The contents of this menu can change based on the meeting organizer’s settings for the chat or event, and webinars have less options too, but you can see what’s highlighted: Rename. A click on the latter and a menu appears: Move the cursor into your thumbnail view while in a live event and these pop up:Īh, a quick shortcut to muting (or unmuting!) yourself and a mysterious “ But you can search every menu and button without finding how to rename yourself in the chat, unless you know that there are hidden buttons lurking on the top right of your thumbnail preview. “tay4351”? Not particularly helpful or useful for other attendees, no question. To test this, I joined a Zoom call this morning with some colleagues. Thing of it is, this change is really easy. With a classroom, people can add their nickname (or change their displayed name to their preferred name, so “Susan Grace” might become “Susie”, for example). For example, if it’s the California Whisky Drinkers Association, each person could include their favorite distillery to their name so everyone can immediately see that information and find like minded members. I know that when I have Zoom lectures with my students, it’s inevitable that there’ll be a z4x935x or similar connected, which makes it hard to refer to them by name!īut more than that, you can also change your name based on the context of a meeting. The display name is a good example of how this works too if you don’t have your name set in your Zoom profile, it does take the first portion of your account name or even just your phone number, which can definitely be confusing.
Zoom has been expanding its capabilities for quite a few months now, and some things have ended up being a bit less than ideal.
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