Using blurred background In instances where you want the privacy of your surroundings, but cannot get a custom virtual background because it is unavailable or does not suit your needs, the blur background option may be an excellent alternative. You can use this option in order to blur the background of the video, obscuring anyone…
Overview The Zoom app language settings are affected by the Mac operating system language settings and the app language settings. If changing the Mac operating system language setting does not change the language, change the language setting of the app. The Zoom client supports the following languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) English French German…
The admin settings for an account allow all users to have their settings changed. Users can also choose whether they wish to lock setting changes on or off to avoid them being changed by other users. It is important to note that the account settings are similar to those available for groups of users and…
Overview The Zoom web portal and Zoom help center can be customized so that it displays a Zoom Help badge in the bottom right hand corner when users are signed in to their Zoom account as well as on the Zoom web portal when they are signed in. You can use Zoom’s chat feature to…
For Zoom Meetings with a group, is there a limit lift of 40 minutes? Zoom has temporarily lifted the 40-minute time limit on groups Zoom Meetings that have three or more members in anticipation of the onset of the global pandemic, which will be initiated at the beginning of March of 2020 in order to…
Under Zoom’s authentication profile, small groups (under 16 years of age) can join Zoom meetings anonymously and securely without the need to register for a Zoom account. For prevent unauthorized access from outside the school, Zoom’s authentication profiles are one of the most important features. As long as your students use a school email address,…
According to the U.S. “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”, HIPAA business associate agreements (BAA) are contracts between HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates (BAs). HIPAA guidelines govern the protection of personal health information (PHI) in this contract. Here is more information about Zoom’s compliance with HIPAA. Configuration of Zoom account BAA For covered entities…
With authentication profiles, meeting hosts can restrict meeting attendees and webinar attendees to only those who are registered in Zoom and even further restrict all Zoom users whose email addresses match the specified domain. For example, if you want to restrict the user list to users who are verified to your organization or to users…
While a meeting or webinar is taking place, participants can select from the chat feature to communicate with each other. The hosting of the meeting or webinar can set who participants can chat with. As an alternative to disabling the chat feature for all participants, you can also disable private messages so participants will not…
Recently, Zoom learned that an automated test of thousands of numerical combinations could be used to predict Zoom meeting IDs by simply testing the validity of those combinations quickly. You can find more information in the document attached, which discusses Zoom’s response to these issues further in detail. The Zoom team would like to thank…
