Your Personal Meeting ID is a permanent meeting link that you can use over and over for different meetings. However if you're finding this difficult, you can use your Personal Meeting ID. You can use your Personal Meeting ID link or set up a unique meeting (instructions below).įor security reasons it's strongly recommended that you set up a unique meeting. There are 2 ways you can set up a meeting. If you’d like to use one of our paid accounts you can email us at. This is usually manageable for group meetings, but in cases where you need unlimited call times – such as open or formal meetings or online events – we have a few paid accounts that are available for groups. You can easily get around this by ending the call and restarting it immediately, which refreshes the limit.
There are some limitations to free accounts, most notably, calls are limited to 40 minutes. We encourage you to create and use a free Zoom account for your meetings. While you don’t need an account to join a Zoom meeting, you will need one to set up meetings.
Breakout rooms – if you want to break into small group discussions.Dial in – to allow people to call in via their phone (they will be charged at their normal call rate).Chatbox – good for managing who’s turn it is to speak, or as a backup for those who can’t.Host controls – mute participants, record the meeting, create "breakout" rooms, remove attendees.Recording – a great way to make an online event accessible to people who couldn’t attend.Screensharing – useful for sharing a presentation or a meeting agenda.Zoom has useful features for both group meetings and bigger, online events: In this instance you won’t be able to use host controls such as muting participants or recording the meeting. Caveat: you can also set up the meeting so that it runs without a host, for instance, if you create the meeting with your account but you’re not able to attend the meeting yourself. The only person that needs an account is the person setting up and running the meeting: the ”host”. The main benefit of Zoom is that anyone with a meeting link can join your call, without needing an account, making meetings or online events easy and accessible. Things may appear slightly differently on other operating systems or devices, such as Macs, tablets or smartphones. Throughout this guide, the images used are from a Windows machine. In-meeting controls (we've made a short video to demonstrate these).