(Duo and Hangouts are perfect examples) Besides, all the Zoom “app” does is open the video chat in a nice little windowed web app. Zoom is available to all Rutgers faculty, staff, and students on the left. You can also select Shared with Me to view whiteboards that have been shared with you. To view your whiteboards, select My Whiteboards. Select the Whiteboards tab, and choose New Whiteboard to start a whiteboard. Now, I’m not against using apps but there are plenty of video chat platforms out there that work solely with web technology and require no downloading of apps or extensions. We recommend at least 2550 Mbps for Zoom calls, but youll probably want more download speed than that so everyone else can get some work done at home too. Now that your iPad is connected to your computer, the next thing you need to do is download the Zoom app from iTunes. Sign into your Zoom account using the Zoom client on your device or web browser. When you click a link to join a meeting, you are prompted to head over to the Chrome Web Store to install the Zoom App. The circumstances may not be the best but cheers to Zoom for such substantial growth and for providing a low barrier to entry for users to create video chat rooms for education, social gatherings and remote work meetings.Īs simple and convenient as Zoom is, there is one particular feature that was a bit of a frustration for me.

Since the beginning of 2020, the cross-platform meetings application has gained more new users than it did for the entire year of 2019.

Chances are good that, given the events of the past two months, you’ve heard of or even used the teleconferencing platform Zoom.

Download the zoom app on my phone