 Zoom just announced a huge update to their popular online meeting platforms. Apps such as Kahoot, Mentimeter and several others can now be directly run in Zoom. That is big. Let's check it out. Once you start your Zoom application, make sure you are signed in to Zoom. Zoom apps only work if you are signed in. If you directly join a meeting without signing in, you won't be able to use the Zoom apps. Give your username and password and sign in. You should see a new icon on top here called Apps. If you don't see this icon, click on your profile button and click check for updates. If you are running a version that is earlier than 5.7.3, make sure you update the app and then restart Zoom. At this point, you should be able to see the apps icon. Once you click on the apps icon, it will show you two tabs. My apps which show you all the Zoom apps that we have already installed and the Discover tab that allows you to explore and install additional Zoom apps. In my case, I have already installed four Zoom apps. Kahoot, Timer, Virtual Background and something called Meetings Fun. Let's see what are the steps required to install a new Zoom app. Click on Discover. Then click on this link Discover more apps on Apps Marketplace. This will take you to the Zoom Marketplace where you can see all the apps. You can search for the apps by categories or you can search for the app by typing the name of the app here. If you want to browse through all the apps, click on Zoom apps and go through all the apps page by page. As of this moment, there are over 50 Zoom apps in the App Store but I'm sure this number will grow very fast. Let me try and install Mentimeter, a very popular app like Kahoot to make your Zoom meetings fun and interactive. I can directly type the name of the app here. Click on Mentimeter. It may ask you to sign in to your Zoom account once again. No worries. Click on Sign in to install. Give your Zoom credentials and click on the Sign in button. If you find that you can't click on the install button, just scroll down and click on this option Pre-Approve. Once this is enabled, the option to install should be available to you. Click on the button. Each app may have their own installation process depending on the complexity of the app. For example, apps like Kahoot require you to create an account on Kahoot before you can install the app. In this case, let me click on the Authorize button. As you can see, like Kahoot, Mentimeter wants you to sign in to their portal and have your account with Mentimeter. Let me sign in to Mentimeter with my Facebook account. Follow the steps presented on the screen. You will get a verification code. Click on Copy to clipboard. Then go to your Zoom app and paste the verification code here. Click Login. As you can see, we now have five apps installed in Zoom. All apps will not require the same steps for installation. Depending on the complexity, some apps can be installed with a click of a button. Some may require to create your account with that app. Now that we know how to install apps in Zoom, how do we use them? Let's create a meeting and find out how these new apps work in Zoom. Create a new meeting or start a scheduled meeting. In your Zoom meeting client, you will find a new option at the bottom called Apps. If you click on it, it will show you all the apps that are already installed. In my case, I had five apps installed. If you want to add more apps, you can do that directly from here also. In some way, click on Discover, click on this option and it will take you back to the same Zoom marketplace. To execute any application, all you have to do is click on the app. It will show you a brief description of the app. From there, we can click Open. All apps follow the same standard interface. There are three options available. The first option is to Share. This allows you to share the content of your app to the meeting participants. Whatever the app shows here will be visible to the audience. You can choose to share with or without computer sound. The Send option allows you to send the link of the app to all or selected participants. These participants will get a notification to open the app. If the participants have already installed the Zoom app, they can directly open the app. Otherwise, they will go through the same process of going to Zoom marketplace when they need to authorize and install the app on their Zoom client. And finally, the Expand and Collapse option allows you to make the app window bigger or smaller in comparison to the rest of the Zoom window. For example, if I want to run this timer app, which is a very simple timing device, I will choose one of the standard timings. For example, five minutes or 10 minutes and click on the Start button to start the timer. I can also customize my own time. Let's say I want to countdown timer for one minute. Let me click on the reset and click one minute. And then I can hit the Start button. The timer starts a countdown. If I want to expand this window, click on the Expand option here. If I want to share this window to the audience, all I have to do is click on Share and select No Audio. And this is what the audience will be observing on their screen. When I want to stop the sharing, click on Stop Share. You will get an alert when the timer is done and that's all there is to it. The same goes for the other apps. For example, if you want to run Kahoot, click on Open. You can join a Kahoot directly from here or you can host your own Kahoot. If you click on the Host button, you will have to log into Kahoot once again. I already have an account with Kahoot. So all I have to do is click Login. I will give my credentials. And once I am successfully logged into Kahoot, click on the Open button, which will take you back into Zoom. You can see all the games that you have defined in Kahoot. All you have to do to run the game is click on it and start. Let me expand it and click on the Share button. This will show the Kahoot screen to the Zoom participants. And if they have the Kahoot app installed on their Zoom, they can directly play the game within Zoom without going to the Kahoot website. Once you are done, you can click on the Quit button. Click Yes and you can go back to your apps. Now that Zoom has opened the apps store for third-party apps, expect to see a lot of exciting apps that integrate directly into Zoom to make your meetings fun and interactive. Go and update your Zoom client. Check out the apps that are available. Download what looks interesting and experiment with it. If you like this video, please click the Subscribe button. I appreciate the love.