{"id":8640,"date":"2020-12-09T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:54:29","slug":"muting-and-unmuting-zoom-participants-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/09\/muting-and-unmuting-zoom-participants-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Muting and Unmuting Zoom Participants at School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I recently found this setting on Zoom for our school district and found it tremendously helpful! The host of a Zoom meeting can mute and unmute the participants in their Zoom classroom after changing a setting and getting permission from the participant. Here&#8217;s a video tutorial I made showing how to do it: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j96BJcho_ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/j96BJcho_<wbr \/>ec<\/a>. Make sure to ask permission so the students don&#8217;t see this as an invasion of their privacy. Share this tip as you choose, some teachers will find it indispensable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you can&#8217;t find the &#8220;unmute&#8221; option in the menu, you probably need to upgrade your Zoom software. It&#8217;ll take just a minute: In the Zoom program, click on your face in the upper right corner of the window. Then click on &#8220;Check for Updates&#8221;. \u00a0 Then do the instructions from the video above.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The unmute feature probably isn&#8217;t available if you are using a personal license of Zoom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found this setting on Zoom for our school district and found it tremendously helpful! The host of a Zoom meeting can mute and unmute the participants in their Zoom classroom after changing a setting and getting permission from the participant. Here&#8217;s a video tutorial I made showing how to do it: https:\/\/youtu.be\/j96BJcho_ec. Make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}