I. Intro
You can initiate and join calls and meetings in various ways, allowing you the flexibility to collaborate in the way you prefer.
II. Steps
You must grant Lark permission to access your microphone and camera the first time you initiate or join a call or video meeting.
Initiate a one-on-one call
Notice:
- Users on Lark Starter and Basic plans can make one-on-one voice calls, but can't share screens, record calls, enable subtitles, or invite others to the voice call; and they can't make video calls.
- The Lark Basic plan supports only specific countries and regions.
You can initiate a one-on-one call in two ways.
Note: If more users are invited to a one-on-one call, the call will automatically be converted to a video meeting, and the user who initiated the call becomes the host.
- From the private chat: Click the icon in the upper-right corner to initiate a voice call, a phone call, or a video call.
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- Note: If it's a group chat, you will initiate a multi-person video meeting.
- From one's profile: Click Voice Call or Video Call.
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Initiate an instant meeting
Notice:
- Users on Lark Starter and Basic plans can't initiate video meetings, but can join ongoing video meetings.
- The Lark Basic plan supports only specific countries and regions.
You can initiate an instant meeting in three ways.
- Click the New icon above the search box on the left side of the app, and select New Video Meeting.
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- Click Meetings in the left navigation bar and choose New Meeting.
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- Click the Start video meeting icon in the upper-right corner of the group, and then click Meet now.
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For information about scheduling a meeting, see Schedule a meeting from the navigation bar and Create an event and invite guests.
Join a meeting
You can join a meeting in five ways. If you're the first to join a meeting, you'll initiate the meeting instead. It's possible that you can't join a meeting before the organizer initiates it, depending on the meeting settings.
Note: If you need to share the meeting access information, click the Copy joining info icon on the meeting card. They can then follow the following steps to join the meeting. The meeting info includes:
- Meeting topic
- Meeting time
- Meeting ID
- Meeting link
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- From the calendar view
- Access the Calendar page and click an event to bring up the event card.
- On the event card, click Start Video Meeting.
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- From the navigation bar
- Click Meetings in the left navigation bar.
- Hover on a meeting in the Upcoming list on the right, then click Start.
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- By the meeting ID: You can enter the meeting ID to join a meeting in the two following ways:
- Click the New icon at the top left of the Lark app and select Join Video Meeting, then enter the 9-digit meeting ID.
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- Click Meetings in the left navigation bar and select Join, then enter the 9-digit meeting ID.
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- By meeting link: If you receive a meeting link from someone, just click it to join the meeting.
- From group chat: When a meeting is started in a group chat, the meeting invitation is automatically pushed to the chat. Click Join on that invitation notice to join the meeting.
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III. FAQs