CHAPTER 6

Sharing Your Screen

You can make your Zoom meetings more productive and more useful by sharing information with the other participants. You can share some or all of your screen, video and audio clips, and files. You can also write on a whiteboard, share presentation slides, and control another person’s screen share.

Snapshot of screen sharing window.

Share Your Screen

Explore Sharing Controls

Share a Portion of the Screen

Share Your iPhone or iPad Device Screen

Share a Whiteboard

Share a Video

Share Audio

Share Video from a Second Camera

Annotate a Shared Screen

Share Slides as a Virtual Background

Host a Screen Share–Only Meeting

View a Shared Screen in Side-by-Side Mode

Request Control of a Screen Share

Share Your Screen

You can share with the meeting participants content that appears on your screen. You can share your entire screen or, in the desktop app, the window of a running application. Sharing your screen is useful if you have a running application that contains content you think the meeting attendees would find interesting or educational. Sharing your screen is also useful for demonstrating how to perform a task.

Participant screen sharing is disabled by default, so you can share your screen only if your meeting host has enabled this. See the Tip at the end of this section for more information.

Share Your Screen

Using the Zoom Desktop App

Display the meeting controls (not shown).

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