Zoom Features and Use Cases
Zoom Invitation Features
- Ad-Hoc/Instant Meetings
- Calendar for Meetings
- Schedule Meetings
- Schedule Recurring Meetings
Zoom Meeting Features
- Application Sharing
- Desktop Sharing
- Simultaneous Desktop Sharing
- Whiteboards
- Annotation and Drawing Tools
- Slide Show
- File Transfer
- Instant Messaging
- Break-Out Sessions
- Video/Webcam
- Audio for Applications
- Remote desktop control
- Full Screen/ Partial Screen Mode
Zoom Meeting Follow-Up Features
- Meeting Recording - local recording
- Meeting Playback - cloud recording
- Meeting Participant Reporting
Zoom Use Cases
- One-click webconferencing / meetings
- Scheduled meetings
- Recurring scheduled meetings
- Spur-of-the-moment informal meetings
- Staff meetings
- In-meeting chat
- Group discussions
- Brainstorming sessions
- Small presentations (especially with discussion)
- Meetings where all participants might need to speak
- Any meeting or discussion where one or more participant needs (or prefers) to attend by phone
- Webinars or events requiring registration
- Events or training requiring attendance reports
- Lecture-style training or teaching sessions
- Training or teaching with in-session labs
- Training or teaching with breakout groups
- Training or teaching with in-session quizzes, exercises, or tests
- Training or teaching with hands-on demonstrations
- PowerPoint presentations that include embedded audio or video in the slides
- Host student presentations – rest of class can use chat window to comment in real time, for instant and documentable peer feedback
- Recording (local computer)
- Recording (server-based)
- MPEG 4 client recording and cloud recording
- Telepresence room integration (easily include some of our NextGen classrooms)
- Share computer audio during screen sharing
- Mobile collaboration with co-annotation
- Mobile app screensharing
- Remote desktop control for user support
- Broadcast webinars to Facebook or YouTube
