Corporate Meeting Help
Side-by-side mode for screen sharing in zoom App
The option to view the shared screen side-by-side with either the Speaker view or Gallery view is available for meeting and webinar participants who are viewing a shared screen. Additionally, the location of the separator between the shared screen and video can be adjusted to change the relative size of each side.
The webinar host can also specify whether attendees can see the shared screen in side-by-side mode.
This article covers:
Viewing a shared screen in Side-by-side mode
Automatically entering side-by-side mode, prerequisites.
- Version 4.1.8826.0925 or later of the Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux
- Note: If dual-monitors are enabled, side-by-side mode does not work.
- Join or start a meeting.
- You can choose Side-by-side mode when viewing a shared screen by clicking on View Options.
- The shared screen will appear on the left and the speaker will appear on the right.
- You’ll see a grey line separating the participants’ video and the shared screen when you hover the pointer over the boundary.
- To adjust each view’s size, you can click and drag the separator.
- You can choose from Side-by-side: Speaker View or Side-by-side: Gallery View in the top-right corner, which determines how many videos appear on the right side.
- View Options > Uncheck Side-by-side mode to exit Side-by-side Mode.
- Log in to the Zoom desktop client.
- Then click Settings under your profile picture.
- Select Share Screen .
- Tick the box next to Side-by-Side Mode. When a participant starts sharing their screen, Zoom will automatically enter side-by-side mode.
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The Ultimate Guide to Giving Virtual Presentations on Zoom
Part 1: an introduction to giving virtual presentations on zoom.
PART I Introduction 1 – Cool Zoom Features 2 – Virtual Presentation Do’s 3 – Virtual Presentation Don’ts PART II 4 – Presentation Purpose 5 – Structure & Flow 6 – Slide Design PART III 7 – Connect with the audience 8 – Audience Participation 9 – Sharing Content PART IV 10 – Video & Audio Recordings 11 – Post-production 12 – Your Phone as a Webcam PART V 13 – When Things Go Wrong 14 – How to Ground Yourself PART VI 15 – Advanced Techniques 16 – Zoom Webinars vs Meetings 17 – 23 Essential Settings
There are three things I hate about Zoom…
#1 the super awkward must-click-two-buttons-to-leave-the-meeting debacle.
You say goodbye, search the bottom-right corner of the screen for the red button, click the red button, continue to stare awkwardly at the corner of the screen because the call is still open and you need to click a second red button.
Never fear, this can be turned off. In General Preferences simply uncheck the “Ask me to confirm when I leave a meeting” setting and poof! One-click exits. You’re welcome.
#2 Inviting someone and never knowing what the difference is between these two options: “Copy invite link” and “Copy invitation”.
I can sense you nodding along with me.
Just remember that it’s “invite link” you want 99% of the time vs “invitation”, and you can set an option that copies the link to your clipboard as soon as you start a meeting.
#3 The dropdown to change video settings is part of the “Stop Video” button. What the actual?!
Are you trying to make me screw up my presentation?
I also love Zoom.
Why? Because it works.
A year into our forced isolation, Zoom fatigue has set in. We’re avoiding calls and talking about concepts like Zoom holidays, just to get a break.
But the answer isn’t fewer Zoom calls, it’s better Zoom calls. Almost every Zoom presentation is boring, ugly, terribly structured, poorly executed, and designed to make you fall asleep.
In this guide I’ll show you
- How to create beautiful slides that communicate with clarity and class
- Unknown and awesome features of Zoom that you can use to your advantage
- How to overcome your nerves and survive technical problems
- And how to look like a total pro every time you give a presentation—or run a meeting—on the platform we all love to hate.
Note: for the sake of brevity, unless I’m talking about Zoom-specific functionality, these tips are applicable to any platform that offers meeting and presentation software such as GotoMeeting, Google Meet, Webinar Jam etc.
There are instructional videos throughout the guide to demonstrate the best parts in more depth. You can binge watch the videos on the “Presenting on Zoom” video channel here , or read on for the word and pictures.
If you want to stand out from your peers it’s good to understand the full power of the platform and know the features most people don’t know about.
#1 Set up your own configurable ‘personal meeting room’
It can be really distracting to hear a bunch of people talking over one another when you kick off a meeting. A good solution is to use what’s called a Personal Meeting ID (PID) which gives you control of the Zoom environment right from the start.
Features of your PID include:
- Using the same invite ID and URL whenever you start a meeting, bypassing the need to repeatedly check the settings. Note: because it’s a permanent URL,you should uncheck the “Allow participants to join anytime” setting to prevent randoms dropping in unannounced.
- Placing participants into a “waiting room” which lets them in when you are ready to begin– either individually or all at once.
- Automatically recording your meetings on your computer. Having a video of your presentation is always a good idea so you can re-use your content.
#2 Press the ‘spacebar to temporarily un-mute yourself’
You can help to ensure a quality audio recording by placing everyone on mute by default. And while this feature is more appropriate for meetings vs. presentations, it’s a great thing to know about – and to tell your audience about. It’s easy to use, hold down the spacebar to un-mute yourself and let it go to turn your audio off again. It prevents people from forgetting to re-mute when they walk off to do something else forcing you to listen to their snoring dog or screaming baby.
Even if it doesn’t get used during your presentation (unless it’s a workshop you won’t want people to randomly chime in), many of your audience will thank you for learning this tip.
Note: You may need to enable it in your Zoom Preferences.
