Zoom Webinar Controls

Zoom Webinar Controls

Please note the following:

  • As you are expected to pre-record, it will be unlikely that you will need to use most of the Zoom functionality but this web page should still give you a good overview of the controls you will need for the live Q&A .
  • These instructions have been written for users running Zoom on a Windows operating system. While the controls should mainly be the same on Mac and Linux, some controls may be in slightly different places so you may wish to refer to the Zoom website.

In most cases, you will typically use Zoom under the following configuration:

  1. Screen Share  - The screen share where you will be watching your pre-recorded video or if presenting live will show your slides.
  2. Webcam Feed - Shows your webcam feed and the feed of the track host and any other panelists. This can be adjusted by hovering over this panel and choosing one of the three different options.
  3. Presentation Controls - These are the controls that you can use during your presentation. More information on each of these controls will be provided shortly.
  4. Q&A Panel - This is the panel that opens when the Q&A button is pressed in the presentation controls
    • In the Open tab you will find all of the questions that are currently open and are waiting to be answered.
      1. You can then choose to “answer live” as part of the presentation
      2. Or you can choose to “Type Answer” and type your answer as a response.
      3. Or you can choose to dismiss the question where it will then go to the dismissed tab.
    • More information and examples on how to use the Q&A can be found here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/203686015-Using-Q-A-as-the-webinar-host
  5. Participants Panel - This is the panel that opens when the participants panel is pressed in the presentation controls.
    • The panelists tab shows all of the attendees who are panelists.
    • The attendees tab shows all of the other attendees. From this you can,
      1. Promote an attendee to become a panelist which gives them the ability to turn their webcam and microphone on.
      2. Invite an attendee to talk which can be used as a means to facilitate questions.
      3. Send a private message to an attendee (note that this will be seen by other panelists as well)
  6. Chat Panel - This will be disabled for ADC

Live Presenters

This section is for live presenters only

If you are presenting live, then you may wish to use the following controls:

  • Microphone and Webcam - Here you can turn your microphone and webcam on or off as well as configure your device settings for the webinar.
  • Participants - Opens the participants panel shown earlier.
  • Q&A - Opens the Q&A Panel shown earlier
  • Polls - Opens the polls panel where you can set polls for attendees to vote on (which have to be set AHEAD of your presentation).
    1. This opens the Polling panel which then shows the questions you have submitted. Press Launch Poll and the users will then be asked to vote on all the questions you have posted.
    2. When you are finished, click End Poll. At this point you will then see the results.
    3. If you would like to share the results to the participants in the meeting, click Share Results. Participants will then see the results of the polling questions.
    4. If you would like to review the results of the poll after your presentation, please let me know and we will send you the report that Zoom makes.

More information on how polls work can be found here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/203749865-Polling-for-webinars

  • New Share - Allows you to replace your current screen share with a new screen share. This is useful if you need to switch between different application windows. More information on how to setup and use screen shares can be found here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362153-Sharing-your-screen
  • Pause Share - This allows you to pause your current screen share if you need to access sensitive information without people being able to see it
  • Annotate - This allows you to make notes and draw on your screen share. This is useful if you need to highlight information within your screen or slides. More information on the different annotation tools you have available can be found here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005706806-Using-annotation-tools-on-a-shared-screen-or-whiteboard
  • More 
    • Share computer sound - This allows you to enable/disable the sharing of audio from your computer. This should be enabled if you need to play any videos or audio.
    • Optimize Screen Sharing For Video Clip - This allows you to enable/disable this setting. This setting should be enabled if you need to share video content in your presentation.

There are also other settings under More but in most cases, you shouldn’t need to be concerned about any of them.

When you want to end your screen share session, press the stop share button directly under the presentation controls