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You’re in a Zoom meeting and there’s no Share Screen button? Try this. | ZDNet
You can set your default Zoom meeting settings so that the Host is the only person who can share their screen during your meetings or you. In a webinar, only the host, co-hosts, and panelists can share their screen. If you’re using the desktop client, you can show Zoom windows during screen share. Host controls allow you as the host to control various aspects of a Zoom meeting, such as managing the participants. The co-host feature.
Enable and Disable Screen Share and Annotation for Participants
I like setting All Participants for who can share and for who can start sharing. If you have a more unruly room, you might want to set those to Host Only. Then the host needs to click Save. It’s at this point that things may get confusing.
The Share Screen button might appear for all participants. Or it might only appear to any participants who leave and then rejoin the meeting.
Which video conferencing platform is right for your business? We’ve gathered details about 10 leading services. In either case, clicking the Share Screen button will probably do absolutely nothing. We even restarted the meeting. We saw videos of our frustrated faces all across the planet. We spent quite a lot of valuable meeting time chasing our tails because the Share Screen button was there, but no screens would share.
For some reason, Zoom will show the Share Screen button but won’t actually share any screens in meetings created before Screen Sharing is enabled in the host’s settings.
So, create a new meeting making sure all the meeting options that you want like recording are enabled, send the details to everyone, and have everyone leave the original meeting and join that new meeting. Remember that screen sharing is not a meeting preference but a website-based host option. Have you had other challenges using Zoom?
Have you found any tricks that work for you? If so, let us know in the comments below. You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. Home Business Cloud. Or, more challenging, what to do if you’re in a meeting and the Share Screen button is there, but your screen won’t share. We have the secret. ZDNet Recommends. Zoom Settings. Basic Safety Info. Individual Settings. Safer Meeting IDs. Requiring a Password. Authenticated Users. Classroom Management.
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