Zoom: Inviting Attendees

How to Invite Attendees to Zoom Meetings.

Once you have a meeting scheduled, you can invite others to join. 

Invite from Illinois Zoom's website

  1. From the Meetings page of the Illinois Zoom, select your scheduled meeting.
  2. If you use Outlook, you can select Outlook Calendar(.ics) under Time.

    Zoom selecting calendar
  3. This will generate a .ics file that you can open and import to your Outlook calendar.
  4. Once you have the .ics file imported, you can start inviting your attendees as a normal meeting. 

Alternatively, you can manually copy the meeting invitation by clicking the text that says Copy Invitation and paste it in your email to the attendees. 

Zoom copy meeting invitation

Invite from the Zoom software

  1. After starting the software and signing in, select Meetings from the top panel.

    Zoom application meeting tab

  2. You can now manually copy the invitation link and paste it into an email or anywhere you would like.  

    Zoom application copy invitation

Inviting from a meeting

  1. If you are currently in a meeting and would like to invite people to join, you can go to the top left corner of your screen and click the shield icon which will open your meeting information.

    Zoom shield icon
  2. Then, under the Invite Link portion of the meeting, you can click Copy Link and share the link with attendees.
    1. Additionally this is a location where you can find your meeting passcode if a participant is trying to find it.

      Zoom copy meeting link in meeting

Read more about meeting invitation on Zoom's "Inviting Others" page.



KeywordsInvite Invites Inviting How to Attendees Attendee Guest   Doc ID128360
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Created2023-05-17 12:02:00Updated2024-07-03 14:26:57
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