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If you've ever been in a large Zoom meeting and suddenly found yourself in a smaller meeting with a few other participants, you've been in a breakout room. This powerful tool allows meeting organizers ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Zoom has become a household name lately, and it's not hard to understand why — it's one of the best ways for professionals to meet with colleagues ...
If you're using Zoom for online class or remote work, you've likely mastered the art of the Zoom background at this point. Why Zoom from the foot of your bed when you can pretend to be on a white sand ...
Click the Breakout room button on meeting control bar (it may be under the More menu). Choose the number of rooms you want to create and how many attendees should be in each. Attendees can be moved ...
As a meeting host, you can split your meeting participants into breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting. This can be useful if you already know how you want to split up your participants. Note for ...
The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. A conversation broke out on Twitter last week. How do you make ...
Facebook’s new video-conferencing service debuted in the U.S., Mexico and Canada on Thursday, with the rest of the world set to get the new feature next week. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing the ...
Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...
While video chat is no replacement for in-person interaction, sometimes it’s the best you can do. I’ve never loved chatting through tiny screens, though. It just feels so distant to hunch over a phone ...