Managing Bigger Classes

There are a few ways to set up your meetings if you wish to limit your participants to only be able to view and listen to you.

They are useful in managing the bigger lecture groups, make meetings like an event webinar and also to prevent "Zoom Bombers" from taking over your stage.

Focus Mode - NEW

Zoom now offers the new Focus Mode to help students focus better during online learning. It allow students to stay attentive.

Focus mode can be started by Host and Co-Hosts of the meeting, using a Zoom desktop client with version 5.7.3 or higher.

• Students will continue see host, co-hosts videos, spotlighted participants and shared presentations​
• Host and co-host(s) will continue to see all participant's videos​
• Participants will not see other participants (non-hosts) videos​
• Participants will only see other participants boxes with their display name
• Participants can still see other participants non-verbal feedback or reactions, and hear them when unmuted
• Participants can still see their own video

To start Focus mode as the host or co-host of a meeting:

1. Start a meeting as the host or co-hosts.
2. Click More  on the meeting toolbar.
3. Click Start Focus Mode.
4. Click Start to confirm, or select the Don’t ask me again check box to skip this confirmation going forward.
5. When Focus mode begins, you and the participants are notified with a banner along the top of the video window.
   The focus mode  icon is always visible in the top-left corner of the video window, next to the encryption icon, while focus mode is active.

To end Focus mode:

1. Click More  on the meeting toolbar.
2. Click Stop Focus Mode. 

Additional Guide: Focus mode – Zoom Help Center

Security Button (in-meeting security options)

• Once you have started the Zoom meeting, click on Security Button .
  
  
• Select/unselect the relevant options. What each option does:
  1. Lock Meeting: Prevents new participants from joining the meeting.
  2. Enable Waiting Room: Enables Waiting Room for incoming new participants
  3. Hide Profile Pictures: Hide all profile pictures, including the host. Display names are shown instead.
  4. Share Screen: Allows participants to share their screens.
  5. Chat: Allows participants to use the text chat function.
  6. Rename themselves: Allow participant to rename themselves.
  7. Unmute themselves: Allow participant to unmute their mic themselves.
  8. Start Video: Allow participant to start sending their webcam video
  9. Share Whiteboard: Allows participants to share whiteboards.
  10. Suspend Participant Activities All video, audio, in-meeting chat, annotation, screen sharing, and recording during that time will stop, and Breakout Rooms will end.

Allow Participants to Chat with Host(s) only

In the host controls, click on Security Button.

• Check Allow Participants to Chat:

In the host controls, click on Chat Button.

• You may want to control who attendees can chat with:
  1. No one: Disable the text chat.
  2. Host only: Allows them to ONLY chat with Host and Co-Hosts.
  3. Everyone publicly: Allows them to ONLY chat publicly. No private chat.
  4. Everyone publicly and privately: The default option. Allows them to chat publicly and privately.
     
     

Spotlight video on yourself or a selected participant

1. Hover over the video of the participant you want to spotlight and click ...
2. Select Spotlight Video.
3. Spotlight video puts a participants as the primary active speaker for all participants.
4. All participants will only see this speaker as the active speaker.
   Note: Pin video is different. Pin video will only make the participant as primary only on your device.
   
   

Use with Poll Everywhere for an enhanced Live Response tool

1. In Zoom, you can do a simple poll with single option or multiple option MCQ.
2. You may want to consider using Poll Everywhere to engage students just like in a physical class.
3. There are questions types Q&A and Word Cloud which are highly popular.
4. Refer to the step by step guide on using Poll Everywhere with Zoom.