Workshop and Video Technology

If you have not done so yet, the first thing you should do is set-up your Zoom account. It should be noted that if you have any other Zoom account, even under a different email, you will have to consolidate that account with your USask account. The link above tells you what to do in that scenarios.

Your account was set up to require every person to go to a waiting room and you having to admit each person one by one. If you would like to shut this off because it would be inconvenient for you to do go to "Settings" on your side menu. The option to uncheck this will be the second one down. See below.

Typically in workshops and conferences, no one has their video on.  Not even the presenter. If you would like to set it up so that when the meetings start everyone’s cameras are off in go to "Scheduled Meetings" in the second side menu shown above, which is right under "Security." You'll have the option to start the meeting with just the participants' camera off, or just the host's, or both.  Note that this is only for SCHEDULED meetings.  


If you scroll down a bit more you have the option to mute everyone upon entering the meeting. 



If you scroll down even further you are given the option to add co-hosts and polls. This may already be enabled but you may want to make sure it is in yours if you would like to add co-hosts or polls.

If, for or privacy reasons, you would like to hide the profile pictures of the participants and allow them to rename themselves to remove their last names if they like you can find these options at the bottom, right before "Advanced" options.. 



You may want to check out the "Email Notifications" from the second side menu as well:

There are number of options there you ,may want to change.