#3 Record ‘separate audio files’ for each speaker, host, or panelist in the presentation
If you have a host or a co-presenter there will be content in the session that’s not yours. Having separate audio recordings lets you use only the audio that was from your part of the presentation.
You can enable this in Preferences > Recording.
#4 Enable the ‘non-verbal feedback’ feature to allow audience interactions
Cool zoom feature #4 – enable non-verbal feedback.
To make your presentations interactive you can enable the non-verbal feedback feature. This allows participants to express reactions to your presentation.
This is not to be confused with ‘meeting reaction emojis’ which are temporary reactions that disappear after 5 seconds. To be honest, it’s hard not to be confused when there are two sets of interactions with different names.
Non-verbal feedback is for direct feedback to the speaker or host that others can agree with by clicking the same icon. The result is that the speaker can see how many people are expressing the feedback.
The options for non-verbal feedback are shown in the image below:
An example of how this would be used in a presentation is to ask the speaker to speed up or slow down. This might seem like a weird thing to be told during your talk, and if it’s just one person asking you’d most likely ignore it. But if 50 people are saying to slow down, that’s a pretty good indication that your current presentation style isn’t working for them.
It provides a pretty amazing insight – something I wish I’d had that feedback during an on-stage talk.
You can also use it to ask binary questions to the audience that they can respond yes or no to – a great way to segment the audience so you can tailor your content based on their responses.
Combine this feature with a QTINTA audience participation question for a really engaging experience. You’ll have to watch the video to know what QTINTA means.
#5 Use the Zoom ‘beauty mode’ to soften your appearance
Zoom includes a “Touch up my appearance” filter in the “Preferences > Video” settings, which gives your skin a softer appearance. There’s a slider that lets you control how much it applies the effect. It can look weird if you crank it too much, but having just a little can really help – especially if you’re looking a big bedraggled.
Settings are maintained when you quit so you can expect to look the same way every time.
#6 Use Zoom ‘video filters’ to add a cinematic high-contrast appearance
We’re all familiar with Zoom backgrounds, but a more impressive feature in my mind are the video filters. You can access them via the “Stop Video” dropdown arrow. Yes, there are some silly ones which can be funny when in a meeting, but for presenting stick to the non-silly ones. They can help improve the quality of your on-camera look. I particularly like the first option “Boost” which kicks your contrast up a notch removing any bland washed out lighting, it also removed some warmer tones which I like as it reduces the redness I often have in my skin.
You can see that it increases the contrast but also cuts down on the redness in my face.
Unlike the “Touch up my appearance” feature, your video filter settings are not maintained between sessions, which is a frustrating extra step each time if you found a setting you like.
#7 Encourage attendees to use ‘side-by-side mode’ to view you and your slides
This can be a good setting if you want to make your talk feel more personal. It shows your camera video beside your slides, and viewers can resize the videos as they see fit.
It can be a good idea to point this out as not everyone will know.
E.g. “You should be viewing this presentation in side by side mode so you see me and the slides. If you want to make the slides bigger (or smaller) you can resize them by dragging the slider between my video and the slides.”
#8 Use Zoom ‘annotations’ to mark up your slides live, or a ‘whiteboard’ for a blank canvas
A really cool feature of Zoom is Annotations. This lets you write or draw on top of the screen you are sharing. Once the feature is activated , you can access it from the menu at the top when you are sharing your screen.
This is really helpful when you have a complex slide and you want to focus people’s attention on different areas of the screen as you talk. When presenting live on a stage you can gesture towards a particular area, but it’s not as easy in a virtual presentation which is why it’s handy.
There is also a Whiteboard feature that gives you, well, a whiteboard. This could be useful if you find that you need to dig into a point you’re making in a more detailed way or discover during your talk that you need a different way to explain it.
You might want to take a quick screenshot when you’re done if you happened to get some interesting ideas marked up.
Rock open a whiteboard and sketch a diagram. Having a tablet and pen would be very helpful for this, versus trying to draw with a mouse. It might be wise to use the non-verbal feedback feature to get folks to say “Yes” to a “Let me know if you’re ready to move on” question.
Note, this is a screen sharing feature, so in order to get to the whiteboard, you need to stop sharing your screen, then share once more but choose Whiteboard as the option. Then you’ll have to stop sharing and share your slides again. Make sure you’ve practiced this if you think you’ll be using it.
#9 Use ‘closed captions’ to increase the accessibility of your virtual presentation and video recording
Zoom has transcription features that let you add closed captions to your session. You can do it manually for free, but that means someone will have to type them live, which is a pretty specific skill to have, and requires someone to do it for you.
If you have a paid Zoom account (roughly $20/month) live transcriptions are included. An alternative is to integrate with a platform like Otter.ai, to add closed captions in real time. You can also use Otter for transcribing any other audio or video files you have which makes it a much better value.
There are several reasons why closed captions are a good thing to do.
- No headphones: if an attendee doesn’t have or forgot their headphones and they’re in an environment where they can’t have the volume on, closed captions are a life saver that could be the difference between them staying or leaving.
- Accessibility: Captions allow meetings to be accessible to all. For the deaf, hard of hearing, or non-native speakers, they are an absolute necessity to understand what’s going on.
- Attention and recall: closed captioning can increase the amount of your content that an attendee comprehends and remembers. This is because they are getting it using two senses, and you have to focus more intently when you are reading.
You can check out Otter here to set up live captions.
