How a PARTICIPANT can mute all conversation or audio coming from an active Zoom meeting
There are MANY reasons that a participant would need to mute all sound coming from an active Zoom session/meeting. Particularly when used for education that is so popular now with remote schooling.
Lets say that the teacher tells the class to read a chapter or take a quiz on their computer which happens every day in online class. While reading or testing, others in the active Zoom meeting are talking, or the instructor is giving instructions or talking. That chatter interrupts all the other students who are reading or trying to take the test. It is a HUGE problem for my kids who all attend Zoom online school. They can not use their local PC audio mute because often the tests have audio components too and they have to hear that audio. So during a test or other activity, they have to listen to all the chatter and noise coming from the Zoom meeting.
That HAS to be a way to mute all sound coming from Zoom as a participant. Every article I can find speaks about the host muting participants. That isn't the question. If Zoom does not have a way for a participant to mute all audio coming from zoom temporarily while they work on something else on their PC with audio, the feature has to be included in the future.
I watch kids testing or reading be interrupted by Zoom audio every day in classes.
If there is an answer, please help!
Thanks all.