ZOOM Cloud Meeting‪s‬ 4+

Zoom has been amazing and so beneficial during these unprecedented times, with COVID pandemic.
Normally, as Jehovah’s Witnesses, all around the world, each week we would have be meeting regularly with our loving brothers and sisters at our Kingdom Halls or place of worship. But, with the used of Zoom, we are able to remain safe and still meet and see one another.
Many of older, infirm or handicapped friends really appreciate Zoom greatly, love that they now see, hear and participate at our meetings. One big reason is that it is very user friendly or simple to use. Even my 92 old father is able to Zoom into his spiritual meetings with his congregation, in totally different state than me. I’m also able to check on and see him more often, from a distance, using this incredible tool.

Thank you so much for helping us all stay safe, by being obedient to our loving God Jehovah, who wants us to be safe and helping comply with the local authorities, to shelter in place while we are still able to enjoy our spiritual associations with one another and continuing to still be taught spiritually.

This app is amazing! I totally recommend it. The part that I really like is that the host has control over many things. I like being able to control who comes in and out through the waiting room. It is also helpful to be able to lock the meeting. Being able to mute and turn off the video of you and others in the meeting is super helpful, especially as a teacher. The chat feature is great for people how do not want to unmute. Also you have a virtual background, you can raise your hand, make a reaction, share your screen and, so much more!

But, there are a few downsides to Zoom. One of them is people freeze and glitch, sometimes you can’t see or hear them at all. It may just be the internet but, I find this annoying. Second, when you exit the app and you are are still on the meeting your camera turns off. I find this annoying when you are sharing your screen or accidentally exit Zoom. Lastly when the host shares their screen people can draw or write on it. This is so annoying and distracting. I can not find a way to disable this.

Although there are problems, minor ones, I still enjoy Zoom. The problems don’t stop me from recommending zoom. Once those glitches are gone, Zoom will be perfect. I love Zoom!!!

For “everyday” practical purpose, it is fine. But there are few things that I would like to see. One is more “set up” feature like allow me to remove “pin” whatever it is. Also allow me to alert the host the problems quickly without have to look through the list of “participants” just today, I discover the glitch which somehow didn’t switch the view to activate participant screen on time it always delayed until someone else decided to participate the meeting. Maybe it is due to Apple, Inc just upgrade my ipad that cause some glitch. I don’t know for sure. It just happen today, in the past it went fine. Also look like there is mid-level curve-learning. And for some reason, I couldn’t consult the instruction manual to help me to figure how the Zoom app work.

Update information: there is something wrong with the app in dealing with “spotlight”. It used to be work great till last week where the appear of spotlight always “late” when the participant finished his or her saying for the zoom meeting. It seems to me it only affect iPad users. Need to be fix this. Right now, I’m stuck with gallery view mode to see the current spotlight to listen