Zoom's new features: Now create your own avatar and streamline meetings with Templates

Zoom adds avatars to make meetings more flexible and fun in collection of filters. They are now customisable virtual combinations so you can display virtual you in a way that is original and fun. They will mirror your movements and facial expressions, allowing you to present yourself dynamically without needing to be on video and providing a more engaging alternative to static profile pictures to inject more fun and energy into your meetings.

Don’t want to be seen eating but still want to show that you’re present and engaged. Want to present more dynamically than an off-camera static profile picture Are looking for fun activities for employee onboarding, team bonding exercises, and previously mundane meetings 

Avatars are currently available in beta to all Zoom users globally. As it progresses in beta, we will continue to expand with additional facial features, hairstyles, and more customization options when creating your human avatar. 

Different type of meetings require different settings. Users can now create, save, and choose from custom meeting templates, which automatically apply the right settings for your needs.

Large Meetings: Perfect for team-wide meetings or town halls where automated captions are enabled for all participants, and content is automatically recorded for future reference. Seminars: Ideal for corporate trainings or higher education classrooms, where tighter crowd control is needed so settings like participant screen sharing are disabled. K-12: Suited for K-12 classrooms where advanced polls and quizzes are enabled to foster greater student engagement and productivity while limiting features that could be a distraction.

Zoom is releasing later this month threaded messages and reactions, which allow meeting participants to create messages threads and consolidate emoji reactions in the in-meeting chat. This helps organize the chat messages and clarify which messages participants are responding to. 

The Q&A feature in Zoom Webinars is great for helping you engage with your webinar attendees. Now you can enjoy that same functionality in your meetings as well. The Q&A feature allows meeting hosts to stay more organized by having one place to view and answer questions. Now you won’t have to sift through meeting chats to make sure you’ve answered all of the questions. From the Q&A pop-out, hosts and co-hosts can view, answer, or dismiss questions. Hosts will have the ability to determine if they’d like meeting participants to be able to view all questions, or only ones that have been answered.