Zoom AI Companion

Zoom AI Companion is expected to be available in January 2025 for meetings hosted by faculty and staff.

About Zoom AI Companion

Zoom AI Companion is an AI-based digital assistant that enables you to enhance your productivity and collaboration. With Zoom AI Companion, you can generate a detailed summary of your meeting discussions that includes discussion topics, main points, and action items; get caught up on meeting content you might have missed; and ask questions related to your meeting.

For ideas on how to use Zoom AI Companion effectively in your teaching practice, please visit the CNDLS page about using Zoom as a teaching tool.

Features

The following Zoom AI Companion features are currently available for faculty and staff to use:

  • Meeting Summary
    Meeting Summary provides a comprehensive overview of your meeting. The summary includes meeting recap, discussion points (with subheadings included for each discussion), and next steps. 
  • In-Meeting Questions
    In-Meeting Questions enables meeting participants to ask the Zoom AI Companion questions about the meeting’s content thus far. It can be helpful if you’re joining a meeting in progress and want to find any specific details up to that point.

    You can ask Zoom AI Companion preset questions such as whether you’ve been mentioned in the meeting, request to be caught up by generating a summary of the meeting thus far, and find out if there are any action items. 

These features are available for all meetings hosted by faculty and staff by default, but the host or co-host will still need to turn these features on in their meetings.

Notifying Meeting Participants

IMPORTANT:  If you’re a meeting host, you must inform participants if you will be using Zoom AI Companion during the meeting.

We suggest the following for hosts to communicate to their attendees before turning on Zoom AI Companion:

During this meeting, we will be using Zoom AI Companion. Zoom AI Companion will generate a summary and action items for the meeting. If you would prefer this technology not be used during this meeting, please let me know.

Meeting participants will also receive a message that Zoom AI Companion has been turned on, and will see a flashing star in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

Learning More About Zoom AI Companion

To learn more about Zoom AI Companion, you can visit the Zoom AI Companion site created by Zoom. You can also visit the following UIS web pages:

Getting Help 

If you have questions or need assistance, please contact UIS. You can also visit the UIS Zoom AI Companion FAQ page.

The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) can provide guidance in using Zoom AI Companion and other tools in your teaching.