NEW in Zoom: AI Meeting Summaries to Boost Your Productivity

Published: 10/29/2024

This article was shared with the campus community via an email from Simeon Ananou on 10/29/2024

Get ready to transform your Zoom meeting experience! We're thrilled that Zoom’s AI Companion for Meeting Summaries is now available to all students, faculty, and staff. Meeting hosts can now initiate an AI-generated summary through Zoom. When the meeting is over, receive an email with a link to meeting details such as key topics covered during the meeting, action items, highlights, and more. 

Why Zoom AI Meeting Summaries are a Game-Changer

  • Boost productivity: Ditch the distraction of note-taking and fully engage in your meetings. Zoom AI captures all the important details for you!
  • Reclaim your time: Quickly catch up on already-in-progress or missed meetings or review key decisions. No more sifting through lengthy recordings or notes.
  • Collaborate like never before: Easily share summaries with colleagues to keep everyone informed and on the same page.
  • Enhance meeting efficiency: Identify key takeaways and action items at a glance, propelling your team’s progress.

How to Enable Zoom AI Meeting Summaries

Zoom AI Meeting Summaries are turned off for all Stony Brook meetings by default. If you are the host of a meeting and wish to enable Meeting Summaries:

  1. Sign into stonybrook.zoom.us and navigate to Settings
  2. Under AI Companion, toggle on Meeting summary with AI Companion

Once your Zoom meeting begins, activate Zoom AI Meeting Summaries by clicking the AI Companion.

Zoom AI is the ONLY Approved Meeting Summary Tool

While other third-party meeting summary tools exist (e.g., Read.AI, Otter.AI), DoIT hasn’t vetted these tools, which could expose sensitive institutional information. If you have been using another meeting summary tool, disconnect that tool from your Stony Brook Google account by performing the following:

  1. Go to myaccount.google.com/connections
  2. Select the application (e.g., Read.AI, Otter.AI)
  3. Select Delete All connections you have with...

Additional Information

View detailed instructions and FAQs. Also register to join DoIT in a workshop on this new feature. We are confident this feature will revolutionize your meetings and boost your productivity. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don't hesitate to contact DoIT.