#10 Use Zoom ‘breakout rooms’ to split workshop participants into groups
Without question, one of the most popular Zoom features is Breakout Rooms. They are exactly as they sound, allowing you to break out attendees into separate rooms. This could be for hosting a multi-track event where there is a speaker in each breakout room, or more commonly it is to allow groups to work together away from the “Main Room” and then come back in to rejoin you as the speaker.
This is a wonderful feature if you are running workshops that require groups to work through some of your worksheets or tasks for example.
There’s a good demo of how to use Zoom breakout rooms here.
#11 Use a Zoom ‘waiting room’ to hold attendees before you let them in at the same time
Nobody shows up at the same time to a presentation, and you don’t always want to start until an acceptable threshold of attendees have arrived. Particularly if the beginning of your talk is fundamental to your big idea.
The waiting room is basically a holding area where attendees are listed as they show up. They get to see a simple welcome screen (annoyingly simple really – I’d much prefer to have the options to have a fully custom slide in there), and you can admit them one by one, or all at once, when you are ready to begin.
It also allows you to block people from entering, although for the most part there’s not much reason to do this when you are presenting to a large audience. Useful if someone becomes disruptive for any reason.
Caution: it’s very easy to forget about the waiting room and have people sitting around unable to get in after you’ve started. I recommend assigning this task to your co-host.
Cool Zoom Feature to Avoid – ‘Present with your PowerPoint or Keynote slides as a virtual background’.
This is an interesting feature that’s worth discussing both for why it’s cool and why it’s uncool.
What it does
Instead of a regular screen share, it takes your slide deck and sets it as the background much like any other Zoom background. As such it places a ‘mini you’ floating on top of the slides in cutout mode which is kinda fun. Kinda.
To access the feature (beta at time of writing) click the “Advanced” tab in the “Share Screen” popup, and select “Slides as Virtual Background”.
This is what it looks like from the attendee’s perspective. And yes, you appear twice on the screen. Once on top of your slides, and again beside them. Silly.
Note: you must download a local copy of your slide deck to your computer as it doesn’t connect to cloud-based slides.
If you have audio and video in your slides, checking the “Share Sound” option at the bottom-left of the share popup should make that transmit to the audience. However, it doesn’t. In fact I couldn’t get any video or audio to play at all.
There’s also a second “Split Video from Slides” option which kinda defeats the purpose. As you can see below, you are back with your regular background in a separate window, and you are only on the screen once.
With the split setting in place, it would be a fair to wonder why you’d use this feature as it looks just the same as the regular view.
There are however, a few key differences.
The major difference is that you don’t need to have your slides in fullscreen mode on your computer. In the screenshot below you’ll see that I’m looking at a Zoom window with my slides inside it. I can now move through my slides while having other windows open such as the chat and participant windows. This is actually pretty great as the audience doesn’t see your layout, they see what they would normally see.
A nice side effect of this setting is the audience won’t see the awkward moment at the start of your talk where your whole screen is visible until you start the slides.
Looking at the main window, you can clean up the view a bit by having attendee video off by un-checking “More > Allow Participants to Start Video” in the Participants panel, and then selecting “Hide non-video participants” from the “…” menu on one of the participant video boxes.
You can take it a step further if you select “Hide self view” from the … on your video thumbnail. This will give you a view of just your slides. As much as the layout annoys me (I’d rather pop the self view out to the side with the chat), it can be important to see yourself to make sure you’re not moving out of frame – particularly if you are speaking standing up.
However, at this point in the beta it’s just not usable enough to be a serious and professional solution because of a few technical failings:
- It’s buggy like most beta features are
- It doesn’t show any animations or slide transitions
- If you are recording the screen, the merge view while fun, is a little unprofessional looking
- Audio and video didn’t work at all for me, despite there being a setting to allow slide audio to work. I think this might be because the videos didn’t play.
- When you start the share it has to process the slides before it starts which causes a delay if you aren’t expecting it.
Overall, it’s a feature with some exciting elements, although to be perfectly honest, the good aspects are nothing to do with the feature itself, but are side effects. I’d prefer to see a new feature that allows you to avoid presenting in fullscreen to allow a much greater degree of presenter screen setup.
The chapter title says it all. Do these things and your virtual presentations will be better. If you don’t, your presentation won’t be better than the last one you did, missing an important opportunity grow your skills as a virtual presenter.
Seriously. Do these things.
#1 Test your slides from the ‘attendee perspective’ using another laptop or tablet
Your slides might look amazing on your retina laptop or 5K monitor, but not all screens are alike, and your super-detailed tiny-text “revolutionary new marketing method” process diagram might look more like a dot-matrix printout to someone with a lesser screen.
Viewing your slides on a smaller or alternative screen isn’t enough. You also need to view them on Zoom on that screen, because virtual presentation software tends to change things you wouldn’t expect.
The golden rule of presentation QA is to run through every slide on the platform you’re going to be delivering on (Zoom, GotoWebinar, etc.) watching out for the things below:
- Any virtual presentation platform will add small visual artifacts to the video stream—they’re imperfect degenerative medium where some quality will be lost in transmission. As a result, your slides will never be quite as sharp as directly viewing your slides.
- If you have audio in your slides, check that the audio levels are balanced and not too loud or quiet. Remember to also test it with headphones on as that’s a common listening scenario for your audience.
- If you have video in your slides it may not come across well when presenting virtually. There’s usually some lag or choppiness that makes it skip frames. This can make the audio look out of sync.
