Is Zoom an Overnight Popular Communication App, and How To Host A Zoom Meeting?

Attending a meeting on Zoom is easy whereas, hosting might be very- difficult. I've experienced cases of Zoom meeting hosts getting logged out of-meeting. So, if you are a lecturer, manager, director, organizer, or student, this guide is for you.

Preface of Zoom

Zoom is a video conferencing app that appeared as a savior for organizations surviving the COVID pandemic.

Via this Zoom app- users to hold one-to-one meetings and group video conferences of up to 500 participants.

Meeting hosts can share their screens with the audience-development record.

Contrary to the Zoom meeting, the zoom room is a hardware pattern that helps companies organize and commence Zoom meetings from their respective conference rooms.

Zoom room performs as an ideal option for colossal corporations, but not individuals.

Since a decade ago, video telephony and online live chat app have been around, but these have significantly risen in 2020.

People those yell Zoom an overnight success hardly know much about the history of its journey and how long it took them to bring it here.

Although Zoom has existed for over a decade, this coronavirus pandemic played a vital role in the global acceptance of this company.

Zoom see the light of profit in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic shut our doors and was unoccupied our malls for it.

Offered a decade-long history, it becomes a false tale to tag Zoom as a one-night success.

Yet many are still wondering how the video telephony tech giant has ripped this massive success in the year 2020?

Irrespectively they were not the only video conferencing app at present-time communications platform.

Other well-established companies like Skype and Hangout dominated long before Zoom came into the limelight. What is the secret of Zoom success?

Simple use method

Millions of people prefer Zoom as a video conferencing app rather than Skype or hangout fainted by their simple use method.

In terms of Skype and hangout, to use them for any purpose of communications, you need to set up an individual account with both platforms.

However, Zoom has laxity over its non-host users to skip the stress of setting up an account.

In case you are up to attending an online class and in followings you received a link to join from your host, it's not compulsory for you obtaining a Zoom account or any either for that matter.

You just needed is the Zoom app and an uninterrupted internet connection.

Alongside, Zoom also offers instant messages, video meetings, screen sharing features, copy-to-clipboard buttons by zoom video communications services.

So, anybody around the United States or the earth can easily use the Zoom app to quench their needs for communicating with each other.

Entering the education sector

Zoom was approaching an opportunity to be the most used app during the pandemic and seized it.

Giant corporations were the first to hop on the Zoom wave by 2019.

And by 2020, the education sector joined the group and secured that the world perceived it.

Free for the first 100 people for 40 minutes

All free stuff is covetable. Zoom offered the best free- deal among others video conferencing platforms.

It's convenient for companies and schools that can barely fit into their free tier without buying a premium plan.

It becomes a blessing for a small enterprises owner with few workers and stuff. The Zoom free version is their cup of tea logistic daily meetings.

How to host a Zoom meeting?

You need to create a Zoom account before hosting a zoom meeting.

Contrary it's not obligatory to have a Zoom account of your guests attending the meeting, but the host should have an account to start one.

Anyone can sign up via the web or the Zoom app. You are all set to host a Zoom meeting once you have installed the app and created an account.

The Zoom app enables hosts after commencing or scheduling meetings immediately.

Once after scheduled their meeting, the host also has the chance to send an invite to partners before the meeting starts using the “invite button.

Placing a meeting comes with a unique instant meeting ID.

If organized via the Zoom mobile app or Zoom desktop client, the one-time ID will expire with the meeting over.

And, instant meeting IDs generated via the website will be inactive after a day or two days of the meeting.

Follow the steps as appended below to host a Zoom meeting.

First, tap on the Zoom app and sign in using your username & password.
Tab to the "meet and chat" and click the "new meeting" icon.
Knob the "video on".
Please toggle the meeting the PMI (personal meeting ID) to set up or use your meeting room.
Click "start meeting".
First-time meeting hosts are told to allow Zoom permission to access the camera and microphone. Tap "Ok" to proceed.
If you want to set up your maiden account, please keep following the steps as appended bellows.
You can go through Zoom on your PC directly to the Zoom website free of cost. Android users, please download and install the Zoom app via the play store, contrary to the Apple store for iPhone users.
Tap "sign-in"
If you already have your user account fill out the user account wizard if not please create a new one.
You will be asked to grant Zoom permission to access your computer microphone. Tap "OK" to continue.
Homebased work has one disadvantage – your privacy might- be exposed, before the world, as your colleagues or strangers.
You may hide your home background from others by replacing it with Zoom wallpaper.

Change your Zoom wallpaper following directions as appended below.

At the lower-left area of the Zoom app, click the arrow to the right of "stop the video."
Tap "choose a virtual background."
Click the plus icon beside "choose a virtual background."
Upload a nice picture as your wallpaper background.
You can enhance the wallpaper by descending to the "video" section in the settings window and tapping "touch up my appearance"

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