There are a growing number of Zoom Rooms available across campus, including two in Jones Hall. A Zoom Room can be reserved for a variety of purposes, and one of the most common is as a place to join an already scheduled Zoom meeting.
Requirements to join a pre-scheduled meeting
- The Zoom Meeting ID Number
- The Zoom Meeting Passcode (use the standard case sensitive alpha-numeric passcode)
There are multiple configurations for Zoom Rooms, but all spaces feature a touch screen tablet or other device that is already on.
Depending on how the meeting was set up, you may need to turn on the microphone and camera, but you can easily do this from the touch screen.
You should now be in a Zoom meeting!
Here are some things to know about using a Zoom Room to join a meeting
- If the Zoom Room joins the meeting before the Host, the room will become the Host. For some spaces, including the Language Center rooms, this will occur even if the meeting was not set up to allow Join before Host. The Host can reclaim privileges by joining the meeting from a laptop or other device and hitting the “Reclaim Host” button.
- Screen Sharing from a Zoom Room is wireless and easy, but it is important that no one in the space enables the microphone on their laptop or other personal device.
Zoom Rooms offer powerful and intuitive meeting technology, but there are some nuances to how to use them, depending on the purpose of the meeting and how it was set up. Stay tuned for more tips about using Zoom Rooms effectively.