Zoom meetings often require multi-tasking, especially for the meeting hosts. The Zoom Chat feature is particularly useful for this. To avoid interrupting a presentation, to organize a team meeting, or to answer individual participants, you can send private chat messages or group messages via Zoom Chat. The host determines who can chat with whom in the meeting.
The chat feature for Zoom meetings is self-explanatory and is easy to enable and disable. You can use the Zoom Chat in both the Zoom desktop app and the mobile app. Before or during a meeting, determine whether you want to allow attendees to use the private or public chat feature, or keep it disabled. Follow these steps to use Zoom Chat.
If you want to make sure that the Zoom Chat feature is disabled from the start of a scheduled meeting, you can do so via the Zoom profile settings. Proceed as follows:
Zoom realizes that chat meetings can still be of importance even after a meeting has ended and therefore provides a save function for Zoom Chats. You can choose to save chats automatically or manually.
As a meeting host and administrator, you have many responsibilities on Zoom. When creating a Zoom meeting, you have to decide who should attend the Zoom meeting, who can record a Zoom meeting, share the screen, and even whether participants are allowed to use a virtual Zoom background. Another important job is taking care of the Zoom Chat in meetings.
Zoom Chat allows participants and hosts to send private chat messages or public group messages during a meeting. The host decides in advance whether to allow participants to chat with each other or to disable the chat during the meeting. Private chat messages between Zoom participants cannot be viewed by the meeting host. You can also save the Zoom Chat locally to your device or to the cloud when the meeting is over.
There are many reasons to change your Zoom background. You might want to change your background to keep your surroundings more private, or to make your office seem a little snazzier! The popular video conferencing software Zoom offers many ways to customize your Zoom background. We’ll explain how to do it.
When there’s no sound on Zoom, the first thing you do - especially in professional situations - is panic. But you don’t have to despair. Audio problems can be quickly fixed on desktops, smartphones, and tablets. Follow our step-by-step guide to make yourself heard again in the popular video chat.
A Zoom breakout room is a separate virtual room that runs at the same time as the main meeting. The meeting host can open up to 50 separate Zoom breakout rooms and automatically or independently distribute meeting participants among the different Zoom breakout rooms. This is useful for networking or when hosting workshops in large Zoom conferences. Learn how to create Zoom breakout rooms here.
Want to write down and collect ideas in a brainstorming session with other Zoom participants? The Zoom whiteboard makes this possible. The white surface enables you to write down, draw, and draft ideas with other meeting participants and save these for later. Here you can learn how to use a whiteboard in Zoom and how to share it.
When there are too many different opinions or not enough feedback in a Zoom meeting, a Zoom survey can often help. With single- and multiple-choice surveys, you can ask for meeting participants’ opinions and download the survey report at the end of the meeting. This article explains how to create a Zoom survey.
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