Hello, we recently held a zoom conference with 35 people who attended, but 7 could not get on. One received this comment: "The host requires authentication on the commercial Zoom platform to join this meeting. Please log in with a commercial Zoom account to join."  what does this mean, and what did I do wrong?

I know this is a struggle for all.  I have noticed that once one or two participants start responding in chat, the others often feel more encouraged.  I would love to have a "fake" person or really a second me to add to chat as another participant rather than the facilitator.  I think this would encourage others to respond as well.  I find that once chat is started by one participant or two, often others feel encouraged to chat.

I hope this makes sense - I just saying is there a way to pretend to be a participant instead of the facilitator to chat?

Yesterday - 1/11/2023, I had attendees say that the host has disabled video.  I had many people sharing their video but about a handful out of 100 people said it was disabled by host. I was the host and do not disable video. I went to each window pane and asked them to start their video. Then they could. Just wanted to see what may have happened to not have this reoccur.

I am sharing a powerpoint as my background and the toolbar never comes down to let me use annotation. When you share a normal screen it allows you to use annotation. When using the advanced share screen and using the powerpoint as a background it does not allow me to use annotation. Can any help give guidance? Thanks!