at Zoom and your video I think we can use it to keep up or social and intellectual engagement. Keep up your excellent work and optimism, the latter is one of the most important weapons to get us through this.

Working in adult education and looking to engage our learners so this is perfect! Thanks Steve!

The backgrounds are really useful! For team meetings it can be a fun start, but also during this time that not always is the best spot in the house free, having the opportunity of putting a background to cover the real place, it's super useful!

I am a teacher in Fl, thank you so much for this great video in this crazy time. You have eased some of the anxiety I am feeling about getting set up. Clear and easy to understand.

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! I just received an email from our school superintendent who briefed us about the expectations of the teachers to use Zoom for the rest of this school year. What a blessing it was to click on KZfaq and see your informative video! You certainly put this educator at ease. Stay safe-Stay Well-Keep posting:)

I loved your tutorial about Zoom. When using it for the first time, everything went very well because of your clear teaching. Thanks again and I will definitely watch more of your videos.

Thanks, Steve! You made this so clear and understandable. Not like most tech guys who just zip through things in 30 seconds & expect everyone to get it.

Dude, love the accent and THANK YOU so much for this video...another teacher wanting to learn ZOOM here in isolated TEXAS! God bless, stay safe!

Lockdown in the Netherlands is a fact, moving us to zoom. Thx a million for your video. Helpful and comprehensive . Stay safe for you and your dear ones.

That was fantastic and simple! Thank you so much!!!!

Thanks, Steve. Just about to start my first Zoom conference with Board of Directors for the local senior's society. Perfect timing.

Steve this is an excellent overview regarding the capabilities of Zoom for both business and personal use. I thank you for developing this video it is most helpful.

Thanks again, Steve and Shannon. My daughter is a principal and I will share this with her.

Good video! I have used Zoom for about five years. The Chat can be saved and sent to your participants afterward. It's saved as a text file.

Thanks Steve. I've heard about Zoom and I didn't know anything about it. You gave a great explanation and demonstration as you usually do. Blessings to you and your family.

Thank you from Washington, USA! I'm an instructor for health science and patient care at several state colleges and I'm learning how to Zoom. Good stuff, it has helped a lot, thanks again!

Nice teacher-friendly job, Steve - appreciated. Will share with my three daughters who are all teachers. Best Regards - stay safe! Mike

Thank you so much! As I enter a world teaching from home, this is one of the easiest videos explaining Zoom!

Dear Mr. Dotto: Wow! You are the answer to my "prayer." I am an elected Precinct Committee Person (PCP) of the Multnomah Democratic party in Portland, Oregon (somewhere south of you) we just began to use Zoom during the COVID-19 emergency so we could still meet and get things done! >> How fortuitous in your dedication to humanity that you are sharing your learning with the world. >> I knew I liked Canada for a good reason! No joking, thank you so so so much! And Mrs. Dotto, thank you for your appearance, too: teachers are the best, after all. Respectfully, Neil.

Hey steve loved the interaction and it helped me understand the benefit of zoom.

HEY STEVE ITS GREAT YOUR ENGLISH IH SOPHISTICATED NATIVE ,ITS A GREAT JOB YOU HAVE DONE PLEASE KEEP IT UP,PLEASE PLEASE

Nice, Steve and perfect timing as folks are seeking to maintain some levels of contact during these times.

I enjoy your bullet point, step by step(not taking for granted our supposed common sense) teaching. Thank you. I am a retired Special Needs Teacher of the basics: Math, Reading, Writing, Study Skills to prepare students to survive in these areas related to day to day life! So remote is good for me as I can mute if there is any behavior issues or other concerns . This allows me to focus on an individual student or parent without any disruption to others.

Over a year later the content is still relevant to this baby boomer! Thank you Dotto's

Steve, thank you so much for this educational video, this is going to help my team in this time of crisis and probably in the future as well.

Thanks, Steve. Timely -- and delightful as always. So great to see Shannon, and Farley's cameo was perfectly executed.

We are blessed to have brilliant communicators like you Steve. Many thanks for this; as a KZfaq guitar-teacher it is invaluable and you have given me some food for thought. Just gotta get up to speed now with Zoom!

Just started using Zoom for my meditation classes. A friend recommended your tutorial and i checked out how you teach, and it was very clear and easy to follow. Thanks for doing what you are doing

Thank you for doing this Steve. I appreciate your plain talk. This will be a valuable tool for sure.

Nice job. Helpful, indeed. Sure makes it helpful to consider this “minimal hassle” approach. I feel empowered to “jump in” and give it a GO.

Thank you for the video Steve. The city I work for just started using Zoom this week to hold council and other meetings.

Thank you Steve (and Shannon), we are using Zoom to continue with our nurse aide training classes (in Colorado) and this video will really help my instructors to be successful. Take care and stay well!

Thank you Steve. I'm an author and run several writer's groups. Missing the connections i decided to try Zoom for our next meeting. Having never used Zoom i was delighted to find your video. You made it so easy I'm excited to get going. Thanks

Thank you so much! I'm a teacher and this certainly took away some of my anxiety!

