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Most of your questions about Zoom are addressed at 

Zoom Best Practices

Zoom has options to keep you in control of your own meeting. At the click of a button you can mute all participants, prevent other distractions, and stop uninvited participants from joining. Many articles have been written about “Zoombombing” and other issues new users are experiencing with Zoom. Below is a list of Zoom best practices and tips.

• Zoom recently released a guide to . There, you can learn how to lock your virtual classroom, control screen sharing, enable a waiting room, lock down chat sessions, remove participants, and explore security options when scheduling a class. You can also visit Zoom’s post on .
• All UM System students, faculty, and staff should immediately create an authenticated Zoom account to use Zoom if you have not already done so. Visit º£½ÇÂÛ̳ Instructional Design and Technology . Once you have authenticated your account, you should log in before joining meetings.
• Meeting tips
  • Want to cut back on interruptions, echoes and feedback. Learn how to  attendees.
  • Interesting in changing your Zoom?
  • Why do I hear ?
  • How do I use the  in Zoom?
• Security tips
  • Use a password to secure meetings.  for detailed information.
  • Don’t use your personal meeting room for recurring meetings. Use the schedule function and generate a new ID for meetings instead of using your personal meeting ID.
  • If you want to only allow users from º£½ÇÂÛ̳ and the UMSystem, used s as an additional tool for restricting access.
  • Screen share default settings in Zoom allow only meeting hosts to share their screen until they click in account settings to allow participants to share if necessary. Learn more about .
  • The use of waiting rooms will keep external users from automatically joining. External participants can’t join until the host clicks to allow them access. The default waiting room settings will allow anyone with a UMsystem Zoom account to bypass the waiting room since they are not external users. Meeting hosts can adjust waiting room settings at the time of meeting set up. Read more about managing .
• Security Toolbar for meeting hosts.
  • The meeting host will now have a  in their meeting controls, which provides all of Zoom’s existing in-meeting security controls in one place. This includes locking the meeting, enabling Waiting Room, and more. Users can also now enable Waiting Room in a meeting, even if the feature was not turned on before the start of the meeting. For more information, please visit this recently published .
• Customized Backgrounds
  • Using the Zoom web portal, you can .
  • Show º£½ÇÂÛ̳ spirit with  for your next Zoom meeting. Choose from five different images from the Volker and Health Sciences Campuses.

Additional Support

For additional Zoom help, contact  via email zoom@umsystem.edu, or phone (855) 675-0755.