Participate on Zoom by speaking, joining breakout rooms, share your screen and more

In a Zoom meeting you should be able to do the same as in regular meetings, and a little more:

Ask for permission to speak / raise your hand

If you want to ask questions, comment or join a discussion, you can raise your hand and thus ask for permission to speak. The host can see that you raise your hand, and lets you talk when it's your turn. Remember that you should mute your microphone when you are not speaking, but remember to turn it on when you speak.

NOTE: The host of a meeting cannot raise his hand. If you are the host and want to say something, you decide for yourself when, and then speak.

To raise your hand in a meeting

1. Move the mouse pointer to the bottom of the Zoom window in an active meeting. Click on Participants.

2. A list of the participants in the meeting is displayed on the right. At the bottom of the list of participants you will find some symbols for activity. To ask for permission to speak, click the Raise hand icon.

3. The hand icon will appear next to your name in the list, and the host of the meeting will let you speak when it's your turn. Remember to turn on the sound when talking and turn off the sound again when you are done (mute/unmute). You can do this by clicking on the microphone icon next to the hand icon in the list.

4. If you change your mind and do not want to say something anyway, you can lower your hand by holding the mouse pointer over your name and click Lower hand. 

Participate in a chat

If it's not appropriate to speak, or you just want to post a link or send a message to one or all participants, you can join a chat in the Zoom meeting:

1. Move the mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen. In the menu bar that appears, click the Chat icon. If the Chat icon does not appear, click the More icon (three dots) to display more icons.

2. You will see the Chat window. All participants in the meeting are displayed in the To drop-down menu, and you can choose whether the message you write should go to only one participant or to all.

Share your screen / show a presentation

An important element in many meetings is to share the content on the screen with all participants or show a presentation. At the UiO, the default setting is that only the host of the meeting can share screen. This is a security measure. If others need to share screen or show a presentation, they should be made co-hosts.

• Read How to share your screen

Respond to polls

To break up a meeting or a lecture, or to find out what the participants think about a topic, you can introduce a poll. The poll will look different depending on how it is made.

If a poll appears in meeting or a lecture, just click on the answer you want to give. The answers are anonymous.

• Read more about polling

Participate in groups (breakout rooms)

In lectures and meetings, there may be a need to divide the participants into groups. In Zoom, this is called breakout rooms. If the meeting/lecture you are in is divided into breakout rooms, you will see a notification on your screen. Click OK to go to your group (in Zoom). When the host of the meeting wants to gather the participants again, you will be notified again, and you click OK to return to the full meeting. The group rooms will be closed at a specific time, so if you have not clicked OK before, you will be returned to the original meeting anyway.

• Read mote about Breakout rooms