thawkins3 wrote:... I like this approach, because it leaves the stewardship in the unit’s hands, Not mine.
We leave the Zoom accounts in the hands of the wards too, not ours, but we've done the task-specific gmail accounts as suggested.
Not all the bishops in our stake are tech savvy. In fact, some very much are not. There is no way some could host an online Sunday School, elders quorum, or Relief Society class.
So we asked every bishop to designate someone to be their ward Zoom administrator and email me their names and contact information. Because we are a YSA stake, we recommended it be a married adult leader serving in the bishopric, the ward clerk, or perhaps someone from a fellowshipping couple.
We asked that whoever the ward Zoom admin be, that he be someone familiar with Zoom, and someone who would ordinarily be attending the meetings that would be through Zoom anyway, like ward council, Sunday School, and elders quorum meetings.
This person sets up the zoom meetings for his ward, and makes the teacher co-host.
Two bishops chose themselves as their Zoom administrator; nine delegated it.
That makes me glad I didn't use the Bishops' email addresses from the get-go.
They are bugging me because they itching to send out notifications to the YSA ward for things like virtual ward prayer, virtual FHE activities, and Sunday classes. The accounts will be turned over to the contact each bishop has given me as their ward Zoom account steward.