- If you have multiple slides with audio, set them at the exact same level so people don’t get deafened. A common problem in that scenario is that the attendees will turn down their audio if you blast them, and then the next time you have audio it’s too quiet to hear properly. Your presentation software will have a setting for the audio or video volume. The best way to make sure they are the same is to move your slides to be one after the other (you can reorder them afterwards), then step through them to gauge the balance.
- If you have complex animations or transitions, they may render more slowly or less smoothly when piped through Zoom and a wifi connection. If they don’t work the way you want them to, consider simplifying them (fewer animations) or removing them altogether – replacing them with static slides. You can still use a technique like the Progressive Reveal to create a pseudo animation effect.
To prevent an audio feedback loop when testing your audio and video slides, have your partner/friend/colleague be on the viewer/attendee side in another room.
Whatever your specific case is, there’s a good chance that on the viewer’s side it’s not as perfect. So double, triple, and quadruple check.
I guess you should also single check. Why does nobody say that?
“You should single check your work to make sure it’s awesome.”
The best way to QA is to record some video of it from the viewer’s perspective. Have your QA buddy record their screen (with audio). If you don’t have anyone to help you, just set up your extra laptop (hopefully you have one somewhere) in another room and record the screen from there. If you’re using a Mac, Quicktime is an easy way to get a recording. On a PC, you can use PowerPoint to do a screen recording (more on that later), or find some free screen recording software for a test.
If you do have a helper, you can also reverse roles where they present and you observe on their machine. This will give you the truest sense of what might need to be fixed. It’ll no doubt be quite hilarious to watch, unless they turn out to be better at it than you.
#2 Remove all hashtags from your slides
My typical advice regarding hashtags is to make sure you update them to use the current event’s hashtag if you’ve used this slide deck before. If you don’t it looks awful to the audience and makes them feel like you didn’t put in the effort to make a presentation just for them.
However, the main goal of this entire guide —primarily covered in chapters 10 and 11— is to ensure you create a professional-grade recording of your virtual presentation that you can repurpose over and over for multiple virtual events.
If you leave event hashtags in your slides they will be forever embedded in your recording, rendering it useless for re-use. And trust me, once you’ve created a high-resolution awesomely edited recording of your talk, you will feel amazing about it.
It may feel counterintuitive, but you should delete all the hashtags from your slides.
If the event mentions it and asks you why or asks you to include them, just politely let them know your rationale. I’ve found that many virtual events have interactive chat in the interface they use which tends to dilute the number of people hanging out on a Twitter hashtag anyway.
#3 Have a wired Internet connection
If attendees have a poor connection they can always leave and download the video and slides later on.
But the presenter is the one person who absolutely must have a great Internet connection, and the best way to do that is to have directly wired Ethernet.
A side benefit of this is that it will help you end the endless debate over who’s connection is causing the problem. I’m sure you’ve been in a meeting where someone suggests your Internet is slow, and you say yours is fine, and they say that theirs has been working brilliantly all week.
Just say “Yeah, but I have a hardwired Ethernet connection.” End of conversation.
If you don’t have a wired connection, work on getting one set up, and in the meantime tell your eager tech wannabe roommates NOT to reset the ******* wifi while you’re presenting.
#4 Have a backup audio input device
“Is this mic on? Can you hear me at the back?”
Sometimes your mic will stop working, and it’s one of the most uncomfortable panic-ridden things that can happen to a speaker (see When Things Go Wrong ). It could be a dead battery issue, or your headphone cable could be old and the internal wiring failed.
Whatever the cause, you need to have a way to deal with the problem.
If you are using a posh external mic that stops working, ditching it for the internal microphone of your laptop will likely degrade the audio quality significantly, but it’s better than nothing.
In a later chapter I do a deep dive comparison video about microphone options for virtual presenting .
Probably the simplest backup is another set of headphones. The classic Apple headphones are only $25 now. Make sure you get the ones with the 3.5mm jack, and not the lightning cable, (especially if you’re not an Apple person) as that’s only useful for your iPhone. And if you aren’t an Apple person, there are a million other options on Amazon.
However, be warned that these headphones are rife with audio problems such as noisy cables (you’ll need to sit still which sucks), and they should only be used on Zoom. When using them with any other audio recording software they have a horrific background hiss that destroys your audio, but Zoom’s noise removal feature (on by default) actually does a fantastic job of removing it, making them a viable last minute solution. Hopefully, you’ll never need to use them.
#5 Have a slide dedicated to encouraging non-verbal feedback
The non-verbal feedback feature of Zoom is a great way to make your talk more dynamic. But you don’t want to try and explain it in the middle of your talk as it’ll break the flow and screw up the fluidity of your recording.
Instead, consider which aspects of the feature you want to use, and have a slide at the start of your presentation (slide 2 for example) that focuses on this. You can quickly walk people through how it works, and tell them how you’ll be using it throughout.
#6 Have everyone muted by default
It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway. You don’t want attendees, whether it’s 5 or 500, to be chatting before or during your presentation. So this one is simple. Make sure you mute everyone. If you’re using your Personal Meeting ID you might have this already set up.
You can mute everyone in the Participants sidebar, or as a global default setting in the web portal administration settings “Settings > Schedule Meeting > Mute all participants when they join a meeting”.
#7 Wear confidence clothes
Just because you can present in your PJs it doesn’t mean you should present in your PJs. Treat it like an on-stage talk and get ready in your mojo outfit. You’ll gain confidence and look more professional.
