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Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Zoom App- At a Glance 1.1 Zoom- A Video Conferencing Tool 1.2 Setup Requirements for Zoom 1.3 How Much Zoom Costs? 1.4 Zoom Security Issues Chapter 2: Getting Started with Zoom App and Learning about its Features 2.1 Downloading and Installing Zoom 2.2 Starting a Meeting 2.3 Scheduling a Meeting 2.4 Joining a Meeting 2.5 Conducting Zoom Webinar 2.6 Sending Invitations to Join a Meeting or Webinar 2.7 Feature of Screen Sharing 2.8 Zoom Phone and Zoom Room 2.9 Polling Feature 2.10 Non-Verbal Feedback 2.11 Virtual Background 2.12 Whiteboard Option 2.13 Annotation 2.14 Meeting Transcription 2.15 Option of Chat Chapter 3: Zoom as a Tool for Online Teaching 3.1 Preparing for Class 3.2 Engaging Students Using Different Features 3.3 Specific Teaching Scenario 3.4 Zoom Assignment Setup 3.5 Zoom Individual Presentation Setup 3.6 Zoom Group Presentation Setup Chapter 4: Choosing Zoom over Other Tools 4.1 Benefits of Zoom 4.2 Zoom vs. Other Meeting Tools 4.3 Zoom vs Microsoft Teams 4.4 Zoom vs Google Hangouts 4.5 Zoom vs Skype 4.6 Pros and Cons of Zoom Chapter 5: Tips to Use Zoom App Effectively 5.1 Pre-Set your Meeting 5.2 Send Invitation to Clients Directly in Calendar Using Zoom Link 5.3 Mute Microphone when not Speaking 5.4 Inform Participants when you Record Meeting 5.5 Ensure Meeting Settings before you Start a Meeting 5.6 Share Screen when Presenting 5.7 Create a Meeting Agenda before you Schedule a Meeting Conclusion Introduction Zoom Video Communications is an independent information service located in California. It provides video telecommunications and online messaging services through a peer-to-peer software system based in the cloud. It is used for video conferencing, working from home, distance learning, and social connections. Zoom's corporate model relies on delivering a product that is easy to use than alternatives, as well as cost advantages, which involves reducing infrastructure-level hardware expenses and ensuring a strong degree of workforce productivity. It supports video chatting service, which allows unlimited access up to a hundred devices at once, with a time limit of forty minutes for free accounts having meetings with five or more members. Customers have the opportunity to update by subscription to one of their plans, with the maximum allowing up to a thousand persons simultaneously, with no time limit. With the emergence of remote working in this scenario, Zoom’s software utilization has seen a significant global rise starting in early 2020. Its software applications have been subject to review by the public and media concerning privacy and security issues. A portion of the Zoom working population is based in China that has given rise to concerns about monitoring and censorship. Business conferencing apps such as Zoom Rooms are accessible for fifty to one hundred dollars a month. One screen can display up to forty-nine users at once. Zoom has several levels: Basic, Pro, Enterprise, and Business. If you are using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, participants do not have to download the app; they can click on the link and enter from the web page. For Macs, Zoom is not appropriate with Safari. Banking institutions, universities and other educational departments around the globe use Zoom. Zoom has a record of ten million regular customers, and the app had more than two hundred million active users in March 2020, generating expanded difficulties for the business. The company launched version 5.0 of Zoom in April which resolved a range of privacy and security issues. It includes the default passwords, enhanced authentication and a meeting place security icon. You can work remotely and on your passion with video conferencing through Zoom. Zoom has features that can help you to organize a meeting formally. Zoom is the best tool for online teaching as it gives whiteboard, annotation, screen sharing, keyboard shortcuts and much more. Scheduling, joining, starting a conference and sending invitations to your participants for a video conference is easy with Zoom. It has an assignment and presentations set up as a tool for instructors to involve students in a better learning process. For feedback, there is a polling feature to create a poll and share with your participants. If you are looking for an application for your meetings and video/audio conferences, try out Zoom as it will provide you with the best features as compared to other tools, including price plans. Chapter 1: Zoom App- At a Glance Zoom is an online conferencing application with a central, desktop interface and a smartphone device for users to communicate from any place, with on or off video. Users may decide to record meetings, work on activities, and view or edit on screens with each other, all in one easy-to-use application. Zoom offers high -quality video, audio, and remote screen networking functionality