Thank you for this helpful tutorial. I’m an old fashion administrator of a small daycare told to do remote teaching with no training at all. This video helped me tremendously and I will let my teachers watch it at their orientation meeting to get ready for the school year!!! 😊

Hi Steve and Shannon. This is the best video on Zoom! I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks with classes and I’m always looking for ways to improve the experience for students (adults who have different levels of computer experience). I got some great tips here, like having students use headphones for noise reduction). And I enjoyed the appearance of your doggie. That was hilarious. At some point during our classes people’s dogs and cats drop in and they make everybody laugh. Thanks so much for your help. You’ve got a new subscriber!

Great tutorial, Steve! I noticed you didn't have "enable sound" ticked, but you had sound on your video. That's the one that always gets me when I do screen sharing. Love Zoom and use it nearly every day.

Thanks a million, this is a great intro. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this!!! It's really practical, encouraging and enlightening and may well be the future for a while!!!!!!:-))))) Stay safe and sound!!

Very clear and provides me with all that I need to start my online class this week. Thanks sooo much! 🙏🏻😇

My wife is using Zoom used for counselling sessions for a while now but is almost full time on it as F2F meetings and travel are banned. If you speak to folks at Zoom please give them our great thanks for keeping thi service running at this crazy time.❤👍

Thank you so much, this was extremely valuable on many levels.

I have been watching your vid’s since the days you left TV. How long should it take for you to learn the content so fluent You are amazing.

Thank you Steve and Shannon. Your video has made me much more comfortable in giving Zoom a try and also given me some great ideas on how to use Zoom with my students. A shout-out to Zoom for lifting the time limit in Canada and across the world.

Thank you. If these online tools get much better, there won’t be any need for face-to-face. Great instruction, as always.

This is a first for me. Your tutorial was so well presented and easy to understand that I feel compelled to compliment you on a job well done. Meeting Shannon and Farley was a treat as it created a personal relationship unusual in informational videos. BTW I have just now subscribed to your KZfaq channel and look forward to viewing your other posts. Will introduce my self in a more appropriate format. AGAIN; Thank you for helping me to understand some of the features of ZOOM . I am sure I will be replaying this video multiple times.

Another great tutorial Steve, as always. Love the dog interaction. I believe that any participant can share his/her screen with the group, right? We are going to use Zoom for our camera club meetings and competitions, hence some members may need to show some pictures from their desktop. Be safe at the castle.

Thank you so much! You are also a great teacher. I have tried several other tutorials on zoom before finding this one but this was by far the easiest to understand. great job!

Thanks so much for the instructional video. I teach homeschool art and really need to figure out how to continue classes that are usually held in my home studio. I am going to try and get this set up for everyone to join.

Hi Ben, how do you minimize the host so that the whole background is showing in full, what I mean is you are showing in the bottom right corner, all I can get is me in the full screen?

Even though this was focused on Zoom, it was very helpful in general. We are required to use Microsoft Teams where I teach. Same fruit, slightly different flavor.

Thank you very much Steve! Your timing is perfect. This weekend we have a seminar planned at work, but because of Corona we had to change the plans a bit. We will now use Zoom to make it available online and your tutorial helped a lot for me to learn the basics.

Thank you, Mr. D. I'm a college instructor in California who has been unwillingly placed into the cyber classroom 😁. Your tutorial has greatly mitigated my apprehensions toward distance learning. Looking forward to more tutorials like this one.

Steve, Thanks well explained Zoom basics. I did want to get more info on how concurrent conversations are managed when multiple attendees may be talking at the same time. Does the main screen switch to the person talking? Is it better to have the host manage conversations? Thanks again Mike SF Bay Area

Steve - very well done presentation. I’ve been using Zoom in my business for a couple of years and you did an excellent job of covering the basics. Are you planning to do an advance presentation. One that might cover some of the other options like green screen backgrounds, etc.

I've used a couple times before. You've given me a little more confidence to be the host. Thanks

Dude!! You have been so helpful. I'm an older guy, semi-tired (badly needs a retread) and you have helped tremendously in getting me adjusting to this ZOOM and the set-up.

GREAT VIDEO ON ZOOM. THE CLUB I AM A MEMBER WILL BE USING ZOOM FOR OUR MEETINGS FOR NOW UNTIL WE CAN MEET IN PERSON AGAIN. I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ZOOM. I SIGNED UP AND HOPE IT WILL WORK GOOD. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO ON ZOOM.

I see UK wasn’t on the list as well. I’m not a teacher but was told that this was better than House Party as it’s safer. Is that right?

Hi Steve in Canada. I am a member of Voluteer of Marine rescue New south Wales Australia, I have just learnt that we are going to start training our new volunteer radio operators via ZOOM. After watching your video just now. I am feeling a bit better about it being a worthwhile exercise. Thanks from Australia.

Thank you for this, our school for my boys just started us on zoom and I wanted to better understand how to use it. Then I thought this might be great with my clients, workshop students, or D&D private group so thanks for showing me the other side of hosting with Zoom.

This was great for "hosts" wish there were expanded videos for "participants" - how to's, etiquette. chats etc.

