Zoom - browser vs the app (email, Windows, work, router)

[robertpasa]

If you use Zoom on a Windows computer, you can do certain things with the zoom webpage in a browser. If you don't have a Zoom account, you can be in a meeting.

I think you have to have a Zoom account if you use the Zoom app - which lets you take part, schedule meetings.

If you already have a Zoom account wouldn't you just use the Zoom app all the time, not the webpage?

Is it accurate that if you schedule a Zoom meeting, you use some other program to send out the invites, is that right?

[dkf747]

When we use Zoom we have it set so everyone must be signed in to Zoom. It requires that no matter which way you want to connect.

We always use the app. i prefer that over a browser.

You have several ways to send out invites. We just use email. We have not tried other ways yet.

[jiminnm]

My wife participates in meeting via Zoom, on her tablet, but she does not have an account. Without an account, she does not the same functionality on the App as she does on a browser.

[SanyBelle]

Originally Posted by robertpasa

Is it accurate that if you schedule a Zoom meeting, you use some other program to send out the invites, is that right?

When I schedule a Zoom meeting, I get a link for the meeting. I copy and paste the link and can send it in a number of ways: email, text, facebook messenger, WhatsApp and even a family facebook group I have.

[jghorton]

I've scheduled and conducted two Zoom meetings per week for the past 8-months. Each of the 20 older, not particularly tech-savvy members per meeting must have a zoom account (free download) and meeting number, in order to sign-into the meeting. I send a weekly text reminder for each meeting (via Call Multiplier). I suppose could send a direct meeting link, but, the current method seems to work.

I've occasionally found the connection unstable (?Zoom or an Internet issue?), but switching to a direct Ethernet connection (from my router) has eliminated that problem.