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Zoom's AI Companion tool, in addition to providing summaries, can help answer questions asked by meeting participants about the content of a meeting. Preset questions are provided, such as “Catch me up”, “Was my name mentioned?”, and “What are the action items?”, which can be useful for catching up when you join late or return after stepping away from the meeting. AI Companion Questions can also help answer more specific questions, like “Was a date agreed on?”
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Zoom's AI Companion tool, in addition to providing summaries, can help answer questions asked by meeting participants about the content of a meeting. Preset questions are provided, such as “Catch me up”, “Was my name mentioned?”, and “What are the action items?”, which can be useful for catching up when you join late or return after stepping away from the meeting. AI Companion Questions can also help answer more specific questions, like “Was a date agreed on?”
Enabling AI Companion Questions
- Log into your UNLV Zoom account
- On the left-hand navigation, select Settings
- Select AI Companion tab
- For the Allow ask users to as AI Companion questions about the meeting setting, turn the radio button to the ON position
After enabling AI Companion Questions, you can also select who can ask questions when it is enabled in a meeting. There are three options:
- All Participants: Allows all participants to ask questions about all discussion that has taken place from the time the host activated the AI Companion.
- Participants Only from When They Join: Allows all participants to ask questions about anything discussed from the time they joined the meeting; they cannot ask questions about any discussion that occurred prior to the time they joined the meeting.
- Only Hosts: Allow only the original host, alternative host, and users with host privileges assigned before the meeting starts to ask questions about all discussions since AI Companion is active.
Using AI Companion Questions in a Meeting as a Host
After starting a Zoom meeting, look for the AI Companion button icon in the Zoom meeting controls. If AI Companion Questions have been turned on in your settings, you are able to access them by selecting the AI Companion icon in your control bar.
By selecting this, AI Companion Questions will appear in a chat-like side panel. You will be suggested a variety of prompts to start the "conversation" with AI Companion, or you can write your own.
Keep in mind that AI Companion Questions can only answer about discussion items that occurred since it has been turned on. For example, if it has been turned on at the start of the meeting, it will be able to answer questions from the beginning. If it was turned on midway during the meeting, it can only answer questions about discussion items discussed after it was turned on.
Ending AI Companion Questions
If the you as the Host wish to discuss topics informally without AI Companion running for in-meeting queries, you can disable AI Companion so those topics will not be available for analysis and questions.
- After selecting AI Companion in the Zoom meeting controls, the AI Companion panel will open
- In the top-right corner, click the settings gear icon
- Toggle the radio button beside Meeting Questions to OFF
Requesting AI Companion Questions as a Participant
If you are not the host of a meeting but wish to use AI Companion in it, you can send a request to the meeting host to enable it. To do so:
- Join a meeting
- In your Zoom meeting controls, select AI Companion
Starting AI Companion Questions
- If not currently enabled for the meeting, you will be prompted to request feature enablement
- Click Send Request
- The request will be sent to the Host in the current meeting
Need Additional Help?
For additional assistance, please visit the Zoom knowledge base for additional articles. You can also contact the IT Help Desk.