HI Steve, I'm trying to share my android to my smart tv so I can get zoom on my tv. The video works but not the audio. Any ideas??? thanks in advance Dolly

Steve...thank you, you are a fantastic teacher and technology geru...stay healthy and, oh yes, thank your wife as a teacher and an example in your presentation.

Thank you Steve...that was sooo helpful to me and my educator friends!!

Steve Dotto: I am having a simple Zoom session for book group. I am using an iPad as leader. I am not able to invite the 7 participants into the meeting. They all have registered in Zoom, but when I try to “invite” them, and send the message to their emails, I cannot get message out! What am I forgetting to do? Help!

Keep yourself and those in your ‘castle’ safe. Best wishes

Thank you so much! I can't believe how much I learned in such a short time. Trying it today! My son will be my guinea pig and then I'll meet with some students later today. Fingers crossed!!!

Loved it!!! I teach a foreign language at a local community college..and this past Spring we had to teach via ZOOM. With absolutely no experience in teaching anything online, I was thinking about NOT doing it. But, I mustered up the courage, got the help I needed from the college tech folks and so far have taught 3 courses via ZOOM. Your KZfaq instructions have helped me immensely. I will be utilizing your suggestions in my next class which beings October 3rd. You have cleared up a lot of confusion for me. Again, Thank you. Harriette

I’m seeing a lot of privacy and security concerns with Zoom these days. How concerned should we be and what, if any, precautions can we take as users? I sure appreciate your channel and all the info you’ve made available. Thanks.

Question: I'd like to delete 3 out of 7 in the list of meeting ID's in Join Meeting screen. The only option I see is the clear all and I definitely don't want to do that. How can I do this? I have searched all through Zoom Help but couldn't find an answer.

Thank you and your wife for your demonstrating video conferencing. Most helpful! A former teacher, now a life coach. This platform is great for giving a workshop presentation. Appreciate the clarification on the different features!

Still relevant! I appreciate your clear instructions. And I remember your old TV show! Used to watch it faithfully.

If you going to share other media, make sure share computer sound box is checked. Otherwise they won't hear the audio.

Thank you very much. Is there a way to connect Google Classroom and Zoom? Do you have a video on how to transfer google slides to zoom screen share? I teach third grade and you video was helpful.

Mike Iacono, Australia, Thank you for your great video your teaching talents are very much appreciated. I am a law teacher at Western Sydney University and we went live on Zoom last week. Got through the 5 x 2 hour tutorials OK. My first experience with Zoom. I really wish I had seen your video before those Zoom meetings.

Thank you, this was straight forward and easy to understand. I have watched and joined lots of Zoom meetings, but needed to learn how to host a meeting and this was great!

Is there a way that I can see how long my student will be watching each Zoom post/class? To make sure they are watching the entire post? I'm worried about some logging in, or opening it, but not watching the entire class time.

How do I get a border around the video like you did. The blue thing....sorry if this doesn't sound professional "Blue thing"!!

Yes, we are blessed to have this technology and thank you so much for doing such a helpful instructional video on Zoom. One thing, Shannon asked you if the Zoom Chat material could be recorded and sent. I think your answer (which was in the negative) could have mentioned that Chat can be saved. So it could sent afterwards in that way.

Thank you SO much!! Teaching my first class today via zoom and this helped A LOT!!

Pleased to see the updated information on ZoomBlog that as of yesterday the 40-minute meeting limit on free Basic Accounts for K-12 schools in Canada, Germany & the UK... congrats '-}

When people sign up for the class, can the host see their email addresses to build an email list? And I have two standard poodles! THANKS for this great video! Very helpful.

Thank you, Steve. Very timely!

Thank you very much for this video! Im teaching group fitness online and found this very helpful even though it was education based.

Great presentation. Quick question- can a poll created for one meeting/conference be saved and used later?

I see Zoom is now available for teachers in Canada as of March 23rd update.

Thank you both for your loving sacrifices in providing this video! It has helped me to understand Zoom much better! Stay safe!!!

Thank you so much for your wonderful explanation! It really helps me preparing for my online teaching next week.

Hi, Steve, for a Small Bizz how about whereby, it does 4 persons & its free.

Elaborating on Shannon’s question, I under stand you can set up separate Rooms for each student so you can work one on one, or join together. Correct?

Thanks so much for this valuable info. Nw into summer & I am trying to prepare ZOOM presentations for group of older adults. Some serious challenges here, but you have given me terrific info.

This is awesome! You just couldn't hid your teaching skills!! Very easy to follow and practice. Great job!

I don't have the option to authorize a co-host. Is that feature only for paid subscribers?

I just came off of a Zoom meeting and we discovered that the 40 minute time limit is back in place. Zoom didn't say how long they would lift this, but it looks as if it was only for 1 month.

After experiencing a week of ….well, frustration, I came across your video. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the simplicity and the knowledge you presented. I'm feeling better about using Zoom and will be trying more today.

Thank you for your tutorial on how to use Zoom. I've looked at a few others. Yours is the best one I've seen.