Screen Sharing and Whiteboard in Zoom

When to use:

To show a document  

PowerPoint presentation

Need a whiteboard to write on

Screen Share:

Once you’re in a Zoom meeting, you can click on “Share Screen” for screen sharing. 

Choose the window you would like to share or your whole screen and click on “Share.”

There’s also a Whiteboard option. 

You can write on a virtual whiteboard with your mouse, type, or use other annotating tools. 

If you would like others to also be able to annotate simultaneously on your hosted meeting, log in to zoom.us using netid@umass.edu, click on the settings tab, and turn on this setting:

Keep in mind, this setting is applied for all your hosted meetings, but can be disabled in the meeting as host.