Starting or Joining a Zoom meeting with the Desktop Zoom App
Objective:
- This tutorial is designed to help users start, join, and invite people to Zoom meetings using the Zoom desktop app.
To start a meeting:
- If you don't see the screen below, click "Home".
- Click "New Meeting:
To Invite people to an ongoing meeting
- Click the up arrow on the "Participants" tab
- Click "Invite"

For Lyon employees and Students:
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Click "Contacts" and type the name or e-mail address of the person that you wish to invite
For Non-Lyon accounts:
- Click "Email"
- Click the Gmail icon, and you will be prompted to sign in with your Lyon credentials.
To join someone else's meeting:
- Click Join in the Zoom App

- Enter the meeting ID and click join. This can usually be found in the invitation email that you received.

If you are still having trouble with your meeting please feel free to reach out to Lyon IT at 870-307-7555