AI meeting assistants or “bots” can be used for monitoring, summarizing, and recording virtual meetings. They are powerful tools for the purposes of accessibility and convenience but should also be used with caution. Whenever AI is involved, you should know how its use could impact your privacy and…

Online meetings are a fixture for much of the workforce today, and they’re a communication technology that is easily taken for granted. But for many in the speech diverse and the stuttering community, spaces that prioritize verbal communication (such as video calls) present unique challenges around…

The Zoom Client is Now Zoom Workplace On April 15, 2024, version 6.0.0 of the Zoom client app began to be rolled out to customers. Reflecting Zoom’s expanding set of features, the updated Zoom client is now branded as “Zoom Workplace.” Cornell account holders will notice this branding in the…

Starting Sunday, March 17, 2024, Cornell will make Zoom options available that give Cornell hosts and participants the ability to allow and control sharing of Zoom Whiteboards to participants outside Cornell. This functionality previously required a request to IT staff to be enabled for Cornell…

Automated gesture recognition features have gained popularity. They allow people to create emojis and animations during online video sessions through physical gestures seen onscreen, and include both Zoom’s gesture recognition feature and a separate feature offered on Apple devices that can trigger…

Starting Sunday, October 15, 2023, Zoom hosts and co-hosts who use breakout rooms will have the ability to view the activity level of participants in breakout rooms. After session participants have been added to breakout rooms, the hosts and co-hosts will be able to see information about…

Cornell has made changes to options to improve Zoom's synchronization with integrated calendars and to provide additional options for those who have been granted Schedule Privileges on a user's behalf.

Starting Thursday, April 27, 2023, the Zoom Polls/Quizzes library will be available for Cornell Zoom meeting and webinar hosts.

Starting Sunday, January 15, 2023, Cornell Zoom sessions will offer a new way for hosts and participants to collaborate.

If Outlook is automatically adding an unwanted online meeting whenever you schedule new events in your Outlook calendar, you may simply need to turn off the option that controls this behavior. This option is often activated by default through either the Microsoft Teams or Zoom Outlook integrations…

In response to customer feedback, Zoom will be delaying the update requirement described below. Nonetheless, it is strongly recommended that Cornell users keep Zoom client programs and apps updated regularly. Beginning November 1, 2021, Zoom will require all users to keep their copies of…

Starting Sunday, August 16, 2020, Zoom’s Telephone Call-out feature will no longer be available for hosts and attendees of Cornell Zoom meetings whose host does not have a Premium Audio license.

While we launched Zoom in fall 2016 and have seen an increase in remote meetings, there may be some neat functions about the service that you aren’t familiar with yet. Even if you’ve become a Zoom regular, we invite you to check out these features:

Microsoft recently added an option that, when set, automatically schedules an online meeting (using either the Microsoft Teams or Zoom integration) when scheduling any new event in Outlook. If you do not use Teams for online meetings, or if you would prefer not to have an online meeting…

If they have not already done so, meeting hosts must Enable Annotation of Shared Content in a Zoom Meeting in their user settings before annotations can be used in their class meetings.For more information on sharing your screen, see also&

“Zoom Rooms” are a new dedicated classroom technology from Zoom that give instructors the option to better coordinate their visual collaboration—video screen sharing, whiteboards, and annotation resources—in a Zoom-enabled classroom. Zoom Room systems are being provided in spaces…

GeneralFor detailed technical requirements, see the Zoom System Requirements for PC, Mac, and Linux on the Zoom website. Their page includes lists of vendor-suggested cameras, microphones, speakers, and other peripherals.

Keep Zoom meetings and webinars private and safe from unwanted attendees and Zoombombing and learn about Strategies to Block AI Bots from Zoom Sessions.Zoom is provided free of charge for current faculty, staff, students, and affiliates at all Cornell campuses.