Something I like to do when I’m on the road presenting, is lay out my clothes the night before. It helps me get in the right mindset and also saves time the next day when you might be stressing out.
#8 Close all of your other software to prevent your machine slowing down
Take a look at your computer right now and count A) how many different apps are running, and B) how many tabs you have open in your browser.
Here’s a screenshot of mine, for reference.
Tabs open in Chrome? 39. Apps open? 20
You need to be concerned about two things, the amount of memory and processing power being hogged by all the apps you have open, and the number of ways you might receive a notification during your talk.
For PCs running Windows 10, there’s a built-in function to silence notifications when presenting . But if you’re a Mac user the settings for this are horrendous (slightly better in Big Sur). Fortunately there’s a free app called Muzzle that silences all of your notifications as soon as you share your screen.
#9 Have two pre-made slides ready for Q&A at the end of your virtual presentation
It’s common for your host to ask questions that the audience has submitted in the chat window (or the Q&A window for Zoom Webinars) at the end of your session. The best way to utilize this opportunity—if you’re still in control of the screen—is to have two slides prepared.
The first slide should simply have Q&A written on it, really big.
The second slide should be a promo slide with a special offer you have.
I like to leave up the Q&A slide until the questions start, then flip it to the promo slide so it can sit there for the next 5-10 minutes. It’s a great way to have it visible for a long period of time without actually having to be salesy in your presentation.
It’s fairly common that an event organizer will ask you if you have something to promote, but if they don’t, ask them if it’s okay that you use a slide at the end like this.
#10 Build a background set to make your virtual presentations look professional
If you spend a lot of time on Zoom, instead of using a Zoom background, start thinking about how you can built a bit of a set where you do your presentations. Not only will it look more professional, but it will fill you with confidence and make you feel like you’re in presentation mode when you’re there.
I’m fortunate to have a space for my office/studio, and I’ve seen and felt the difference a well-designed environment makes when I show up to work. It took me months to get it right, so don’t think you have to suddenly have something perfect. Just chip away at it over time, turning on your webcam every day and giving a little thought as to how you can make the space more special. Small shelves with plants or books can work great, and Pinterest is definitely your friend for this type of thing.
Many folks won’t have a dedicated workspace to claim as your “stage”, but I’m pretty sure your significant other won’t complain if you make your home that little bit nicer.
Speaking of “stages”, I actually built a stage in my studio—almost burning down the house in the process —but that’s a story for another time. Like I said, it took months to get to this stage. I keep saying stage.
#11 Reboot your computer the night before your virtual presentation
Restarting your computer can help speed it up a bit, especially if you haven’t done it in ages. Any little performance advantage you can get is valuable for a live presentation. It will help clear out any processes that are stuck or hogging the CPU.
However, it’s best not to do this right before your talk, as you risk it doing some weird software updates that take hours to complete.
#12 Do a test Zoom meeting to check your camera angles and lighting
As Springsteen said in Dancing in the Dark—”I check my look in the mirror, I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face.”—you should always check how you look on camera before the presentation starts. Adjust the angle of the camera for your most flattering look and the best view of your background, which of course is a well-decorated wall, and not a zoom background of a beach or mountaintop.
Make sure to turn on the lights you’ll be using to light your lovely face, wick away any sweat using blotting wipes, and apply some simple makeup to remove shiny reflections from your head. More details on those techniques in the lighting section .
Here’s the smart part, record your test meeting and play it back to make sure there are no weird things in the background, it’s often easier to analyze a recording as opposed to your webcam view.
#13 Double-check your audio for background noise
At the same time as your camera check, watch your test recording and listen very carefully for any noise in the background. You’ll be surprised at how oblivious you can be to background noise when you’re busy and/or nervous.
Sounds to watch out for:
- Laundry sounds: Depending on where your washer/dryer are it may not be an issue, but the low hum can travel far. Start a Zoom recording, making sure to use which ever audio (mic) input you plan on using, go turn on your washer or dryer or dishwasher, then come back and replay the recording to see if it’s discernible. Crank the volume to make sure. There is NOTHING worse than doing a badass presentation then finding out the recording is ruined by a persistent hum in the background, or the sound of someone’s hoody zip clattering round and round in the dryer.
- Tube lights: If you have any tube lights where you are recording, or even in a nearby room, turn them off. They can be soooo noisy. Then put in the effort to replace them with silent LED tube bulbs when you have time. It does require some rewiring, but it’s not that hard—I did it recently and I made sure to choose bulbs with the same colour temperature as the lights I’ll be using to light me up in the video–more on that in the A/V chapter .
- Ceiling fans: Another subtle and repetitive sound. Turn ’em off unless the resulting heat will make you sweat to the point of scaring the audience.
- Heating: Not all heating is noisy, but many houses in North America use what’s called forced air. It’s noisy. A low hum, yes, but it’s an audio killer.
- Noisy clothes: Your clothes can cause bad scratching sounds—even if you use a shotgun microphone that’s not attached to your clothes—which is an audio killer. What happens is that any loose clothing rubs against you when you gesticulate with your arms. Tighter clothes like a t-shirt are the solution to this. I go into more depth including a comparison video in What to do When Noisy Clothes Ruin Your Audio .
- Noisy shoes: if you’re wearing any kind of heels, they will cause irritating sounds if you shuffle your feet (while presenting standing up, which you should do). The simplest solution is to take them off and present in your socks (or bare feet).
- Analog watches: I’m kidding.
