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Upon starting Zoom and signing in, you will enter the main menu of Zoom. The top bar of the interface as four buttons. "Home", "Chat", "Meetings", and "Contacts". They are explained below.
Home
- "New meeting" - starts a new meeting in your personal Zoom room
- By clicking on the small arrow to the right of "New meeting", and then hovering over your Personal Meeting ID, you can copy the room idea or the invitation text Zoom sends out to invitees. You can also edit the settings for the meeting by choosing "PMI Settings"
- "Join" allows you to manually join other Zoom sessions (meetings, webinars, lectures, etc). A Meeting ID or a Meeting URL is required to join sessions.
- "Schedule" is used if you wish to plan a meeting in advance. You can also schedule repeating meetings this way, with a persistent meeting ID and invitee list.
- "Share Screen" allows you to start sharing documents and your screen before you join a meeting. It is usually better to do this once you are in a meeting to reduce confusion about what is being displayed to other participants.
- In the tab on the right you see the current time and any upcoming meetings.
Chat
- "Recent -> "+" -> New chat" starts a text-only chat with one of your contacts. Using "+" you can add people to the chat as desired, or you can use the video icon to start a video connection to a participant of your chat.
- "Recent -> "+" -> New Channel" creates a shared conversation channel for multiple participants. You can also use the camera icon to start a video conversation with the entire channel.
Meetings
- "Upcoming" shows upcoming meetings.
- "Recorded" shows previously recorded meetings.
Contacts
- Manage your contact list. Zoom users at UiO are added automatically under "Company Contacts"
Profile image
- Next to the search field, you will see your profile image or your initials if you haven't uploaded a profile image. You can perform some settings for the application on this device from this menu. To edit your UiO Zoom profile, visit https://uio.zoom.us.
- "Log out" is also done via this icon.