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==Zoom Features== | ==Zoom Features== | ||
===Chat=== | ===Chat=== | ||
| + | Zoom allows users to send messages throughout the duration of the meeting. Users can send messages to individual participants or to everyone in the meeting. | ||
===Screen Share=== | ===Screen Share=== | ||
| + | Participants in the meeting have the opportunity to share their screen. This means that everyone else in the meeting can see what is on the person’s screen and follow along with whatever it is the person is doing/showing in real time. Participants, if granted permission, also have the ability to take control of the person who is sharing’s computer controls. This means they can control their mouse and keyboard, allowing them to directly interact with the person’s screen remotely from their own machine. | ||
===Record=== | ===Record=== | ||
| + | Zoom meetings can be recorded and saved for viewing at a later time. Recordings can be started and stopped at any point and all participants have to agree to be recorded (if they don’t, they have the option to leave the meeting). | ||
===Polling=== | ===Polling=== | ||
| + | Hosts can launch single choice or multiple choice polls for their participants during meetings. Hosts can see the results and display them to the rest of the attendees during the meeting in addition to obtaining a report of the responses at the end of the meeting. | ||
===Reactions=== | ===Reactions=== | ||
| + | Meeting participants have the option to display different reactions during the course of a meeting by clicking different emojis, including clapping, thumbs up, heart, laughing face, open mouth face and confetti. Participants can also alert the host to speed up or slow down or say “yes” or “no” to the host by hitting each button respectively. And, finally, participants can notify others that they may wish to speak by clicking the “raise hand” button. | ||
===Breakout Rooms=== | ===Breakout Rooms=== | ||
| + | The host of the meeting can split the participants into breakout rooms. Each breakout room is essentially its own Zoom meeting and the host can close the breakout rooms and bring everyone back to the main call whenever. Participants can decide when they would like to leave the breakout room to return to the main call as well. When making the breakout rooms, the host can randomize the participants or put specific people in specific rooms. In addition, the host has the opportunity to give participants the chance to choose their own rooms by manually placing themselves into a room. | ||
===Waiting Room=== | ===Waiting Room=== | ||
| + | Before the start of a meeting, a virtual “waiting room” is enabled for participants. In this room, participants can’t see other participants and are waiting to be admitted to the main room where the meeting actually takes place. The host has the ability to admit people into the main room one by one or all at once whenever they wish. | ||
==History of Zoom== | ==History of Zoom== | ||
Revision as of 11:00, 12 March 2021
Zoom (Zoom Video Communications, Inc.) is a telecommunications company that offers its users the ability to meet for free (with optional subscription) online through their video conferencing platform. With the free version of Zoom, hosts can hold meetings up to 40 minutes long with up to 100 participants. And, if users are interested in holding longer meetings with more participants, they can purchase a subscription for about $15-20 a month.[1] When a host starts a meeting, they are able to send an online invitation with a link to the meeting to whoever they would like to attend.
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Zoom Features
Chat
Zoom allows users to send messages throughout the duration of the meeting. Users can send messages to individual participants or to everyone in the meeting.
Participants in the meeting have the opportunity to share their screen. This means that everyone else in the meeting can see what is on the person’s screen and follow along with whatever it is the person is doing/showing in real time. Participants, if granted permission, also have the ability to take control of the person who is sharing’s computer controls. This means they can control their mouse and keyboard, allowing them to directly interact with the person’s screen remotely from their own machine.
Record
Zoom meetings can be recorded and saved for viewing at a later time. Recordings can be started and stopped at any point and all participants have to agree to be recorded (if they don’t, they have the option to leave the meeting).
Polling
Hosts can launch single choice or multiple choice polls for their participants during meetings. Hosts can see the results and display them to the rest of the attendees during the meeting in addition to obtaining a report of the responses at the end of the meeting.
Reactions
Meeting participants have the option to display different reactions during the course of a meeting by clicking different emojis, including clapping, thumbs up, heart, laughing face, open mouth face and confetti. Participants can also alert the host to speed up or slow down or say “yes” or “no” to the host by hitting each button respectively. And, finally, participants can notify others that they may wish to speak by clicking the “raise hand” button.
Breakout Rooms
The host of the meeting can split the participants into breakout rooms. Each breakout room is essentially its own Zoom meeting and the host can close the breakout rooms and bring everyone back to the main call whenever. Participants can decide when they would like to leave the breakout room to return to the main call as well. When making the breakout rooms, the host can randomize the participants or put specific people in specific rooms. In addition, the host has the opportunity to give participants the chance to choose their own rooms by manually placing themselves into a room.
Waiting Room
Before the start of a meeting, a virtual “waiting room” is enabled for participants. In this room, participants can’t see other participants and are waiting to be admitted to the main room where the meeting actually takes place. The host has the ability to admit people into the main room one by one or all at once whenever they wish.
History of Zoom
Ethical Implications
Furthering the Digital Divide in Education
Security & Privacy
References
- ↑ Chawla, Ajay, Coronavirus (COVID-19) – ‘Zoom’ Application Boon or Bane (May 20, 2020).
