Paul McFedries - Teach Yourself VISUALLY Zoom

Zoom starts the instant meeting.

Using the Zoom Mobile App

Tap Meet & Chat.

Tap New Meeting.

Zoom displays the Start a Meeting screen.

If you prefer to start the instant meeting with your video turned off, tap Video On( changes to ).

Tap Start a Meeting.

Zoom starts the instant meeting.

Start an Instant Meeting in Your Personal Meeting Room

If you have a paid Zoom account, you can create an instant meeting that takes place in your personal meeting room. When you sign up for a paid Zoom account, you are automatically assigned a personal meeting room , which is a virtual room that’s permanently reserved just for your own use. Your personal meeting room is identified by your Personal Meeting ID (PMI), which is a ten-digit number unique to your account. When you start an instant meeting in your personal meeting room, Zoom uses your PMI as part of the meeting web address.

Start an Instant Meeting in Your Personal Meeting Room

Using the Zoom Desktop App

Click Home.

Click the New Meeting .

Click Use My Personal Meeting ID (PMI)( changes to ).

Your PMI appears here.

Click New Meeting.

Zoom starts the instant meeting in your personal meeting room.

Using the Zoom Mobile App

Tap Meetings.

Tap Start.

Zoom starts the instant meeting in your personal meeting room.

Invite People to a Meeting

After you start an instant meeting, as described in the previous two sections, you can invite one or more users to attend. By default, an instant meeting starts with just you as the meeting host. Your next step is to invite people to participate in your meeting. Zoom gives you three ways to invite users: by email, by contact name (see Chapter 10), or by copying the meeting link or the meeting invitation and pasting the information into an email or text message. In the Zoom mobile app, you can also invite people via text message.

Invite People to a Meeting

Start the Invitation

In the Zoom desktop app, click the Participants .

Click Invite.

Note: You can also select the Invite command by pressing + .

Zoom displays the Invite People to Join Meeting dialog.

Invite Via Email

Click Email.

Click the email service you want to use.

Address and send the email message (not shown).

Zoom sends the invitation to the email recipients.

Invite Contacts

Click Contacts.

Click each contact you want to invite.

Click Invite.