Zoom
With the church campus closed, we are using Zoom to stay connected.
With the church campus closed, we are using Zoom to stay connected.
Weekly Zoom Connections
by Beth Miller
Join us on Zoom for any or all of these casual gatherings. In addition to seeing one another and nurturing our sense of connection, please think about these two questions: What has been your biggest challenge with sheltering in place? Have there been any unexpected gifts this situation has given you?
Mondays, 2:00-3:00 p.m. TEA TIME
Wednesdays, 9:00-10:00 a.m. COFFEE KLATCH
Fridays, 5:00-6:00 p.m. HAPPY HOUR
No signup necessary. You will receive an email invitation the day before to remind you. Contact Beth Miller (bmiller@uusarasota.org 617-893-1949) if you did not receive an invitation.
New to Zoom? Just click on the link in your invitation. If you get stuck, see below for help.
by Beth Miller
Join us on Zoom for any or all of these casual gatherings. In addition to seeing one another and nurturing our sense of connection, please think about these two questions: What has been your biggest challenge with sheltering in place? Have there been any unexpected gifts this situation has given you?
Mondays, 2:00-3:00 p.m. TEA TIME
Wednesdays, 9:00-10:00 a.m. COFFEE KLATCH
Fridays, 5:00-6:00 p.m. HAPPY HOUR
No signup necessary. You will receive an email invitation the day before to remind you. Contact Beth Miller (bmiller@uusarasota.org 617-893-1949) if you did not receive an invitation.
New to Zoom? Just click on the link in your invitation. If you get stuck, see below for help.
We want to help you connect with Zoom
from Dale Anderson, church President:
Welcome to a World of Zoom!
Around the world, businesses, social groups and families are turning to online teleconferencing to maintain business operations and combat social isolation. Everyone is talking about Zoom. NBA athletes are working out at home under supervision of their trainers via Zoom. In Seattle, nurse practitioners are providing well-care visits for children using the online service.
Zoom’s online video conferencing system lets people speak and visualize each other using desktop computers, laptops, tablets (iPads) and mobile phones. Similar videoconferencing systems include Cisco’s Webex, GoToMeetings, and Microsoft Teams. Here at UUCS, we have chosen Zoom to help keep us connected.
The Church used Zoom to conduct its recent Board of Trustees meeting. All future church business meetings will be scheduled on Zoom. Groups considering Zoom include the Men’s Group, Books Club, and Caring Committee. Our Lead Associate Minister, Beth Miller, is hosting general “get-togethers” for all church members and friends on Zoom (see article in our weekly Contact newsletter. Call the office if you want to be put on the mailing list.)
To encourage the use of teleconferencing, UUCS will reimburse any church member designated to host their group the $14.99 per month fee for setting up a Zoom Pro Plan account. The Pro Plan allows online meetings that extend beyond the 40-minute limit of the Free Plan.
If you are interested in becoming a UUCS Zoom host for your committee or group, please sign up by sending an email request to Roberta Druif. Consultants to help you get started with Zoom include Rev Beth Miller, Karen Bush and me. Zoom is easy to use.
Members are reporting that zoom is easy and fun to use. If your computer does not have a camera, you can still join a zoom group using your microphone and speakers (no picture). If you have a smart phone, you already have a camera, microphone and speakers.
So, let’s all get online and ZOOM ON! Read more at zoom.us New Tools for Zoom Hosts...
from Dale Anderson, church President:
Welcome to a World of Zoom!
Around the world, businesses, social groups and families are turning to online teleconferencing to maintain business operations and combat social isolation. Everyone is talking about Zoom. NBA athletes are working out at home under supervision of their trainers via Zoom. In Seattle, nurse practitioners are providing well-care visits for children using the online service.
Zoom’s online video conferencing system lets people speak and visualize each other using desktop computers, laptops, tablets (iPads) and mobile phones. Similar videoconferencing systems include Cisco’s Webex, GoToMeetings, and Microsoft Teams. Here at UUCS, we have chosen Zoom to help keep us connected.
The Church used Zoom to conduct its recent Board of Trustees meeting. All future church business meetings will be scheduled on Zoom. Groups considering Zoom include the Men’s Group, Books Club, and Caring Committee. Our Lead Associate Minister, Beth Miller, is hosting general “get-togethers” for all church members and friends on Zoom (see article in our weekly Contact newsletter. Call the office if you want to be put on the mailing list.)
To encourage the use of teleconferencing, UUCS will reimburse any church member designated to host their group the $14.99 per month fee for setting up a Zoom Pro Plan account. The Pro Plan allows online meetings that extend beyond the 40-minute limit of the Free Plan.
If you are interested in becoming a UUCS Zoom host for your committee or group, please sign up by sending an email request to Roberta Druif. Consultants to help you get started with Zoom include Rev Beth Miller, Karen Bush and me. Zoom is easy to use.
Members are reporting that zoom is easy and fun to use. If your computer does not have a camera, you can still join a zoom group using your microphone and speakers (no picture). If you have a smart phone, you already have a camera, microphone and speakers.
So, let’s all get online and ZOOM ON! Read more at zoom.us New Tools for Zoom Hosts...
Overview of Recent Updates to Zoom
Dear Valued Customer,
As Eric shared last week, our commitment to strengthening and improving Zoom is our number one priority. We wanted to reach out with a quick overview of our latest release, and highlight the number of new enhancements created specifically for ensuring the security and privacy of our product. For more information on these changes, please reference our Release Notes.
