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Creating Breakout Rooms from Polls

With Zoom version 5.13.5 and up, you can automatically assign your meeting participants to Breakout Rooms based on their responses to a poll question. Whether you build your polls ahead of time or with the meeting in progress, just check the box for “Create Breakout Rooms.” Then in the course of your meeting, after your […]

Using Meeting Templates

Videoconferencing has become a part of our daily lives, but not all meetings are alike. In the course of a day, you may use Zoom to collaborate with a small team of colleagues, teach a class with dozens of students, hold an information session open to many guests outside the university, and so on. Each […]

Upgraded Zoom Features for the New Year

Several popular Zoom features sport a new look and enhanced capabilities as we enter the new year, with client version 5.13.3 introducing updates to avatars, live transcription and in-meeting polls. Speaker Attribution for Live Automated Captions When viewing automated captions in a live meeting, the speaker’s profile picture will now appear next to the caption […]