Zoom - Sharing Meeting Content

Getting Started:

• Content Sharing allows you or other participants to share content during a Zoom meeting.
• Collaborate on documents during meetings
• Annotation tools to mark up documents

Sharing Your Screen Content

1. Click the Share Screen button located in your meeting tool bar. 
2. Select the screen you want to share. You can choose an individual application that is already open on your computer, the desktop, a whiteboard, or an iPhone/iPad. 
   
   
   
   
    
3. Optional: 
   • Check Share Computer Sound: if you check this option, any sound played by your computer will be shared into the meeting.
   • Check Optimize for full screen video clip: Check this if you will be sharing a video clip in full screen mode. Do not check this otherwise, as it may cause the screenshare to be blurry.
4. Click Share Screen.
   
   

Screen Share Menu

When you start sharing your screen, the meeting controls will move into a menu that you can drag around your screen.

• Mute/Unmute: Mute or unmute your microphone.
• Start/Stop Video: start or stop your in-meeting video. 
• Participants/Manage Participants: View or manage the participants (if the host).
• New Share: Start a new screenshare. You will be prompted to select which screen you want to share again. 
• Pause Share: Pause your current screen share
• Annotate: Use screen share tools for drawing, adding text, etc. 
• More: Hover over move for additional options.
  
  
  
  
   
  • Chat: Open the chat window. 
  • Invite: Invite others to join the meeting.
  • Record: Start recording locally or to the cloud. 
  • Disable participants annotation: Prevent the participants from annotating on your shared screen.
  • Audio Options: Open the audio options.
  • Video Settings: Open the video options. 
  • Optimize Share for Full-screen Video Clip: Start optimizing for a video clip in full screen mode. We do not recommend using this if you are not sharing a full screen video clip, as it make blur your screen share. 
  • End Meeting:  Leave the meeting or end the meeting for all participants.

Annotation

1. Select Annotate to begin annotating on your shared screen.
   
   
   
   
    
2. This will open the annotation menu.
   
   
   
    

Annotation tools:

• Mouse
• Select
• Text
• Draw
• Spotlight/Arrow: Turn your cursor into a spotlight or arrow. 
• Eraser
• Format: change the formatting options of the annotation tools.
• Undo
• Redo
• Clear
• Save: this allows you to save all annotations on the screen as a screenshot. The screenshot is saved to the local recording location.