Security Toolbar Icon for Hosts
The meeting host will now have a Security option in their meeting controls, which exposes all of Zoom’s existing in-meeting security controls in one place. This includes locking the meeting, enabling Waiting Room, and more. Users can also now enable Waiting Room in a meeting, even if the feature was not turned on before the start of the meeting. For more information, please visit this recently published Blog.
Invite Button on Meeting Client Toolbar
The button to invite others to join your Zoom meeting is now available at the bottom of the Participants panel.
Meeting ID No Longer Displayed
The meeting ID will no longer be displayed in the title bar of the Zoom meeting window. The meeting ID can be found by clicking on Participants, then Invite or by clicking on the info icon at the top left of the client window.
Remove Attendee Attention Tracking Feature
Zoom has removed the attendee attention tracker feature as part of our commitment to the security and privacy of our customers. For more background on this change and how we are pivoting during these unprecedented times, please see a note from our CEO, Eric S. Yuan.
Removal of the Facebook SDK in our iOS client
We have reconfigured the feature so that users will still be able to log in with Facebook via their browser.
File Transfers
The option to do third-party file transfers in Meeting and Chat was temporarily disabled. Local file transfer is available with our latest release. Third-party file transfers and clickable URLs in meeting chat will be added back in an upcoming release.
New Join Flow for the Web client
By default, users will now need to sign in to their Zoom account or create a Zoom account when joining a meeting or webinar with the Web client. This can be disabled by the Admin or the User from their settings page.
Join Before Host Emails Disabled
Notifications sent to the host via email when participants are waiting for the host to join the meeting have been disabled.
Setting to Allow Participants to Rename Themselves
Account admins and hosts can now disable the ability for participants to rename themselves in any meeting. This setting is available at the account, group, and user level in the Web portal.
Language for Directory and Company Directory
Domain contacts: The language in your Company directory and Directory has changed. ‘Directory’ is now referred to as ‘Contacts’, ‘My Groups’ has changed to ‘My Contacts’, and ‘Company Directory’ is now listed as ‘All Contacts’ in version 4.6.10.
Domain Contacts Visibility
For free Basic and single licensed Pro accounts with unmanaged domains, contacts in the same domain will no longer be visible. We’ve also removed the option to auto-populate your Contacts list with users from the same domain. If you would like to keep those contacts, you can add them as External Contacts.
Please be sure to update to our latest release to take advantage of these new features. We also highly encourage you to register for our webinar to get an overview of this latest release, and subscribe to our Blog for more information and resources in the days to come.
Best,
Team Zoom
April 9, 2020
Dear Valued Customer,
As Eric shared last week, our commitment to strengthening and improving Zoom is our number one priority. We wanted to reach out with a quick overview of our latest release, and highlight the number of new enhancements created specifically for ensuring the security and privacy of our product. For more information on these changes, please reference our Release Notes.
Security Toolbar Icon for Hosts
The meeting host will now have a Security option in their meeting controls, which exposes all of Zoom’s existing in-meeting security controls in one place. This includes locking the meeting, enabling Waiting Room, and more. Users can also now enable Waiting Room in a meeting, even if the feature was not turned on before the start of the meeting. For more information, please visit this recently published Blog.
Invite Button on Meeting Client Toolbar
The button to invite others to join your Zoom meeting is now available at the bottom of the Participants panel.
Meeting ID No Longer Displayed
The meeting ID will no longer be displayed in the title bar of the Zoom meeting window. The meeting ID can be found by clicking on Participants, then Invite or by clicking on the info icon at the top left of the client window.
Remove Attendee Attention Tracking Feature
Zoom has removed the attendee attention tracker feature as part of our commitment to the security and privacy of our customers. For more background on this change and how we are pivoting during these unprecedented times, please see a note from our CEO, Eric S. Yuan.
Removal of the Facebook SDK in our iOS client
We have reconfigured the feature so that users will still be able to log in with Facebook via their browser.
File Transfers
The option to do third-party file transfers in Meeting and Chat was temporarily disabled. Local file transfer is available with our latest release. Third-party file transfers and clickable URLs in meeting chat will be added back in an upcoming release.
New Join Flow for the Web client
By default, users will now need to sign in to their Zoom account or create a Zoom account when joining a meeting or webinar with the Web client. This can be disabled by the Admin or the User from their settings page.
Join Before Host Emails Disabled
Notifications sent to the host via email when participants are waiting for the host to join the meeting have been disabled.
Setting to Allow Participants to Rename Themselves
Account admins and hosts can now disable the ability for participants to rename themselves in any meeting. This setting is available at the account, group, and user level in the Web portal.
Language for Directory and Company Directory
Domain contacts: The language in your Company directory and Directory has changed. ‘Directory’ is now referred to as ‘Contacts’, ‘My Groups’ has changed to ‘My Contacts’, and ‘Company Directory’ is now listed as ‘All Contacts’ in version 4.6.10.
Domain Contacts Visibility
For free Basic and single licensed Pro accounts with unmanaged domains, contacts in the same domain will no longer be visible. We’ve also removed the option to auto-populate your Contacts list with users from the same domain. If you would like to keep those contacts, you can add them as External Contacts.
Please be sure to update to our latest release to take advantage of these new features. We also highly encourage you to register for our webinar to get an overview of this latest release, and subscribe to our Blog for more information and resources in the days to come.
Best,
Team Zoom
April 9, 2020