Jump Start a Zoom Video Conference with many in 9 Steps

Zoom allows you to start a video conference with up to 100 people. Following the steps below you can configure it in 15 minutes. Here are a few screenshots and hints.

1. Sign in to Zoom.us and open Profile. First, you may have to click My Account on the right. You will find Profile Menu on the left.
2. Profile Settings – First, you need to note down the Personal Meeting ID (PMI) in your profile and send it to others who will be attending the meeting. I am assuming you will be hosting the meeting. So you are the host and others are participants. The PMI is visible in the screenshot below.
   
3. You may like to change the password for the meeting, to something people can remember easily. The password for the meeting is different from your Account Login Password.
   
4. Meeting Settings – Click the Settings Link which appears a little below Profile Link on the Left Menu Bar. The following are a few helpful settings related to meetings.
   Start meeting with Participants Video On, means you immediately know who has joined in. So you may like to enable the setting shown in the screenshot below.
   
   This step is optional.
5. Installing App –  Ask Participants to download Zoom Cloud App from Play Store, install and sign in to a meeting by inserting ID and password you have provided.
6. Hosting a Meeting – This menu is on the top right-hand corner. Click on it and them on With Video On.
7. Installing Windows App – When you click Hosting a Meeting With Video On, you will be asked to download and install Zoom Windows App. After running this app click on the Blue Zoom App Icon on your Windows taskbar.
8. Operating the Meeting –  Please move the mouse and notice the bar at the bottom.
   Click on the orange-colored Manage Participants Button. When Participants try to log in, their names will appear in the Participants Menu Bar for a brief moment. You need to click the Admit Button next to their Mobile Name. Sometimes, when participants join their sound is muted. So you can hover the mouse over their names in the Participants Menu Bar and click unmute buttons.
9. Displaying Presentations or Drawing – You can use a presentation or write something in a word file and display it to supplement your speech.  You need to click on the green Share Screen Button. This will display your desktop. Now open the presentation file and others will see what you see on the desktop.