Before we get into how to set up Zoom and use it, let me sketch an overview of what Zoom offers across their software and some optional hardware so you can understand the scope of your options.
Zoom offers videoconferencing, a feature this book largely devotes its attention to because it’s what most people are looking for and how most people spend their time using Zoom as a product.
Videoconferencing obviously includes two or more people using audio and video to communicate with each other in a live session (Figure 2). One person has to be the host: they create a meeting and have superpowers. (In some tiers of service, a host can partially delegate to other people or hand off hosting entirely.)
Figure 2: In a typical Zoom meeting, ...
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