Certain video conferencing settings have been automatically changed by Zoom, this means that some video conferencing steps may not work the same as they used to. It is important to read all the changes that have taken place so that you know how to use video conferencing.

Automatically mute all participants when they join the meeting. The host controls whether participants can unmute themselves.

You can mute all participants that are already in the meeting as well as new participants joining the meeting. 

1. Select Manage Participants

2. Select Mute All

3. You will be prompted to Allow participants to unmute themselves. Clicking Continue will mute all current and new participants

In Kinderpedia, Parents/Students will see the Join Conference button with 5 minutes before the scheduled time and 10 minutes after the finishing time for the specific activity. For example: Mathematics from 10 to 11. Participants can join from 9:55 and up to 11:10. This is because the meeting can end after 40 minutes and the teacher can start another one right after. This way, if a 2nd meeting is started, participants can enter it until 11:10. After this all entry is closed.

When attendees join a meeting, place them in a waiting room and require the host to admit them individually. Enabling the waiting room automatically disables the setting for allowing attendees to join before host.

1. As the meeting host, click Manage Participants.
2. Click Admit to have the participant join the meeting.

1. As the meeting host, click Manage Participants.
2. Click Admit all.

The person creating the conference has full control over it and the settings. The "Co-host" function is disabled by default and this means that another teacher or student cannot control the conference, cannot share the screen or cannot turn off the students' microphone. It is important and recommended NOT to make a student / parent HOST a CO-HOST because you may lose control of the conference.

If a teacher enters the conference and you want to have equal rights then you can co-host him.

Screen sharing is possible just for the Host. Participants cannot share their screen.

1. Click the Share Screen button located in your meeting controls. 

2. If you want to allow other teachers or even students or parents to share the screen then we will go to the arrow next to "Share Screen"> Advanced Share Options

A window will appear in which you will check who has the right to share the screen. If you choose "All Participants" then ALL participants will be able to share the screen, if we choose Only Host then only the conference creator will be able to share the screen.

3. (Optional) Enable these features:

Check Share Computer Sound: If you check this option, any sound played by your computer will be shared in the meeting.

Check Optimize for full screen video clip: Check this if you will be sharing a video clip in full screen mode. Do not check this otherwise, as it may cause the shared screen to be blurry.

4. Click Share.

Zoom will automatically switch to full screen to optimize the shared screen view. To exit full-screen, click Exit Full Screen in the top-right corner or press the Esc key. 

To disable automatic full screen when viewing a shared screen, disable this option in your desktop client settings: Enter full screen automatically when a participant shares screen.

When you start sharing your screen, the meeting controls will move into a menu that you can drag around your screen.

Participants who have been kicked out of the meeting by the host cannot return. If one of the participants has disturbed the lesson it can be kicked out with the "Remove" option.

Allow host to split meeting participants into separate, smaller rooms
Allow host to assign participants to breakout rooms when scheduling

A password will be requested for participants who join from a mobile device (this password is NOT from the Kinderpedia application)

A numeric password will be required for participants joining by phone if your meeting has a password. For meeting with an alphanumeric password, a numeric version will be generated.