Accessing and Using Zoom for Torch Meetings
Many of you are probably familiar with Zoom but some are likely not, so this page attempts to let you know the basics. You may attend Zoom meetings using a desktop or laptop computer, or using a smart phone or tablet.
You will be sent an email containing an internet link for Torch meetings. On your computer or device click or tap on that link. You may see a screen asking you if you want to download and run the zoom app or open the zoom app already on your computer. Choose whichever is appropriate. Zoom will ask you whether you want to use your computer audio or dial in. Most of the time you will want to use the computer (internet) audio. You will be put in a waiting room. The host monitoring the waiting room will admit you to the main room. We will be using "break out rooms" of about 5 people for socializing before the talk. You should be in "gallery view" for socializing. "Gallery view" versus "speaker view" is set at the upper right corner of your screen. The host will place you in a break out room for socializing. The host has the ability to swap folks around. If you have a request to be in a certain group for socializing, let the host know preferably before the meeting. Around 6:15 the host will return you to the main room for the introductions and talk. During the talk you will be muted and you should put your screen in "speaker view". If you want to do a question or comment, you can use the chat feature to send it in text form to the host or the speaker and it will be read in the Q&A period following the talk. Let the host know via chat if you want to present your question verbally yourself or have the host read it. You (and only you) have the power to unmute yourself. Please use this power judiciously. Thirty some people trying to talk at once does not work well on Zoom.
If you want to invite a guest, feel free to copy the email that you have received and send it to your invitee. Please let us know about your invitee via email so that they can be recognized in the waiting room and during the run-up to the presentation.
This is new to all of us, so please be patient. Suggestions of how to improve the experience of these virtual meetings are welcome.
You will be sent an email containing an internet link for Torch meetings. On your computer or device click or tap on that link. You may see a screen asking you if you want to download and run the zoom app or open the zoom app already on your computer. Choose whichever is appropriate. Zoom will ask you whether you want to use your computer audio or dial in. Most of the time you will want to use the computer (internet) audio. You will be put in a waiting room. The host monitoring the waiting room will admit you to the main room. We will be using "break out rooms" of about 5 people for socializing before the talk. You should be in "gallery view" for socializing. "Gallery view" versus "speaker view" is set at the upper right corner of your screen. The host will place you in a break out room for socializing. The host has the ability to swap folks around. If you have a request to be in a certain group for socializing, let the host know preferably before the meeting. Around 6:15 the host will return you to the main room for the introductions and talk. During the talk you will be muted and you should put your screen in "speaker view". If you want to do a question or comment, you can use the chat feature to send it in text form to the host or the speaker and it will be read in the Q&A period following the talk. Let the host know via chat if you want to present your question verbally yourself or have the host read it. You (and only you) have the power to unmute yourself. Please use this power judiciously. Thirty some people trying to talk at once does not work well on Zoom.
If you want to invite a guest, feel free to copy the email that you have received and send it to your invitee. Please let us know about your invitee via email so that they can be recognized in the waiting room and during the run-up to the presentation.
This is new to all of us, so please be patient. Suggestions of how to improve the experience of these virtual meetings are welcome.