Take control of your meeting experience by setting up Zoom to work how you want it. From scheduling meetings that automatically generate calendar invites to enable helpful advanced features, Zoom can be optimized to fit your preferences.
Zoom makes it easy to schedule meetings that sync with your Outlook calendar or allow you to copy the meeting invite to send manually.
1. Open the Zoom desktop app or go to cusystem.zoom.us and sign in using SSO.
2. Click the Schedule button.
3. Fill in your meeting name, date, time and recurrence (if applicable).
4. Scroll down to the Calendar section and choose whether to sync with Outlook or another calendar platform.
5. Click Save to generate the meeting and corresponding calendar invite.
6. From your Outlook calendar, you can add participants, update details and send reminders.
7. Click Send.
Adjust your meeting defaults to better match your needs and enable advanced functionalities to help elevate your meetings and enhance accessibility.
Options like auto-mute on entry and auto-record help streamline your meetings, especially useful for training sessions and webinars where it's helpful to capture everything automatically.
1. Go to cusystem.zoom.us and sign in with SSO.
2. From the left-hand menu, select Settings.
3. Under the Meeting tab, review the General, In Meeting (Basic) and In Meeting (Advanced) sections.
4. Enable or disable features like:
a. Mute participants upon entry
b. Automatically record meetings
c. Breakout room support
d. Meeting chat permissions
e. Waiting rooms
f. Automated captions and transcription
g. Meeting polls and quizzes
h. Q&A for webinars (helps manage audience questions in large sessions)
i. Meeting reminders (sends alerts before scheduled meetings so nothing gets missed)
For example:
To automatically mute participants when they join meetings, navigate to Settings > Meeting > Schedule Meeting and enable Mute all participants when they join a meeting.
To record meetings automatically, navigate to Settings > Recording > General > enable Automatic recording.
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