Working From Home For Dummies

Chapter 9

Setting Up Zoom

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating a new Zoom account

Downloading and installing the Zoom desktop client

Reviewing the benefits of user groups

Understanding Zoom’s different roles

Zoom allows people to easily hold high-quality videoconferences with their colleagues, partners, customers, families, friends, and students. You may be chomping at the bit to start one.

Your excitement is easy to understand, but hold the phone. It’s essential to first cover a few foundational topics. Case in point: Before you can host a meeting, you need to take care of a few things.

This chapter explains the necessary housekeeping that you’ll have to perform in order to start using Zoom in earnest. Don’t worry. You’ll be up and running with Meetings & Chat shortly.

Taking Your First Steps

The world is data driven. Rare is the company today that doesn’t want to collect basic information about its users and customers. To this end, in order for you to host a Zoom meeting, you’ll have to first create an account.

Zoom labels all audio and video calls with others as meetings.

Creating a ...