Aside from scheduling a Zoom meeting, you can also start an instant Zoom meeting and can manually invite people to join through the invite link. There are two ways to do this:
On your Zoom desktop app:
- Click Home tab and select the New Meeting button. You can click on the down arrow to toggle the video camera option.
Note: By default, the meetings start with video on.
- In the Zoom meeting, click on more for a scroll down option to come up then click on Copy Invite Link to copy the meeting invite link.
- To invite: You can email the link using Outlook/webmail, upload it to Moodle as URL (for students), or send it to employees through Teams messaging.
- To get information about the meeting click on the top left corner of the page and you will get all the information.
Using Zoom web portal:
- Once signed into the Zoom web portal, click Host on the top-right corner and choose the required option to initiate the meeting: With video on/off or screen share only (you can change it later on in the meeting).
- It might open the meeting in the Zoom Client app or prompt you to open one (assuming you have it installed). Cancel the option in the pop up.
- Open the meeting in the Zoom app, you can choose the option Join from your web browser instead.
- If you opened a meeting in your web browser, click the info icon, copy the invite link and send it to participants (as mentioned above in step 3).
