Zoom: Leading Effective and Engaging Calls

Course details

Lead Zoom meetings and webinars with confidence. In this course, instructor Zack Arnold shows how to ensure that your next Zoom call is effective, productive, and engaging. Zack begins with a wealth of security tips for before, during, and after a call. Next, he shares strategies for maximizing audience engagement and interaction (as well as minimizing distractions and interruptions), whether your call is with 5 or 500 people. This includes adjusting view options so you never miss a participant’s reactions, organizing windows to maximize eye contact, and using polls and reactions to interact with larger groups. Zack also covers the technical aspects of running Zoom calls, such as sharing video and audio content and trading off screen sharing between the facilitator and other presenters and cohosts. Plus, discover how to make the most of breakout rooms and advanced features like his favorite hot keys, as well as livestreaming your Zoom calls to the web.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Leading effective, productive, and engaging Zoom calls
02 - Where to learn Zoom basics

1. Meeting Settings and Security

03 - Managing security before your meeting
04 - Managing security during your meeting
05 - Managing security for back-to-back meetings
06 - Managing security of your local recordings after your meeting
07 - Managing security of your cloud recordings after your meeting

2. Conducting Productive Meetings and Maximizing Engagement

08 - Establishing pre-meeting communication guidelines
09 - Time-management tips for effective meetings
10 - Managing connection issues, passwords, and lost links
11 - Setting up in-meeting communication guidelines
12 - Managing the various view options
13 - Organizing meeting windows to maximize eye contact
14 - Using the polling feature
15 - Ending your meetings smoothly

3. Collaboration Tools and Settings

16 - Sharing your screen and annotating
17 - Controlling another user's screen
18 - Using and sharing your whiteboard
19 - Sharing video and audio content
20 - Collaborating with a cohost

4. Setting Up and Using Breakout Rooms

21 - Creating breakout rooms and automatically assigning participants
22 - Manually assigning participants to breakout rooms
23 - Modifying and managing participants in breakout rooms

5. Advanced Zoom Features

24 - Mastering in-meeting hot keys
25 - Understanding the difference between meetings and webinars
26 - Livestreaming your Zoom meetings to the web

Conclusion

27 - Continued learning with Zoom

Zoom: Leading Effective and Engaging Calls

Authors

Zack Arnold