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There is a Zoom setting in preferences “stop my video when joining a video meeting”. There is also the dialog that pops up before you join asking if you want to
by Tagbert 4y ago
There is a Zoom setting in preferences “stop my video when joining a video meeting”. There is also the dialog that pops up before you join asking if you want to join with or without video.
I don’t see any way for a host to force video on. All I see is that they can send a request to you to turn your video on.
- metadat 4y agoThe point is that we cannot trust Zoom or any software to always have sane defaults, and it is a professional hazard. I use a bit of blue painters tape, which is thin enough not to put significant extra pressure on the display.
- jlund-molfese 4y agoIf you disable the dialog to turn on video, and the host “sends a request to turn video on”, the participant will be forced to turn their video on initially when joining a meeting and have to manually disable it. Anyway, the Zoom example is the least important part of my comment. I can’t trust any of those settings, because Zoom might change the defaults or overwrite what I have. I can trust tape, though. Tape won’t betray me for the sake of engagement metrics.