Instructions for Accessing Zoom

How to Use Zoom

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• ​Do not try to access Zoom from your smartphone, use computer or laptop if possible.  
• You do not need to download Zoom or create an account in order to join a Zoom meeting

1.  To join a Zoom meeting, simply click the link sent to you from the host or click here and then enter the Meeting ID provided by the host.
2.  To join the monthly luncheon meeting, click here or enter the Meeting ID: 305 049 146.
3. The link will take you straight into the zoom meeting, but first it will ask for you to provide your name to be displayed during the meeting.
4. When joining the video meeting, it will show a preview of your video that will be displayed.
   • If you would like it to display your video, click on ‘Join with video’.
   • If you would not like your video to be displayed, click ‘Join without video’ and simply your name will be displayed during the meeting.

     4.  Next it will ask if you how you would like to connect your audio.
          Click on the blue button ‘Join with computer audio’

• Make sure that the volume on your computer is turned up so that you can hear the other people in the meeting.
• Now you should be in the meeting, everyone should be able to hear and see you, and you should see and hear them.

• At the bottom of your screen you will see a tool bar with options like this:

To turn your video on (so people can see you) click the ‘Start Video’ icon on the bottom left side. To turn your video off (so people can’t see you) click the same button again, it will now say ‘Stop Video’.

It is proper etiquette to mute your audio when you aren’t speaking so that there isn’t background noise. To mute, click on the microphone icon to the left of the video icon. To unmute yourself when you are going to speak, click this icon again, or hold down the space bar.

Now you know how to participate in a Zoom meeting!

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If you would like to host your own personal Zoom meetings to stay in contact with family or friends, simply create an account using the following steps:
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1. Visit https://zoom.us/ent?zcid=3172
2. The page should look like the photo below

    3.  Enter the email address you would like to use in the box and then click the orange   button

    4.  Then it will ask to confirm your email address, click ‘Confirm’ and a verification email will be sent to you.

    5.  Once your account is created, click on ‘Host a Meeting’ in the upper right corner

    6.  Then you will see this screen with your meeting information, click on ‘Copy URL’

     7.  Now that the URL is copied, it can be emailed or shared with the people you want to attend your meeting and they just need to click it to enter the meeting.