There are several screen sharing options available through the Zoom Interface. See Sharing your screen or desktop on Zoom for more information.
1. Share Screen. Select your up arrow next to the Share button from the bottom toolbar to view the Screen Share options and Advanced options.
2. Select green Screen Share button to open. By default, the Basic Screen Sharing tab is available.
3. Screen: by default is sharing your entire screen. Other screens shown will depend on programs open on your computer. Optional: Choose Documents or Advanced (tab at the top) for more sharing options. Additionally, share windows applications instead of a screen.
4. Layout options. There are 4 layout options.
- By default the entire screen will be displayed.
- A movable/resizable image of the speaker will be displayed.
- The screen will decrease in size to show more background. Speaker will be displayed.
- The speaker and screen will be equal sizes.
5. Choose a Wallpaper, Share sound or Optimize for video clip. Share sound to share video clips with audio. Do not select Optimize for video clip if you are enabling a full-screen video clip. See Share sound for more information.
6. Share button: select to begin sharing.
7. Advanced Screen Sharing. Select the Advanced Tab at the top of the share screen to open advanced screen sharing options.
8. Documents Share documents from Zoom or a 3rd party sharing site. Follow the prompts to sign in to these accounts.
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