Joining event Zoom meetings

Prerequisites

1. Your organization owner / admin must have an actively connected zoom account to the Feather organization.
2. The event must have been created with the option to generate the Zoom Meeting.

Starting the Zoom Meeting as Host

Prerequisites

• You must be the organization Owner or,
• You must have Check in guests permission

1. Visit the page of the event with the zoom meeting

   

2. Click the button Start meeting as host. This will launch the Zoom meeting as a host, with host priviledges.

If the meeting is set to record, Zoom starts recording to Zoom Cloud when the host starts it — there is nothing to press. The event page shows Will be recorded beforehand so hosts and attendees know.

Joining the Zoom Meeting as a Guest

• You must be the organization Owner or,
• You must have Check in guests permission, or
• You must have RSVPed or purchased a ticket to the event

1. Visit the page of the event with the zoom meeting

   

2. Click the button Join meeting. This will launch the Zoom meeting as a participant.

What the event page shows instead of the buttons

• Loading Zoom meeting details. — the meeting is being created. Meetings are created the first time an event page is visited, so this appears briefly on a fresh event.
• Meeting has ended — the event’s end time has passed. If the meeting was recorded, the Recording tab appears on the event once the recording arrives; see How recordings get into Feather.
• A notice that the meeting is unavailable, with a Reconnect Zoom link — the organization’s Zoom connection has expired or been removed, so Feather cannot create or reach the meeting. An admin needs to reconnect Zoom.

Note

Only meetings started from these buttons are recorded on the event’s behalf. A meeting the host starts from their own Zoom app, or a personal meeting room, is a different meeting and its recording will not reach Feather.

After the meeting: the recording

If the meeting was recorded, attendees can watch it back from the event’s Recording tab and from the organization’s Videos tab once it has been archived. Who can watch is explained in Who can watch a recording.