ZOOM FAQ

If you have a Zoom question, please send an email to zoomrequest@braverangels.org. 

The location of the recording depends upon which Zoom account was used for your event:

• • If a Braver Angels account was used, you should be able to find it on the Zoom Archive. You'll need to be logged in as a Braver Angels Member to see this archive.

  • If a personal or private account was used, they will need to contact the account owner.

Check this procedure from Zoom Central.

We have only one webinar license, so if you want to use a webinar format this needs to be coordinaed in advance. When you request your zoom reservation with ERF, you'll want to make it clear you want to do a webinar. A dry run of the webinar is recommended so you can test and practice with the functions you plan to use.

A webinar involves three classes of people, as shown below

Host and Co-hosts:

• The total number of hosts/co-hosts and panelists is limited to the number licensed for a zoom meeting - typically 300 people

Panelists:

• Panelists for your event are identified in advance and are invited to be a panelist

• In a Braver Angels event, the whips, moderators, chairs, etc are also invited as panelists

Attendees:

• Attendees are those attending the event to listen to the participants

• The total number allowed depends upon the webinar license - for Braver Angels, this is 1000 or 5000 people

A webinar Q&A box has several forms:

• Anonymous or not

• Turned on and off - you can limit it to after speeches or prompt attendees to respond in a particular way that focuses their attention

• Note: In a large meeting or webinar, there are always a few people behaving obnoxiously, but it is manageable.

It is possible to have a Q&A type function in a normal Zoom meeting through the chat box. The approach is to assign someone to be responsible for monitoring chat and passing questions along to the moderator. This is an additional role to the usual ones.

Braver Angels is providing a set of licenses for use by Alliances across the US. If you are scheduling alliance activities, we encourage you to use the Zoom licenses. Email field-ops-zoom-wnc@braverangels.org to request a reservation. 

You can find the default settings here.

If you used a Braver Angels Zoom License, use this procedure to download a CSV list of the people who attended your Zoom meeting.

• • • Getting your tech set up for smaller meetings and larger meetings

    • A buyers' guide for hybrid meetings

    • How to set up your room

• Zoom backgrounds

Please check out this quick video tutorial on how to use these screen share features. 

Events registered via the Event Request Form are assigned a unique numeric ID.   This ID is then used to create helpful "short links" for participants that redirect to the correct Zoom meeting if they are clicked within 1 hour prior to the event start time or 1 hour after the event end time.

A Zoom short link for participants follows the format below:

https://zoom.braverangels.org/<<EVENT_ID>>

So if an event ID was 1234, the Zoom short link for that event would be 

https://zoom.braverangels.org/1234

If you are an organizer and you wish to test a Zoom short link outside of the 1-hr time window, you can append ?organizerTest=true to the end of the participant URL and you will be redirected to the meeting.

For example, https://zoom.braverangels.org/1234?organizerTest=true will take you to the zoom meeting for event 1234, regardless of when the link is clicked.