How to Install and Use Zoom – The Charlotte Garden Club

Zoom is a reliable cloud platform for video, voice, and content sharing that runs across mobile devices, computers, and telephones. Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams and members together in a virtual environment to get more done.

Get ready to attend Zoom meetings and events:

You must have a free Zoom account before you can attend a Zoom meeting. CLICK HERE to sign-up.
After you have a Zoom account, you must download the App to your phone or the plug-in to your computer before you can attend a Zoom meeting. When you attend your first Zoom meeting, if you do not have Zoom installed, you will see a link to download the App or plug-in.
If you would like to test your computer or device with Zoom, you can CLICK HERE to join a test meeting.

To attend a virtual Charlotte Garden Club program through Zoom:

All Charlotte Garden Club members will receive a meeting invitation a few days before each virtual program is scheduled.
If you would like to attend the meeting, you must click the link in the meeting invitation and register for the meeting.
If you do not register, you will not be able to attend the meeting.
Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email a day or so before the meeting. When it is time for the meeting to start, click “Click Here to Join” in the email to join the meeting.
Once you enter a CGC virtual meeting, place your cursor over the black bar at the bottom of the screen and you will see:
Please keep your microphone muted unless requested to unmute by the host.
Click the “Start Video” button to see the video portion of the meeting.
To focus on the active speaker during the meeting, put your cursor over the screen and click the “Speaker View” button in the upper right-hand corner to activate.
If you have questions for the presenter during the meeting, click the “Chat” button to send your questions to the host. There will be a Q&A at the end of the meeting.

Suggestions for attending a Zoom meeting:

It is better to attend a meeting with a computer, tablet, or phone that has a camera and microphone.
It is better to attend a meeting through WIFI.
If the meeting audio is not acceptable, please exit the audio through your device and call into the meeting audio with a phone call.

We hope to see you all in our virtual meetings!