What’s New in Zoom?
April 29, 2022
Newest updates are bolded. Posted at CETL > Resources > Technology > Zoom.
Breakout Rooms
- Purpose: Breakout rooms are separate sessions (isolated in terms of audio and video) from the main session that can be used for collaboration and discussion of the meeting.
- Features: Hosts can share their screens to all breakout rooms; broadcast messages to all breakout rooms; join breakout rooms; move participants between breakout rooms; create, remove, and rename breakout rooms after launch; save breakout rooms for future use; and view statuses of participants in breakout rooms. Participants can self-select which breakout room to join; share their screens in breakout rooms; and record in a breakout room.
- How to Enable
- How to Preassign Participants to Breakout Rooms
- How to Manage Breakout Rooms
- How to Participate in Breakout Rooms
Enable/Disable Chat
- Purpose: Chat allows participants to type messages to each other during a meeting.
- Features: Hosts can adjust participants’ ability to chat privately or publicly. All Zoom users can adjust their Zoom chat notification settings.
- How to Disable Private Chats
- How to Disable Chat
- How to Change Chat Notification Settings
Focus Mode
- Purpose: “Designed with the digital learning environment in mind,” focus mode “allows students to stay attentive or work on their tasks while under supervision, without being distracted by others and their tasks”
- Features: Participants cannot see each other’s videos but can see their own video and other participants’ names, nonverbal feedback or reactions, and hear them when unmuted
- How to Enable
- How to Use
Custom Gallery View
- Purpose: Easily take attendance in a meeting or class
- Features: Save the arrangement of participants as a custom seating chart for a meeting
- How to Reorganize the Gallery View
- How to Save for Future Use
Meeting Templates
- Purpose: Easily create multiple meetings with the same settings
- Features: Use one meeting’s settings (like allowing participants to join before host, recording automatically, and muting participants upon entry) for other meetings
- Create a Template
- Schedule a Meeting from a Template
Polls & Quizzes
- Purpose: Engage meeting participants by soliciting their input or assessing their knowledge
- Features: Question types include single choice, multiple choice, matching, rank order, short answer, long answer, fill in the blank, and rating scale. Questions can display images, can be answered anonymously, and can have correct answers. Hosts can see results live and share them with meeting participants. The same polls and quizzes can be made available in all your meetings. Poll and quiz reports can be downloaded.
- How to Enable
- How to Create
Post-Meeting Survey
- Purpose: Collect feedback from meeting participants as soon as a meeting ends
- Features: Meeting hosts create a survey that Zoom displays in participants’ browsers as soon as the meeting ends. Question types include single choice, multiple choice, rating, and long answer.
- How to Enable
- How to Use
Whiteboard
- Purpose: Share live visualizations or collaborate with meeting participants
- Features: Draw shapes or lines, write, or highlight, create lines or arrows, type text, create sticky notes, upload images, erase, or change colors. Determine whether meeting participants can collaborate, view, or comment. Whiteboards are automatically saved to your Zoom desktop client and web portal account.
- How to Create
- How to Share
- Zoom Whiteboard User Guide