
This will provide a one-time only Meeting ID. When scheduling a meeting, you can ensure you’re not using your personal meeting ID by choosing the “Generate Automatically” button in your meeting preferences (see figure 1).

Use of your personal meeting ID: If you are hosting a publicly accessible virtual event/meeting on Zoom and need to share meeting information with the masses, avoid using your personal meeting ID to set it up. This will ensure that people who aren’t part of your organization don’t have access to the private meeting. To avoid this issue, only share meeting links via secure email or chat. Sharing links to meetings: It’s important to know that if you share a link to a meeting on a public forum, anyone who sees that link will have access to your meeting. Before the Meeting Starts – Know Your Options We encourage you to get acquainted with all the options you have for meeting settings here as familiarity with these settings will be helpful when reviewing tips below. Here you’ll find a comprehensive list of settings for Zoom in one place. To start reviewing your settings, visit login, and click “Settings” on the left-hand side menu of the homepage. Nice to Meet You – Getting to Know Zoom’s Settingsīefore we jump into some specific “how-to” tips, it’s important to go over the basics of Zoom settings. To give you some peace of mind, we’re sharing a few tips to help protect your meetings from random visitors. Over the past few weeks, Zoom users have reported everything from uninvited guests playing pranks during a meeting, to more serious offenses such as stolen information obtained during a private conversation. We all know that Zoom is a great software to help us adhere to social distancing guidelines, while still maintaining the personal touch that comes with in-person collaboration – but it’s equally important to consider that Zoom software, when not used correctly, can introduce cyber security risk. For many, this new routine involves hosting and attending Zoom meetings to connect virtually with colleagues and friends.

With a few weeks of quarantine under our belts, we’re all finally settling into the new norm of COVID-19.
