Zoom Host and Web Client: Key Guidelines
This article will highlight key settings that will allow the use of Zoom’s Web Client for participants that are unable to to install the desktop application. Following these guidelines will allow folks to join the meeting via the website without having to create an account OR installing the application.
The Meeting Host MUST set these options in their Zoom Account Meeting Settings:
Keep this option grey, users don’t need to create an account to access the meeting. They will be prompted to enter their name after joining the meeting. This will prevent unnecessary confusion across the entire scope of our institution about what credentials go here.
Make sure this is enabled (blue), with this, folks will get a “Join from your browser” link when attempting to join the meeting. If this is turned off, no one will be able to join via the web client and will need to use the application to access the meeting. Because we will not be able to account for everyone’s work from home setup, in the interest of accessibility, this must be enabled.
The meeting participants MUST join the meeting by clicking on these prompts to access the web client.
Click on the meeting invite provided to you via email from the meeting host.
Click the blue “click here” text. Do not try downloading and running the Zoom application
Additional text will pop up below, click on the blue start from your browser link.
You will be prompted to enter your name, afterwards, click Join.
That’s it! If you’re early, you’ll see this text, just wait for the meeting to start.