through Windows Phone, Mac devices, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Zoom and H.322/SIP room networks. Zoom is typical all along and commonly used in this scenario. The video conferencing system has been the unquestioned pioneer in space throughout the nine years since its establishment. Zoom is one of the top video conferencing technology systems worldwide in 2020. It helps you to communicate with fellow workers remotely when in- person interactions are not feasible and have become immensely useful for social activities, too. Zoom has been an essential resource for tiny, medium, and broad teams that want to stay in contact and maintain their normal business processes with limited interruption-as well as being a firm favorite of users. Yet due to the current scenario, Zoom has lately seen an increase in technical expertise. When more and more people are being driven to work from home and remain safe, Zoom helps them to participate in fun ways to communicate with their peers. Zoom is useful to companies, with the best features the app provides, three options to Zoom and much more. If you operate a remote squad, Zoom can help you keep in contact with them that its intuitive features of video conferencing. There is an expense to using the updated function plans from Zoom, which needs to be paid. When you have the money, and the reaction is yes, invest in an updated package of Zoom. If the response is no, go back to working with your colleagues just the way you are working in free mode. 1.1 Zoom- A Video Conferencing Tool Zoom is a cloud-based video conference method that allows you to host one- on-one conference calls easily or group meetings. This will enable individuals to interact remotely from their place, and to engage in a conference, lecture, or work session. The Zoom application is downloaded to your device and is installed on it. It is comparable for a laptop to using google hangouts or Face time, and it works like any other application for phones or tablets. You will need to validate as a Department faculty, employees or student to enable the certificate the first time you connect to Zoom in, but the app should recall the password for subsequent logins. According to Zoom, the app is "the pioneer in digital video networking with a fast, secure cloud network for video and audio chat, interaction, talk, and webinars through smartphones, laptops, telephone lines, and room networks". Zoom is essentially a collaboration system that allows businesses and individuals to keep in touch with each other through the capabilities of video conferencing. The method has numerous benefits and strengths. If you are curious if Zoom is right for your business, continue reading this Zoom guide. This interactive communication device links interactive team leaders to one another with powerful audio, video, and collaboration tools. Main aspects of Zooming include High Definition live phone talk, VoIP (Voice over Information Protocol) video conferencing, and quick message, digital backdrops for video calling, sharing the cameras and interactive whiteboards and hosting webinars on Zoom. 1.2 Setup Requirements for Zoom Typically when people speak about Zoom, you will hear the following words: Zoom Conference and Zoom Room. A Zoom Meeting applies to “a group that holds a video conference using Zoom”. You may enter such meetings via a webcam or smartphone. In the meantime, a Zoom Room is “the actual equipment configuration that enables organizations from their meeting rooms to plan and initiate Zoom Meetings”. Internet access - wired or cellular internet (3G or 4G) and lowest possible bandwidth is six hundred kbps, and 1.6 Mbps is advised to use when conferencing with Zoom. Utilize the speed test to verify the Internet speed. A headset-built-in to your Bluetooth device, USB plug-in or wired, Built-in Laptop or Computer Headset Jack and if your laptop or mobile has headphones, you will need to put in a headphone because the speakers' voice would not scatter throughout the Zoom conference. Microphone For Zoom conferences and video calls, it is suggested to have a USB microphone with headset and earbuds. Suggestions for better performing USB Microphone are; Bluetooth Headphones Headsets of Plantronics Webcam A webcam-one that is installed into your device or one that attaches through USB to your device. If you want to use a better quality USB camera, Zoom recommends these; Logitech High Definition Webcams High Definition Webcams via Microsoft Supported Devices Zoom is supported by these devices; Android and iOS applications Microsoft Surface PRO 2 to Windows 8.1 Xbox Windows PRO 3 operating Windows 10 Blackberry Supported Web Browsers These web browsers can support Zoom; Windows: IE,7 +, Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome Mac: Mozilla Firefox, Safari +, Google Chrome Linux: Firefox, Google Chrome 1.3 How Much Zoom Costs? When breaking down the pricing structure in Zoom, The video conference