[Colorado-Talk] A Quick Zoom Reference And A Security Tip For Those Hosting Meetings

[Showe Trela]

Great tips, David. I too like the masking of the telephone option. 
Have a lovely day. 

Showe


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> On Oct 30, 2020, at 8:44 AM, David Dunphy via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello To All!
> Since we're using zoom heavily right now, especially during
> convention, I thought the following info might be useful to some who
> might just want a quick reference guide on how to do some things with
> zoom. Also, I've got a quick security tip to help those hosting
> meetings.
> But first, just some basic in meeting commands. Feel free to share
> this with anyone you think would benefit:
> 1. TO mute and unmute, which is a toggle, so the same command will
> work to do both
> ON the pc: Alt A
> From the mac: command Shift A
> On the app: The mute and unmute toggle is in the lower left hand
> corner of your screen.
> On the phone if dialing in: Star6.
> 2. Raising And Lowering Your Hand, which like muting and unmuting is a toggle:
> On a windows pc: Alt Y
> On the mac: Option Y
> On the app:
> access the “more” button on the lower right corner and the raise hand
> feature appears.
> The only time the raising hand button will be on the main screen on
> the app is if you're in webinar, and you haven't been given permission
> to talk.
> If dialing in: Star 9
> 
> 2. A Security Tip For Running Zoom Meetings:
> Since sometimes people will call in by telephone, it might not be a
> bad idea to enable the masking of the full telephone number. This is
> so the person who is calling in doesn't have their telephone number on
> display on essentially a virtual billboard. So how it will appear to
> someone viewing that number unless renamed in the participant list is
> the area code, several stars, then the last 3 digits of the number. So
> the center's number, which is 303-778-1130
> if masked would show as
> 1303****130
> unless you renamed that owner's number to the person's name.
> I just think it's a good tip to keep people dialing in by phone's
> numbers secured. I have it on my account, and thought it might be
> useful to those who do a lot with hosting zoom meetings:
> To enable this on an account...
> 1. Sign into the zoom account on the zoom.us web site.
> 2. Navigate to settings on the web site once signed in.
> 3. You'll be placed in the meetings tab. Arrow down to the telephone
> tab and press enter to highlight it.
> 4. Arrow down or do a  find command for your screen reader until you
> hear: Mask Phone Number. The full option reads "mask phone number in
> the participant list."
> 5. Toggle that to on. You'll know it worked if your screen reader says
> button pressed after doing this.
> 
> Just thought this might help hosts and participants.
> From David
> 
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