Under Meetings, check the box labeled “Turn off my video when joining a meeting”.Open your Zoom desktop application and go to Preferences > Video.
To mute your audio and video when joining an online meeting: Keeping audio and video off upon entry allows you to get your home presentation environment under control while prepping your slides. But because I live in a busy home, sometimes my background environment isn’t completely settled. When I’m presenting online during a meeting, I like to dial in a few minutes early to get everything set up. #9: Turn off audio, video, and the notification chime when you and your attendees join the meeting Your online presentation ante will be forever upped, trust me. So, dig up that gaming monitor your teenager abandoned after upgrading his Fortnite battlestation or find a super cheap unit online. Here you can see the full-screen version of my slide deck to the right of Presenter View: To do this, you would plug in a second monitor, activate Presenter View in PowerPoint (or Google Slides), and then select the presentation application window that shows your deck full-screen. If you use dual monitors, you can set Zoom to share your full-screen presentation deck to the audience while your second monitor displays Presenter View only to you : Presenter View allows you to stay present with the content on your current slide and smoothly transition to the next one…and even build some anticipation along the way!īut if you only have one monitor for your online meetings, the audience will see all of that too, which completely defeats the purpose. This is an incredibly valuable feature while presenting in an online environment because it prevents you from getting distracted with remembering your next slide, or having really awkward transitions when you didn’t see the next slide coming. You also get a prominent clock and timer to stay on point. Presenter View (available in PowerPoint and Google Slides) allows you to privately display your current slide, your next slide, your Speaker Notes, and a storyboard of future slides. But presenting my slide decks using dual monitors was a game-changing move in my virtual meetings because it enabled me to use my favorite PowerPoint feature: Presenter View. Ok, so this first tip isn’t a Zoom tip, per se. #10: Present your slide deck using a second monitor …or in your web account settings, where you’ll need to access your account in a browser here: The settings you’ll see listed here are located in either your Zoom desktop app preferences, found here: We’re gonna do this countdown style: My Top 10 Most Useful Zoom Tips for Sane Online Presentations So in addition to my 3 tips for surviving online presenting from home podcast episode, I’ve gone deep with this list of the most helpful Zoom tips, tricks, and settings that will help you keep your online meeting (and your sanity) on track. And, these features are not all immediately obvious. Luckily, Zoom has risen to the occasion with a slew of new features to help alleviate the brewing frustration across the remote corporate landscape. Not to mention my personal favorite: a boss irreversibly transforming herself into a potato for the duration of her online team meeting. It’s a challenging - and hilarious - new landscape, from employees being forced to dial in from bathrooms and basements, to extricating flung spaghetti from your hair by tiny bored humans, to partners walking up to your desk in their skivvies.
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Unless you were lucky enough to live in a remote tropical cave for the first half of 2020, there’s a high probability that your work environment was somewhat impacted by the Coronavirus lockdown extravaganza.Īs a work-from-home employee and entrepreneur with over 10 years of presenting online under my belt, this transition didn’t really affect me (other than taking me off the road for exotic speaking engagements).īut based on the rapidly growing subculture of epic Zoom fails, it’s clear that this drastic change in our meeting environment has resulted in more than a few series of unfortunate events. Zoom Tips that will Save Your Online Meeting (and your sanity)
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