And make sure everyone in the house knows not to bother you while you’re presenting. If you are in a room with a door, hang a sign on it with the time of your event, and say not to disturb you until you take the sign off the door.
Guess what? Not every thing you can do as a virtual presenter is something you should be doing—I’m talking about you, speaker who likes to take a bathroom break while mic’d up, two minutes before the session starts.
Similarly, not every feature of Zoom has a positive impact on the audience or speaker experience. In this short and not-so-sweet chapter I’ll give you some tips about things to avoid so your talks go more smoothly.
#1 Don’t use a free Zoom account for your presentation
If you’re running the show yourself this is an important one. The free Zoom plan allows up to 100 attendees which is great, and more than enough for a small event, however there is also a 40-minute time limit, which would be very embarrassing if you didn’t know that and all of a sudden everyone gets kicked out of your virtual event.
#2 Try to avoid saying “Can you hear me?”
This is a classic intro statement that nervous presenters ask, but it makes you sound unprofessional. Instead, make a subtle change to how you position it, like this:
“Thanks {host name}, let’s get started, and let us know in the chat window if you have any issues hearing my audio.”
#3 Don’t use your laptop’s microphone if your webcam is sitting on an external monitor
When you do this, the laptop will be off to one side and your audio will be really quiet and sound like you’re in a different room.
#4 Don’t use stock photos in your slides
Just as you shouldn’t use a stock photo as the header background on your website, you shouldn’t use them in your presentations. To illustrate my point, it’s way too common for software companies to think it’s cool to use an overhead shot of a laptop and a coffee cup. It’s actually hilarious how prevalent it is. I recommend entering the URL of any image you’re considering using into tineye.com which will tell you how many times it’s been used.
If you absolutely have to use one, try hard to find one that’s not so widely used. Unsplash.com is a good resource for free photography that’s typically got less of a stock feel to it.
But all in all, the best way to avoid using stock photos is to develop an original content mindset (in chapter 6) .
#5 Don’t use a Zoom background. You heard me.
Zoom backgrounds can be fun in meetings, but when you’re presenting it can look unprofessional and can be really distracting. It can also make some of your head/hair disappear and speaking for myself, I need all the hair I can get.
#6 Don’t record the call without permission
This is a big no-no on certain types of call. For a presentation you can make a statement that it’s being recorded, as this is always helpful information for attendees to know (no permission needed) but if it’s a meeting with a client, customer, or coworker, you should be explicit that you are recording and why: “If it’s okay with you I’d like to record the call so I don’t miss any of the details.” This is important when you are a guest in an interview too. Asking for permission will add a level of trust and respect in the eyes of who you are asking – and in the very rare occasion that they say no, be graceful and say okay no worries. Then follow up with,”I may be taking notes throughout so bare with me if I’m scribbling”.
Also be aware, that if you are recording the session, everyone on the other side will see a blinking “recording” signal in the top-left corner, so there’s no creeping allowed.
To recap, remember these rules when it comes to recordings:
- Meetings: Ask for permission, and don’t record if your guest is uncomfortable with it.
- Presentations: Let people know that it’s being recorded and that you will be making it available after. Ideally after some post-production enhancements in chapter 11.
#7 Don’t be the host if you might leave early
This is a nightmare as the other participants are suddenly without a meeting and they might not know why. Then they have to re-coordinate to set up a new meeting, which is always a chore and often involves Slack or text messages or even worse, emails.
Intro Introduction to Virtual Presentations on Zoom
Chapter 1 18 Cool Zoom Features You Should Know About
Chapter 2 12 Things You Should Do in Your Zoom Presentation
Chapter 3 8 Things You Shouldn’t Do in Your Zoom Presentation
Chapter 4 Defining Your Presentation’s Purpose
Chapter 5 How to Define Your Talk’s Structure, Story, & Flow
Chapter 6 41 Slide Design Tips for Virtual Presentations
Chapter 7 6 Ways to Make Eye Contact With an Invisible Audience
Chapter 8 How to do Audience Participation in a Virtual Presentation
Chapter 9 How to Share Content during a Zoom Presentation
Chapter 10 How to Create a Stunning Video and Audio Recording
Chapter 11 Using Post-Production to Add Value to Your Zoom Recording
Chapter 12 How to Use Your Phone as a Beautiful Webcam
Chapter 13 What to Do When Things go Wrong in Your Presentation
Chapter 14 How to Ground Yourself and Get Ready to Present
Chapter 15 Advanced & Creative Zoom Presentation Techniques
Chapter 16 The Difference Between Zoom Meetings and Zoom Webinars
Chapter 17 23 Zoom Settings to Enable or Disable for a Smooth Presentation
Screen sharing a PowerPoint presentation
There are three methods you can use to screen share a PowerPoint presentation in a Zoom meeting. If you have dual monitors, you can share a slide show while viewing the presenter's notes on another monitor. If you have a single monitor, you can also start the slide show in a window so you have access to other meeting features while sharing your presentation.
If you have other participants presenting portions of the PowerPoint, you can give them slide control in Zoom, so that they can control the slideshow on their end, without needing to ask you to move the slides forward. Additionally, PowerPoint slides can be shared as a Virtual Background for a more immersive sharing experience.
This article covers:
Dual monitors with slide show and presenter's views
Single-monitor setup with slide show view in a window, single-monitor setup with slide show in full screen.
Follow these steps if you are using multiple monitors and want to present your PowerPoint in one monitor, while viewing the presenter's notes in another monitor.
