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Learn Common Zoom Skills & How to Format Your Name for Class

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Banner photo credit: Compare Fibre @comparefibre

This article contains info and videos to help you learn how to do the following Zoom skills:

  • Changing my name.

  • Switching between “speaker view” and “gallery view.”

  • Posting a message into chat.

  • Muting and unmuting myself.

  • Starting and stopping my video.

Knowing these skills will allow you to fully participate in the instructional classes and in the Community Heart Shares.

Changing Your Name on Zoom (2 Min)

How to Format Your Name for the Mindfulness Fundamentals Course

Now that you know how to change your name on Zoom, here is how we’d like you to format your name during the live instructional classes which are recorded.

  1. First put the initials CP if you are a course participant or VM if you are veteran meditator.

    Course participants have committed to attending all of the course classes, or watching ones missed, and doing their best to do the course’s daily, weekly and monthly mindfulness missions.

    Veteran meditators have already taken one of our courses, or have been attending the School of Love for some time. They are welcome to attend whenever able.

  2. Then add a hyphen (-) and the letter “C” if you only want to communicate via chat or an “S” if you are willing to speak.

  3. Then put either your first name or class name that you want people to call you.

  4. Finally, in parenthesis put your pronouns.

Here are some example name formats:

CP-C Maple (they/them)

VM-S Sheila (she/her)

For couples Zooming in on the same screen it might look like this:

VM-C Persistence (she/her) and CP-S Waterfall (he/him)

VM-S Water (she/her) and Fire (they/them) (in this case both are veteran meditators willing to speak)

If you have any questions about this, please contact the course instructor.

The Remaining Zoom Skills Listed Above (4 min)

Hopefully, these tutorials help you feel more prepared to participate fully at any Zoom class you attend. If you want more detailed instructions on these Zoom features, or you want to learn more about how to use Zoom, then watch Zoom’s own online video tutorials.

Finally, read these tips to help you get the most out of the Zoom classes you attend.