In this video, I'll give you a quick demo of how to best use Zoom for our live coaching
sessions.
Let me share my screen and I'll show you some of the tips and tools that I would recommend.
When you get the link, either through email or from a Facebook group, you'll be taken
to the right Zoom room.
You may have to install Zoom, so if it prompts you to do that, just go ahead and do that.
You can also access Zoom from the browser if you don't want to install.
The other thing is, if you're traveling, you can actually download the Zoom mobile
app on either your iPhone or Android or iPad, so that's also a great option if you're not
in front of a computer.
I'm just going to go across the bottom here.
First, we've got a mute button, and so generally, when you join the call, you are going to be
muted by default.
If you immediately join, then you're just going to want to make sure you navigate over
to that unmute option and just unmute yourself.
We may even prompt you to unmute yourself as well if you've got your hand raised and
we want to call on you.
Next up, you can also, for your audio, you can choose which mics.
I've got a few different mics connected to my computer, so generally, you're just going
to leave this as same as system and that should work just fine, but if you're using something
else and you've got an external mic, like I've got this one here, you can actually pick
your microphone here and you can choose your speakers here as well, so if you're running
into any issues you can't hear or we can't hear you, just check this and make sure the
right input is selected.
Next up, you have an option here to stop video or start video.
You can also click on this little up arrow and choose the specific webcam, so if you
have a webcam on your computer or like me, I've got a separate camera right here that
I'm recording with, I can choose that input source right there.
There's even options to blur the background, which I don't really use too much, but it's
a cool feature and that's where you do all that.
Next up, we have a chat room, so you definitely want to keep the chat open.
The chat gets used all the time during our sessions, so feel free to just keep asking
questions there, ask other people questions.
We do monitor the chat the whole time and it is a great way to not interrupt what's
being taught, but just make sure that you get your question answered or at least get
in the queue to be answered.
So chat's great there, and if you ever can't find it or if it's not right, just kind of
navigate down to the bottom here and you can turn it on and off just like this.
The next thing here is sharing your screen, so if you're on an open coaching session and
we invite you to share your screen, just look for the green button that's right there.
I'll try and point to it.
You click on that and then you'll be prompted with a little pop-up here, and so what you
want to do is typically we'll just go ahead and share your entire desktop.
So we'll go to the top left here, we'll share desktop, and then hit this blue share button
below.
So make sure that desktop is selected here, so desktop, and then click the blue share
in the bottom right.
If you do want to just share from a specific window, you can see all my applications are
listed out here, and I could click on just that window and hit share if I wanted to.
The other option I'll share here is if you have your iPhone or iPad plugged in via a
cable, so if you use the cable that came with your iPhone or your iPad and it's plugged
into your computer, you can actually share your iPhone screen to Zoom.
So that's very helpful if we're doing something on TikTok or you're running into an issue
where we need to see your screen.
I am not sure that this works on Android, so full disclosure, I'm not sure that works
on Android.
I do see it says only iPhone and iPad there, so I'm assuming it's only going to be those
two.
So if not, we typically just have you hold your phone up to the screen, to the camera,
and we'll just try and help you out from there.
So you click on this, you click sharing, and now my entire screen is being shared, and
I will get this little toolbar now.
So Zoom has this little bar that I can move around, and it lets me unmute myself and get
back to the chat.
So sometimes we'll drop a link for you to get to the chat.
You just want to keep that bar close by.
And then you've got this red stop share button.
So when you're done sharing, hit stop share, and you'll be back to watching the regular
Zoom call here.
So the other thing, moving over to the right, is the reactions.
So if you have a question, you can put, do the raised hand.
So if I click on that, you see it's put this little hand emoji.
right up there, I guess that right there.
And what that does is on our screen, it shows everybody who has their hand
raised, and then we can just call on you.
So when we get to Q and a time, we can see that you have a question or a comment
and just having your hand raised, just, you can just leave it up there the whole
time until, and we'll just lower it for you when we're done answering your
question.
So you can also click on reactions again and you can click lower hand and that is
everything there.
The last thing for Zoom is if you want to save the chat, sometimes a lot of good
advice is being given.
A lot of links are being shared in the chat during the session.
You can actually save a copy of all of those messages to your computer so you can
go back to them later.
So rather than having to copy and paste everything out of the chat at the end,
just go to the bottom right.
You'll see these three dots that are right there.
You click on that and I'm going to move this up a bit so you can see what I'm
doing here.
If you click on these three dots and one of the options right there is to say
save chats.
If I click on that, it's actually going to save that to my computer and I can
click show in Finder and it will take me to that file on my computer.
So that's there.
You don't have to go and take notes for all the awesome content that's being
shared in the chat.
So if you have any questions, just shoot us an email to help at kmwsupport.com.
You can also text us at 404-383-4709.
So we look forward to seeing you in our Zoom calls.