🧙‍♂️ Top 20 Zoom Tips & Tricks



In this step-by-step tutorial, learn the top 20 best tips and tricks in Zoom Video Conferencing. For example, create your own custom virtual background, have your video appear over PowerPoint slides, use video filters and effects, spotlight your mouse cursor, and many more.

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– Top new features in Zoom: https://youtu.be/WjwZTRve3Zc
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⌚ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Custom virtual background
1:41 PowerPoint as virtual background
2:58 Green screen for virtual background
4:19 Touch up appearance
4:51 Adjust for low light
5:31 Video filters & studio effects
6:36 Enable original sound from microphone
8:08 Transcribe meeting using otter.ai
9:41 Press and hold space bar to unmute
10:13 Shortcut keys
11:11 Share phone screen
12:24 Share multiple windows
13:16 Whiteboard
13:50 Spotlight mouse cursor
14:16 Annotation tools
14:56 Waiting room
15:53 Breakout rooms
16:53 Nonverbal feedback
17:35 Calendar integration with Gmail
18:20 End-to-end encryption

📃 Watch related playlists and videos
– Playlist with all my Zoom videos with quick tips & tricks: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlKpQrBME6xKZdDDCfXLmyBCVBRXvKhFt

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This Post Has 38 Comments

  1. Tyson Larson

    The most important thing for me with zoom is audio. How do I get good audio?

  2. Dan Keepa

    outstanding update on the zoom tools thank you

  3. Great tutorial Kevin and thank you. But l was hoping for tutorial on playing background music while doing a Zoom call

  4. I got excited there for a minute. But none of the virtual background options seem to be available in the Android app. And when I use the browser version, I get the backdrops, but my image is just inside a circular avatar. Kind of lame, that.

  5. Draffter

    Are your directions strictly for the host? What options do attendees have?

  6. Nicholas Krall

    The real challenge is that Zoom features differ wildly from app to browser-extension to mobile-app t0 mobile-growser to ios to android tp windows to chromeOS and whether you are logged into your account and the level you are paying for. Between my work, my home-studio band, my church music and my Toastmasters and ChamberOfCommerce activities, I use a Samsung Note9, a Dell laptop, a Samsung tablet, a Lenovo tabletand a Dell Chromebook. Every single one of them behaves differently. The same features are accessed differently and many tools are available on different devices and many are missing. I haven't figured out if any one option actually has all the tools.

  7. Asha Erler

    I am sorry if this has already been asked. When sharing w/ slides as your background, does it need to be power point or can it be google slides? Also, if it is not in the cloud does it need to be saved to computer. I usually do all my stuff online and the option didn't seem to work for me.

  8. ma rini

    Thank you for the tutorial kevin, but i like to ask, if the host has record the zoom meeting, can I record the zoom meeting too ?

  9. Chuck F

    One of the best YouTube presentations ever !!!

  10. James Williams

    Wow wow wow You're going way too fast for me I'm gonna find somebody else Or maybe I could put you out a slower pace I don't know Maybe it's too early in the morning for me6:00 AM I'm going back to bed Goodbye for find somebody else it's Little slower

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  12. Whaooo
    Pls how can one add interpretation of words as the speaker speaks during zoom meeting? Thank you

  13. Nikki Sinclair

    Super helpful – I'm prepping for my first online Zoom workshop and this has given me some awesome tips. Favourite is using PowerPoint as a background. Thanks SO much Kevin!😀

  14. nobuko sato

    Thank you for your video! Simultaneous interpretation is set up, and the co-host (English selected) and host (Japanese selected) recorded. However, the host (in Japanese) did not record anything. Can you tell me what the cause is?

  15. Elaine Francel

    Kevin, are you able to have punctuation added to the closed captioning on you videos. I want to use your videos but cannot unless they meet this accessibility standard. Thank you!

  16. Ruth J. Morrison

    Kevin, you knocked the ball out of the park with this video. Keep up the great work.

  17. Hello World

    Sad. My Zoom says Video background is not supported in my device? Windows 10 Pro, 8GB.

  18. Carol Helm

    My pro accounts keeps going out after 40 minutes and I want it to stay on. Which feature is this?

  19. Lydia Abell

    The mute by using the space bar does not work on my Mac.

  20. you2tooyou2too

    Most of these 'features' have sometimes serious complications, that if you don't happen to avoid, can make operations more difficult, such as:
    Background: There are 3 sets of settings that must be set correctly for it to work, and limits on image size, but no error indications (just silent fail).
    'space-bar mic (PTT)" will not work if your cursor focus is not on your own image.
    … have fun.

  21. Hi Kevin. There are obviously restrictions on what you can do with zoom backgrounds. I have a newish laptop= no problem, but my wife's older PC won't let her use a blurred background, for example. Any workarounds? Also would help if they had a "dummy run" type process for zoom where we could practise until getting it right.

  22. Ken Ang WK

    Great tutorial! I especially love the spacebar to unmute temporarily. Will use that more often! 😁

  23. Phyllis Galloway

    I have a photo as a background and put on the green Screen but it pixelated the whole thing. What I really want to do is make myself smaller on the screen.

  24. Phyllis Galloway

    I would like to know how to make myself look smaller down in a corner as you did in the PPT only during regular use. I'm large on the page with my chosen picture behind. Thank you for all the wonderful Tip & Tricks some I knew allot and many I did not.

  25. Sudha Nair

    really good. wish i had seen this much earlier.

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