Hosting a meeting

To host a meeting you need to have a Zoom account. There are two types:

• A free account enables you to host a meeting for two people for an indefinite time, or for more than two people for a maximum of 40 minutes. Of course at the end of that time you can set up a new meeting for the next 40 minutes and advise participants to sign in to the new meeting.
• A monthly paid account enables you to have unlimited meetings (depending on how much you pay). Many Quaker meetings in Australia have signed up for paid accounts.

Hosting a meeting

Sign in to your account and click on "Schedule a meeting" or "Host a meeting" at the top right.

It will open a screen with default values, most of which will be appropriate for your meeting.

Click on "Save" at the bottom and it will display the meeting details.

Note that down on the right-hand side there is a link "Copy the invitation". You can use this to copy the meeting details and paste them into an email to your participants. However, you should add the telephone information to those emails as follows:

If you have to join by phone, ring 02 8015 2088 or 08 7150 1149.

You will be asked for the meeting code: key in 903 679 8841, followed by the # key. Then the password (if none, then just the # key)

When you are asked for your participant ID, just use the # key.

Note that the default option is for participants to access the meeting before you do so that they can start chatting if necessary and will be able to confirm that their software is working OK. If you turn off this option participants joining early will get a message 'waiting for host to start the meeting'.

Please note the page "Advices and warnings to hosts" below.