Join a Zoom meeting with a QR code

Reading an eleven-digit meeting ID and a passcode off a slide is how a meeting loses its first five minutes. A Zoom QR code replaces all of it with one scan. The phone opens the Zoom app, the meeting ID and passcode are already filled in, and the attendee has joined before the host has finished asking whether everyone can hear.

How to use it

• In Zoom, open the meeting and choose Copy Invitation or Copy Invite Link.
• Paste the link above. Keep the part after pwd=, since that is what lets people join without typing the passcode.
• Only have the meeting ID? Type it in, with or without spaces. People will be asked for the passcode when they join.
• Download the code and put it on the slide, the printed agenda or the room sign.
• Join from the code yourself once before the meeting, to be sure it opens the right one.

Where meeting codes help

On the opening slide of a hybrid meeting, so people in the room can join the chat and polls from their phones. On the door of a meeting room that doubles as a video call space. In the programme of a webinar series or online class that reuses the same recurring meeting. On a church, club or community noticeboard for a weekly call. A code for a recurring meeting or a Personal Meeting ID can be printed once and used for months.

Keep the audience in mind

A code that includes the passcode lets anyone who can see it join. That is the point on a slide shown to attendees, and a risk on a poster in a public place. For open spaces, turn on the waiting room so the host admits people. The link is encoded in your browser and never uploaded. Any QR is not affiliated with Zoom.