Zoom: Common Features and Functions

Meetings

• Your video
• Your audio
• Changing your view (e.g. gallery vs speaker view)
  • Meeting hosts can also enable Immersive View
• Scheduling a Meeting 
  • Through your Calendar by URL: simply place your meeting link into the Location field of your Calendar event
  • Through your Calendar with the Zoom addon
• Meeting setup options are available at https://carleton.zoom.us/profile/setting
• Sharing your screen (including sharing slides as virtual backgrounds, or optimizing video for screensharing)
• Closed captioning
• Breakout Rooms
• Polling
• Participant reaction options
• Recording the meeting

Be sure to check out our articles on Meeting best practices and Zoom Tips and Tricks meetings!

Webinars

Zoom Webinars have different functionality from Zoom Meetings. Zoom provides a comparison of features between Meetings and Webinars. If you need to run a Webinar, or if you need to run any kind of meeting with over 500 attendees, you can request the license by submitting an Event Support ticket.