I wish you a very happy and prosperous new year! Our team is looking forward to sharing new features that will enhance productivity, enhance your connections, and create engaging experiences in 2023.

We’re looking forward to seeing how you use these features, whether it’s to create your own avatar or to simplify your meetings with meeting templates.

We’ve added the following new features:

Zoom avatars

Avatars will be added to our filter collection to make meetings more flexible and fun. We have provided animal avatars earlier this year, but avatars are customisable virtual characters that you can use in meetings. The ‘virtual you’ can be displayed in a unique and fun way thanks to the many personalization options! You can be more engaging in your meetings with avatars, which emphasize your movements and facial expressions without needing to be on video, and present yourself dynamically without needing to be on video.

When you use avatars, you can do the following:

• Are you trying to avoid being seen eating, while still showing that you’re engaged and present?

• Want to present a more dynamic profile picture than an off-camera static image

• Trying to come up with fun activities for onboarding employees, team bonding exercises, or previously boring meetings?

Zoom users worldwide can currently use avatars in beta. When creating human avatars, we’ll continuously add facial features, hairstyles, and customization options.

Meeting templates

It’s no secret that different meeting types require different Zoom webinar window smaller, other options will move to [ Details ]. There are also new settings – whether it’s a client meeting, product design meeting, or team-building meeting.

Depending on the type of meeting you are hosting, adjusting your settings is time-consuming. The process can now be simplified by creating, saving, and selecting custom meeting templates, which will automatically apply the appropriate setting.

Our meeting templates include these three ready-to-use ones to make things even simpler:

• Large Meetings: Availability of automated captions for all participants and the automatic recording of content makes these meetings ideal for team-wide meetings and town halls.

• Seminars: Ideal for corporate training and higher education classrooms. Participants’ screens are not shared during seminars.

• K-12: Suitable for K-12 classrooms that facilitate greater student engagement and productivity by allowing advanced polls and quizzes.

You’ll feel more comfortable knowing you’ve scheduled the right type of meeting by using Meeting Templates, rather than spending time tinkering with settings.

Threaded messages and reactions in in-meeting chat

When you hold Zoom Meetings, the in-meeting chat is an essential tool for sharing resources, information, and comments. With threaded messages and reactions, our in-meeting chat participants can create threads and consolidate reactions with emojis. This clarifies which messages participants are responding to and helps organize the chat messages.

Q&A in meetings

You can engage your webinar attendees with Zoom Webinars‘ Q&A feature. Your meetings will now benefit from the same functionality. With Q&A, meeting hosts can view and answer questions in one place, helping them stay organized.

In future meetings, you won’t have to sift through the chats to ensure you’ve answered everything. Co-hosts and hosts may dismiss questions from the Q&A pop-out. Hosts can choose whether all questions or only those that have been answered should be visible to meeting participants.

When participating in Zoom One Business, Zoom One Business Plus, Zoom One Enterprise, and Zoom One Enterprise Plus meetings, participants may ask and answer questions. If you want to know how to enable Q&A for meetings, check out this article.

Learn more about what’s new with Zoom

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FAQs

Transcription of meetings, video clipping, file sharing, translation, and interfaces with productivity apps are some of the additional technological capabilities that are anticipated to be added in the coming years in order to improve the overall quality of the user experience.