Take Control of Zoom, 2nd Edition

Manage a Meeting

Zoom makes hosting a meeting just as easy as being a participant. You use the same apps and have all the same options plus superpowers in meetings that let you control participants.

Zoom doesn’t force you into a particular way of interacting with participants. A series of pre-meeting choices you make and in-meeting actions you take shape how you run the meeting.

As a host, you can be entirely laid back, a moderator, a mediator, or a dictator—sometimes acting that last role is needed! Like running a classroom, a Zoom meeting often requires attention and discipline to prevent it from devolving into chaos. A tighter hand will be needed for public meetings, in which anyone can participate, and student-based videoconferences.

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