[Trainer-Talk] From Brian Hartgen: Time to Go Zoom! An Essential Guide for Zoom Meetings and JAWS for Windows.

Tue Apr 28 15:26:06 UTC 2020

You've read about it in the news, you may have seen it on TV and it is 
possible you have used it. Zoom is one of the world's most popular 
communications software packages. Whether it is hosting meetings, 
lessons, podcasts or making simple calls to friends and family, Zoom has 
all you could ever need.

On a personal level, you might want to contact family members living far 
away. Professionally speaking on the other hand, meetings are the 
heartbeat of businesses and organisations. Information is shared, ideas 
are generated, decisions are made, and work is coordinated. But running 
an effective online meeting is different from doing so in-person and 
that’s why many are run ineffectively. A correctly run virtual session 
can be just as successful as an “in person meeting,” but many meeting 
leaders lack the full knowledge necessary.

Zoom can help with all your meeting needs. Yet, with a wide variety of 
functions there comes a complex app which many have difficulty in using 
or understanding how a specific feature works.

In our new training course, "Time to Go Zoom", we'll show you how to 
work with many of Zoom's functions.

    Why Produce a Training Course When Other Resources Are Already
    Available?

The simple answer to this one is that we've been repeatedly asked for 
it. There are plenty of free and excellent resources available, many of 
which we've been promoting for a long time. However, there are a number 
of areas in which people have requested more detail. Whether you are a 
beginner to the Zoom platform whose requirements are quite modest, 
through to someone who hosts webinars and events for professional 
organisations, we're very confident you will gain a lot from this 
training course.

    Who Is the Course For? A Three Step Guide.

1.First-time users to Zoom who want a quick set-up guide;

2.Anyone who wants a handy guide to quickly use Zoom's core features;

3.Anyone who wants to save time without searching through confusing FAQ's

This course is presented in simple and clear terms, with a step-by-step 
approach that will help you to master the Zoom program within the 
shortest period of time.

    Subjects Discussed in the Training Course.

The course is divided into five audio lessons, with an expected running 
time of five and a half hours. Topics will include:

·Creating a Zoom account.

·A discussion of Zoom plans.

·Choosing a suitable microphone.

·An overview of Settings in the desktop client.

·Learning the Zoom shortcut keys.

·An overview of settings on the Zoom website.

·The do's and don't's when participating in meetings.

·An overview of the desktop client prior to joining a meeting.

·Joining a meeting from a provided link or through the Meeting ID.

·Muting and unmuting your audio.

·Leaving a meeting.

·Starting an Instant Meeting.

·Managing screen-reader alerts. Decide what is important to you.

·Scheduling a meeting using the desktop client.

·Scheduling a meeting using the Microsoft Outlook Zoom Addin.

·Copying Meting Information details.

·Copying the meeting URL.

·An overview of the Zoom primary window and the meeting window.

·The "Meeting Information" Button.

·Examining important Zoom controls a word or character at a time.

·What is "Original Sound" and how does it work?

·The Participants List. This will be a lengthy section with particular 
emphasis on muting and unmuting individual users, identifying hands 
which are raised to denote that a user wishes to speak, assigning a user 
to perform closed captioning, and banning users from a meeting. 
Particular emphasis will be placed on how blind people can independently 
carry out these actions while presenting the meeting as professionalism 
is always paramount.

·Muting and unmuting all users.

·Determining the name of the person speaking.

·Waiting Room access. Admitting all participants, admitting a user into 
the meeting individually, sending a user back to the waiting room, 
disabling and enabling the Waiting Room temporarily during a meeting.

·Recording a meeting using Zoom's own recording facility, both locally 
and in the cloud.

·Making higher quality recordings of meetings when on a budget and not 
using an audio mixer.

·Using Zoom with Braille.

·Sharing your screen and applications. This includes sharing the audio 
sound of your computer or screen-reader so it can be enjoyed by others. 
This section goes onto explain how to temporarily change user privileges 
regarding screen sharing.

·Text Chat Messages. Sending and receiving messages, reviewing messages 
received, saving chat messages.

·Security. How to lock your meetings, and control user privileges while 
a meeting is ongoing.

·Ending a meeting.

·The most common Zoom problems and how to fix them.

·Zoom meeting encryption. Exploring the encryption dialog.

·Starting and stopping video.

·Use of Non-verbal feedback.

·Obtaining a text transcript of your meeting recording.

·An overview of Zoom Phone. How it works, sending and receiving calls, 
placing calls on hold, recording voicemail, and more.

    Next Steps.

While the range of topics above may seem quite daunting, we are only 
tapping into the functionality offered by this amazing meetings client.

To some extent, this training course is delivered on the basis that some 
users do not have the knowledge to participate in Zoom meetings, so we 
need to deviate from our usual practice of the way in which our training 
courses are delivered. The weekly sessions in the most part therefore 
will be pre-recorded. They will be divided as follows:

·Sessions 1 to 3: Pre-recorded.

·Session 4: Zoom meeting for course participants, where questions can be 
asked.

·Session 5: pre-recorded.

All course participants will have access to:

·All lessons, pre-recorded or otherwise, in MP3 audio format.

·The Zoom meeting where questions can be asked.

·A text transcript comprising the majority of explanations. All our 
training courses without exception follow a carefully prepared and 
researched script, so there is no reason why the script for each lesson 
cannot be distributed for easy reference at a later time.

·An email list where course participants can ask questions and gain 
advice between sessions.

    What You Will Need.

You will need:

·access to the Zoom desktop client, a link for which will be provided to 
you.

·Ideally a headset microphone or similar. Advice will be given in this 
regard.

·JAWS version 18 or above.

·The Zoom Professional scripts. While many of the topics covered will be 
possible using the standard scripts included with JAWS version 2020, you 
will gain a great deal more from the experience if you have our own 
script files which are constantly evolving.

    Course Dates.

Lesson 1 of the training course will be prepared around 18 May 2020 and 
weekly thereafter.
All payments should reach us by the morning of 18 May 2020.

The cost for this training course is £50 which is approximately $62 US.
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We are offering an additional package if you do not have the JAWS 
scripts. The cost would be £70 (approximately $87. By doing this you are 
saving £10 which is $13.
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Alternatively, any packaged can be purchased by sending an email to 
brian at hartgenconsultancy.com <mailto:brian at hartgenconsultancy.com>, 
whereupon an electronic invoice can be sent to you, payable with any 
major credit or debit card.

    Conclusion.

With the current pandemic causing chaos around the world, Zoom has 
become a very vital tool for small, medium and large teams who want to 
stay connected and continue their daily workflows with minimal 
obstruction, as well as being able to host family gatherings at a 
distance or other social get-togethers. While we hope people will be 
relieved from social distancing at some point, the future looks bright 
for Zoom.

If you are looking to use Zoom professionally or personally, you need to 
know how to use it properly. Come along and find out how it is done! Z 
is for Zoom. All your friends in one room!

Brian Hartgen

Choose Hartgen Consultancy for high quality JAWS Script Writing, 
training and our products including J-Say, J-Dictate and Leasey.

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