
Outside of the work you already do whilst attached to your screen, zoom meetings add extended periods of time where you’re forced to strain your eyes on your screen. You can feel this intuitively at the end of the day, you have a screen headache (Computer Vision Syndrome). The human eye was not designed to spend that much time concentrating on your pixelated co-workers. Part of the energy sap that comes with day-long video conferencing is the time spent staring at a screen. Dial-in with audio-only (aka a phone call) 7 effective ways of meeting remotely without the Zoom-drainġ.

At least one participant will need to enter the host key before the conference call can begin.And while we know that video conferencing drains your energy and leads to “Zoom fatigue“, teams tend to revert to video calls as the default communication method.

Note: Please remember to identify the Host Key for your conference calls. Once Personal Audio Conference has been enabled, you will be provided with two 10 or 11-digit meeting IDs that can be used for audio conferencing. Select Enable Personal Audio Conference in the left menu.Click the Personal Audio Conferencetab.Sign in to the using your Virginia Tech PID and password.The Personal Audio Conference must be enabled on your profile. (However, your account will not allow you to host both a video call and a conference call at the same time.) Enabling Personal Audio Conference You will have two personal audio conference numbers, which you can use simultaneously for different conference calls. Personal Audio Conference gives you the ability to host conference calls (telephone dial-in only) with your Zoom account.
