How to make a video call with Zoom as a host or to enter as a participant

Zoom is an app to make video calls which is gaining more and more popularity for various reasons. One of them is due to the high quality of both its video and audio broadcasts, apart from being very flexible so that you don't even need credentials to enter a conference to which we have been invited through a URL link.

A free app, although with its limitations such as it's those 40 minutes per video call as long as it's 3 or more participants, but if we switch to their subscription of 13,99 euros per month we would remove certain limitations. We are going to show you how to make a video call step by step.

The main virtues of Zoom

Apart from its high quality in video and audio when we are connected in a conference, Zoom stands out for its great flexibility. We say this because apart from being able to connect when you register with an account, it can also be done through a URL link that, depending on the platform that we open it, will take us through the installation of the app if we do not have it on our mobile , or, if we do it from a laptop, do it through the web.

This flexibility allows anyone with very basic computer or mobile knowledge to access a meeting room with more colleagues or family in a matter of minutes. That said, from the free version we have the limit of 40 minutes for conferences of 3 or more participants. If we want to cross that barrier we simply have to pay, although sometimes Zoom will give us another great time in time to continue using it.

Zoom also allows certain things like turning off the audio to everyone who is participating, share screen, chat, private messages, greeting emoticons and even rename the participants. It is a dedicated app for the business or professional level, but entering within its limited options of its free version, it can serve us all.

How to create a conference in Zoom: host

If it is the first time that you work with Zoom and you want create a meeting as a host the steps are these:

• We download Zoom from Android:

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• Once installed we will see the option to join the conference. We skip this step and we are going to create an account that we will need to be the host.
• Registered with Google, the next screen invites us to start Zoom to create a conference.
• Click on Start Zoom
• Ya we go directly into the app and we will have at the top the buttons that interest us: new meeting, enter, schedule and share screen
• Right below we will have the scheduled meetings with which anyone who has been to a conference and has been invited can receive it, they can even be sent to the calendar to schedule it.
• Click on start meeting
• It will connect and It will ask us for the permissions for access to microphone, camera and memory

• The conference interface will be launched.
• Now click on participants in the lower bar and on the new screen click on invite
• We get all the apps from which we can send the invitation with the URL link

• We copy the link and paste it in a WhatsApp group itself

From this link all users who want to be able to access from the platform whatever they are iOS, Android, Windows and more.

The mobile app is managed through the main screen with the video and with a gesture to the right to pass the participants and another on the left to stop the video and simply have the audio. Anyway, we have these functions in the lower toolbar.

How to connect to a video call in Zoom as a participant

Zoom is characterized by the ease of participating in a video call or conference. Unlike creating a conference as a host, when we enter as a participant we do not necessarily need to create an account. And we do it like this:

• We press about the link that they have sent us through a chat in WhatsApp, another app or the same email.
• A first screen is generated that informs us if we want to create a conference or enter as a spectator in small print.
• We press Enter as a spectator.

• A screen is then generated from the web that will show us a series of three buttons: one to enter the conference (if we have the app installed we will use this one), another to install the app from the Google Play Store and another to download the apk.

• We will use the install button from the Play Store.
• Once installed, we return to the previous screen and click on Join meeting.

• We can also give back to the invitation url received and thus we generate that screen that allows us to enter the conference.
• Once pressed, it will take us directly to the conference without having to register.

So we are already in the meeting and we will only have get hold of the interface to mute the mic, activate video, share screen or share documents like images and more.

So you can connect to the Zoom video call and have a great tool for communication these days of being at home. A very useful tool that we already talked about in this list of the best apps to telecommute from home due to the coronavirus.