Joining a Zoom Call for the First Time; Fun and Easy Online Connection

zooom is a great way to communicate and connect

online

, especially now that you are close to home due to the corona virus outbreak. In this video, I will share with you the simple and

easy

steps to join a Zoom

call

. for the

first

time

I'm Marcia Chad Lee and here at Creative Life Center I really like using oom. I use it for one-on-one conversations and group events. It's a good alternative to being together in person when that just doesn't work for some reason and it doesn't take long to feel comfortable and enjoy being on

zoom

. What I'm going to do in this video is share the

easy

steps to get you from your invitation to the

zoom

call

and then at the end of the video I'll give you some easy tips for interacting once you're on the call.

This is a great way to relax, have fun and be able to get together with other people

online

using zoom, so let's start, when someone invites you to a zoom meeting, some

time

s they call it a zoom call or zoom class, they will send you information like this and this is what you're going to use to get into your zoom call there are two ways to get into a zoom comb you can just call using your phone like a normal phone call use one of these numbers here in the US. or find your local number outside the US using this link and then you will be asked for the meeting ID that was given to you with the zoom information, so it is a little limited and not online because it is only what you can hear and say, there is no image you can't access. see what's being shared you can't see the other people on the call they don't see you the best way to continue is to use this URL, this web address that you type into a browser or click and join the meeting that way, That gives you the opportunity to visually see anything being shared, see other people on the call who want to be seen, and also be seen yourself.

Now you can choose if your video camera is on or not and when. is muted and when you're not muted, we'll go over all of that later, so I suggest you use this link to join the zoom meeting. This is your

first

meeting. You probably don't have the zoom app downloaded. can i use a zoom app on a computer, on a tablet, or on your phone in any of those situations, the first time you try to go to a zoom meeting, you will be prompted and guided through installing the app zoom. I'm actually on a computer, so let's break that down and I'll show you how it works.

If you're on a phone, then you need to go to any App Store where you normally download your apps and search for Zoom cloud meetings, if you can. I can't find that, look for a zoom client for meetings, sometimes there are different names, so let's do it on the computer and you can see what happens. The first thing I want to do is click on this link, it will open a browser window telling me it's trying. to launch my app and allow me to join the call, in this case I am on a PC, this app is not in the Microsoft Store.

I already know, so I'll skip this little message. I'll go directly to this browser. window that opened and it says down here at the bottom, click here to start the meeting, that would mean I already know I have the app or I'll be downloading and running it soon. Now I need the app, I need to download it. I click on that link and it's downloading right now. You can see this is what I need to open to install the zoom app. It's being installed now, so it takes a little time. Give me five or ten minutes to get started before your call.

It's supposed to start if it's the first time you're getting a call. Now I can enter my name and click join meeting. Now I have some options. I can join with my video so people can see me. Can I join. that video, so let's join with the video and now I have a choice: do I join with the computer audio so I can hear other people? That's what I want to do, so I'm going to click to resize this window. so you can see everything that's on now, the video from my computer is here on a different screen and the one that I'm recording on and showing you, so it's going to look a little bit on the side that you're on, that's it, that's it what you had to do. do to enter this call and now you have chosen whether you are muted or not, so if I want to hear myself I need to turn this off.

I'm not going to turn it off now because I'm also recording this. call and I would have all kinds of comments, but down here this microphone is what you turn on and off if you want people to hear you or not hear you now, if you don't want them to see you, you can turn off your video and now you don't see me, just you see the name I entered when I joined at the bottom of the screen. There are other things you'll want to know. You can chat here. This will open the chat window. Let me. resize this so you can see it there you have it, you can see where the chat window is, you can say hello to everyone and then here is a button to leave the meeting, another useful feature that you will want to know before you leave the meeting .

I want to show you that you have a choice in how you see things. There is a gallery view that allows you to see separate windows of approximately the same size for all participants in the call, so if we have multiple calls, we would have multiple windows here and I'm I'm going to turn my video login on again so that You can see everyone's faces and what they're doing if they have their video on, so I turn off my video and now you don't see me again. I have that control all the time, the Speaker view, which is the view we start with whoever is speaking, will be displayed large, so I would have to unmute.

It would show up big and that bounces around so you can go from seeing everyone to seeing who. he's talking, that's it, now you're ready, you know what you need to do to join your first Zoom call. This is not so mysterious. Use that URL. Download the app and then set your video and mute your voice as you like. have fun with this