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There are additional features that you can use within your Zoom meeting which help you to make the most of your time, allowing easier collaboration and more effective meeting management.
Whiteboard
The whiteboard feature allows all participants to collaborate together, like they would do in a face to face whiteboard session.
To use the whiteboard, click share on the meeting control bar within your meeting and then select whiteboard. You can type on the whiteboard or draw freehand.
Polling
Polling allows you ask questions to your attendees whilst in the meeting. Taking a poll can be easier and quicker than verbally asking a series of questions, especially if you have a lot of attendees present.
Each poll can have up to 10 questions and these can be binary (either/or) or multiple choice. If you know what you are going to ask in advance of your meeting, you can set up your poll in advance. Otherwise, you can set this up in the meeting, though this may be distracting or time consuming to attempt while the meeting is running. If possible, always try to set up a poll in advance.
Breakout rooms
Breakout rooms allow attendees of a meeting to split out in to a number of other separate virtual spaces within the meeting, just like you may separate into smaller groups in a face to face meeting.
Raise hand and other non-verbal feedback
Non-verbal feedback can be a good way of providing or exchanging quick pieces of information in a meeting, without interrupting the main speaker. The host can ask a quick question with a yes or no answer such as 'can everyone hear ok?'. Attendees can also give feedback through emojis, raising their hand if they need to say something, or by notifying that they need to take a break which can be useful in long meetings.
The meeting chat can be used to have a discussion without interrupting the speaker. For example, you may have the host giving a presentation and another person answering questions that come up from the attendees within the chat. The chat can also be used to exchange information however please note that file transfer in chat is disabled at UCL for security reasons.
How to guides
Some of this content links to external sites.
- Sharing a whiteboard (Zoom content)
- Polling for meetings (Zoom content)
- Breakout rooms
- Raise your hand in a meeting
- Meeting chat
- Non-verbal feedback (Zoom content)
- Schedule a meeting in Zoom
Help and support
- Contact Zoom support