- Open the PowerPoint file you want to present.
- Start or join a Zoom meeting.
- Select your primary monitor then click Share . If you are not sure which monitor is your primary, select the one that PowerPoint opens in.
- Switch back to Powerpoint and click the Slide Show tab.
Follow these steps if you have a single monitor and want to share your PowerPoint presentation in slide show view, but have it contained in a window rather than in full screen. This is useful if you need to access meeting features, such as in-meeting chat or managing participants, while sharing your PowerPoint presentation.
- Click the Slide Show tab and then select Set Up Slide Show .
- Under Show type , select Browsed by an individual (window) and then click OK .
- In Zoom, start or join a meeting .
- Select the PowerPoint window and then click Share .
Note : Be sure you select the PowerPoint window, not the entire screen. Sharing the PowerPoint window only will allow you to use other features without interrupting the view of the presentation.
- Select your monitor then click Share .
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Biden holds record-breaking New York City fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton
By Aaron Navarro , Jordan Freiman
Updated on: March 29, 2024 / 6:54 AM EDT / CBS News
President Biden participated in a star-studded fundraiser with former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York City in an event expected to raise more than $25 million for the president's re-election campaign.
Thursday's New York City fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall was hosted by actress Mindy Kaling and featured performances by several musical guests and artists, including Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo and Lea Michele. The event was capped off with a nearly hourlong discussion between Mr. Biden, Obama and Clinton moderated by "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert.
Obama accompanied Mr. Biden on the Air Force One flight from Washington, D.C., to New York earlier in the day.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and first lady Jill Biden also delivered remarks during the event.
Schumer touted several of Mr. Biden's accomplishments and spoke of the potential for not just the president's re-election, but for Democrats to control all three branches of government with key wins in the 2024 election.
"Re-elect Joe Biden as president, put Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker, keep me as Majority Leader, and the next four years will be better than this. You ain't seen nothing yet," the Senate majority leader said.
The first lady, joined by several other members of the Biden family, recalled that after she agreed to marry Mr. Biden, "He said, 'Jill, I promise you, your life will never change.' Well that, of course, turned out to be wildly untrue."
She also spoke of the large sum raised for her husband's campaign.
"This is the biggest fundraiser the DNC has ever held – the fundraiser to end all fundraisers – and we've raised a record amount," Jill Biden said.
Mr. Biden, Obama and Clinton discussed a wide variety of topics, from the economy to the border to the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, which Mr. Biden bluntly referred to as an insurrection.
"I was supposed to make a speech on the economy, and I decided I couldn't remain silent," Mr. Biden said. "So what I did was I made a speech about January the sixth, what was happening. And I said it was an insurrection underway, and it must be dealt with and I plead with the president to stop and do his job, call these people off. He sat there in the dining room off the Oval Office for several hours and watched, didn't do a damn thing. That's why I felt obliged even though I wasn't sworn in yet. I was president-elect."
The fundraiser was interrupted by demonstrators protesting against the war in Gaza multiple times, and one who appeared to be yelling something about nuclear with Russia, throughout the night. One interruption came while Obama was discussing Gaza, to which he replied "You can't just talk and not listen," leading the audience to give him a standing ovation.
"It is also possible for us to have our hearts broken watching innocent people being killed and try to manage through that in a way that ultimately leads to both people being able to live in peace side by side," Obama said. "That is not an easy thing."
"It is important for us to understand that it is possible to have moral clarity and have deeply held beliefs, but still recognize that the world is complicated and it is hard to solve these problems," the former president added.
There were also Pro-Palestinian protests outside the music hall, CBS News New York reported . The New York Police Department told CBS News one person was detained. There was no word on why.
The demonstrators were chanting and screaming their messages, directing their anger toward Mr. Biden and, at times, at police officers.
Mr. Biden reiterated his support for Israel and its right to self defense, but said there were "too many innocent victims" and that more aid needs to get into Gaza. Mr. Biden also expressed support for a two-state solution.
"It's understandable there's such a profound anger, and Hamas is still there, but we must in fact, stop the effort resulting in significant deaths of innocent civilians, particularly children," Mr. Biden said.
The campaign has billed the event as the "most successful political fundraiser in American history."
During a swing through Texas earlier this month, the Biden campaign raised a combined $7 million from three separate fundraisers. A fundraiser for Mr. Biden in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday raised $2.3 million.
Mr. Biden's largest single-day haul prior to Thursday came in the 24 hours after his State of the Union address earlier in March, when he raised $10 million, according to his campaign.
But Thursday's staggering sum is a new record for the campaign, and it further illustrates the growing cash gap between Mr. Biden and his presumptive general election opponent, former President Donald Trump.
Trump raised $20 million in the whole month of February and $8.8 million in January. He's also been dogged by legal bills and payments , with his campaign and the political action committees supporting him spending over $10 million in legal fees this year.
Mr. Biden's campaign committees have more than double the cash on hand of Trump's equivalent groups, $155 million for Mr. Biden and $74 million for Trump as of late March.
"Unlike our opponent, every dollar we're raising is going to reach the voters who will decide this election — communicating the President's historic record, his vision for the future and laying plain the stakes of this election," said Biden-Harris campaign co-chair and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Trump's campaign sent out two fundraising emails Wednesday mentioning Mr. Biden's Thursday fundraiser, with one calling on "one million Trump supporters to donate to beat the "Obama-Clinton cartel" and the other reading, "We can't lose to Obama!"
