Zoom gripes

My gripes against Zoom!
Zoom is a great tool.  It has been around for quite a while but has just exploded in education along with this virus crap!  Why do I suggest NOT using it then?  Because we have had 2 other tools that we pay a lot of money for that do the same thing.  Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.  Both are behind our district logins and are secure.  Neither are new and I have been using them for a while.  Some one asked why I have not done any training on them and the answer is the same.  No one comes!  I am always happy to do training - please let me know when you will be available. (BTW -  You have not been trained on zoom either!)

Here are a couple of problems with Zoom in edu.

1. It is free to users, now. When you pay for items you mainly pay for your privacy!  See the correlation there?
2. The defaults are NOT set to best privacy for children.  You are viewing/sharing minors in their home and do not know the security defaults of the software you're using.
3. By default there is a public URL for your zoom link.  Most of you will use it because it is easy.  Creepers can find it too!  Remember you are dealing with children and just published a url with their pictures and names.  A nine digit code found by computer hacker is easy to break.
4. You CAN change these setting to make it more secure, but I am not showing you how.  Why? Because we have two other options that I have shown you.  Please use the software your employer provides.

If you use Zoom - you're on your own on.