Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Show or hide the Zoom meeting controls

The meeting controls in a Zoom meeting are located in a black bar at the bottom of the Zoom window. This bar can appear when the mouse cursor is anywhere over the Zoom window, and it disappears seconds after the mouse leaves the window:

Zoom toolbar


You may want to have this control bar static and visible at all times. Here’s how.

There is a toggle checkbox in the Zoom settings screen in the Zoom application. This settings window is different from the general settings screen on the Zoom website. It allows you to set preferences for session audio or video, among other things:

General settings screen on Zoom


There are several ways to access this window. To do so easily from within the Zoom meeting, hold down the carat by either the video or audio button at the left of the control bar and select the last item in the pop-up menu:



The settings window opens to the video or audio settings screen. Select “Accessibility,” the last menu item in the list at the left.

“Accessibility” settings screen



Here you can set the size of subtitles for audio transcription or the size of the text in the Chat. You can also toggle the meeting controls to be always on or not. Select the checkbox for “Always show meeting controls” to keep the control bar visible at all times.

“Always show meeting controls” box checked


De-select this checkbox to allow the control bar to disappear and reappear, depending on the position of your mouse cursor.

Explore some of the other settings in this window to see how you can customize your Zoom meetings.

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