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Aaron Navarro is a CBS News digital reporter covering Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign and the 2024 election. He was previously an associate producer for the CBS News political unit in the 2021 and 2022 election cycles.
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Start or join a meeting. While viewing a shared screen, click on View Options and choose Side-by-side mode. The shared screen will appear on the left and the speaker will appear on the right. Hover your pointer over the boundary between the shared screen and participants' video until your pointer changes to a double arrow and you see a grey ...
This video shows you how to use side by side mode when someone else is screen sharing in Zoom. It also shows you how to get an "equivalent" side by side view...
Start or join a meeting or webinar. In the meeting controls, click Share Screen. The screen share selection window will appear, with the new layout controls displayed in a right-side Layouts panel. (Optional) At the bottom of the screen share selection window, click Layouts and Options to display or hide this right-side Layouts panel.
Please try this. Open PPT in normal view, not slide show view. Go to Slide Show, Set up Slide Show, and select Browsed by an individual (window) . Click OK. On your one monitor make PPT take up half your screen. Run your slide show (F5 function key) and it will only be on half your screen instead of full screen. Image attached.
If you want the video on the left side and the slides on the right side, drag the Camera app window partially off the left side of the screen to crop the app window so you don't see any icons to the left of the video. ... Make sure the PowerPoint presentation is in Slide Show mode, which will show the slides only in the PowerPoint window ...
Start a meeting and wait for the Zoom Room participant to join and enable smart gallery. Click Participants. Click More next to the entry for the Zoom Room participant. Click Hide Room View. (Optional) If you want to change the setting again, follow steps 2-4 and click Show Room View .
What is side by side mode and how can participants have the speaker view or gallery view while the host shares the screen i.e. white board or PPT ? The side ...
Explain how to set up and use Zoom's side by side mode so you can view a screen share (powerpoint) and teacher (presenter) at the same time
When in a meeting and a presenter shares his screen, click on " View Options" and choose " Side-by-Side Mode". This will be located at the top of your zoom screen. The shared screen will appear on the left and the speaker will appear on the right. Slide the separator to the left or right to adjust the size of each view.
Set you up for a meeting or online class on Zoom. ... How to share a presentation. Sharing Computer Sound During Screen Sharing. Optimizing a shared video clip in full screen. Side-by-side Mode for screen sharing. Zoom Interpretation. Interpretation Feature on Zoom for Participants.
@groupecapitole During you practice session, make sure to adjust your video layout by clicking View then select Speaker for My View (host view) and Side-by-side: Speaker for the Attendee View. Attendees will be able to view the shared screen on the left hand side, and see the speaker on the right hand side of the screen.
While viewing a shared screen click on View Options and select Side-By-Side Mode. Hover your mouse over the line between the shared screen and the participant's video until the pointer changes to arrows. You will be able to move the line left and right to adjust. To exit side-by-side, go back to step 1 and uncheck Side-by-Side Mode.
Version 4.1.8826.0925 or later of the Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux; Note: If dual-monitors are enabled, side-by-side mode does not work. Viewing a shared screen in Side-by-side mode. Join or start a meeting. You can choose Side-by-side mode when viewing a shared screen by clicking on View Options.
You can binge watch the videos on the "Presenting on Zoom" video channel here, or read on for the word and pictures. Chapter 1. 18 Cool Zoom Features You May Not Know About. ... "You should be viewing this presentation in side by side mode so you see me and the slides. If you want to make the slides bigger (or smaller) you can resize them ...
Open the PowerPoint file you want to present. Start or join a Zoom meeting. Click Share Screen in the meeting controls. Select your monitor then click Share . (Optional) On the meeting controls menu, hover over You are screen sharing, then click the drop-down arrow , to view the screen shared with your participants.
This is a brief tech tutorial on using Side-by-Side Mode in Zoom. This setting can help you manage a slide deck and your participants more effectively.This v...
My normal procedure is to show the speaker for a few minutes, then trim to the slide in Final Cut Pro and not have the speaker show. I occasionally will zoom out so future viewers will see who is talking. When Webinars are created and recorded, the side-by-side seems to be the default, but in regular Meetings, most of the recordings sent to me ...
You may still switch between active speaker and gallery view. By clicking on the black "View Options" tab at the top of your screen, you can switch to side-by-side mode to move the participant video panel to the side of the Zoom window. *From side-by-side mode, you can adjust the ratio of shared-screen window to participant panel by ...
In this video, let us learn how to do a clever trick of sharing the file as well as whiteboard at the same time in online lectures.
President Biden is expected to raise over $25 million at a star-studded fundraiser in New York City on Thursday with former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The campaign has ...
You can still see them in the side window, but it is independent. The attendees of the Webinar can, if they choose, select side-by-side mode and they will see the presentation next to your image. When recording, your image will appear next to the screen share, but it will not be equal size. If this answers your question, please click on 'Accept ...
Zoom has become one of the handiest tools we use but did you know that you could record yourself and your guests, side by side, and use that for your podcast...
Present Side By Side Screens. 2022-05-31 09:11 AM. We are trying to present a PowerPoint slide deck AND a live presenter at the same time to our Zoom attendees. We have searched through the Zoom FAQ's and have not found anything that clearly notes the actions we would have to take to present the slide deck and the presenter on camera side by side.
In this video, I will explain how you will be able to show your video and content side by side. This method is ecpecially useful for marketing professionals ...