
{"id":8330,"date":"2021-02-02T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:05:45","slug":"joel-feenstra-shows-you-how-to-use-the-wacom-expresskey-remote-for-all-your-zoom-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/joel-feenstra-shows-you-how-to-use-the-wacom-expresskey-remote-for-all-your-zoom-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the Wacom ExpressKey Remote for All Your Zoom Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve heard of the <a href=\"https:\/\/estore.wacom.com\/en-US\/expresskey-remote-accessory-us-ack411050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ExpressKey Remote<\/a> but don\u2019t have one, it might seem like just a replacement for the buttons that were removed from the latest generations of Cintiqs.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 For one, the ExpressKey comes with\u00a0<em>seventeen\u00a0<\/em>buttons instead of the four standard on many other tablets, all of which can be used for any computer function that can be assigned to a hotkey.\u00a0 And it can even be used without a tablet.\n\nIn this pair of videos, electrical technology professor Joel Feenstra talks about using it to control Zoom, both for meetings and classes.\u00a0 In the first, he goes over the remote\u2019s physical layout, then enters Zoom to demonstrate how he uses it for all of the common functions he uses it for, like switching between camera and screen share, raising and lowering the volume, and muting or unmuting both himself and others.\n\n<iframe title=\"Controlling Zoom with a Wacom ExpressKey\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KkYbVBZUB3c?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8646\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/EKR-Settings.png\" alt=\"Joel&#039;s ExpressKey remote settings\" width=\"840\" height=\"577\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/EKR-Settings.png 840w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/EKR-Settings-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/EKR-Settings-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/EKR-Settings-480x330.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/>\n\nIn the second (in a similar vein to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/how-to-make-writing-a-breeze-with-the-wacom-intuos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my last article on setting up Wacom tablets for work<\/a>), he goes into detail on how to program the buttons to do these things.\n\n<iframe title=\"Programming the Wacom Expresskey Remote to run Zoom meetings\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8EK6qKgEWc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\nAnd in an easy-to-miss but but valuable tip, he mentions that he can use the ExpressKey to do all of these things without being anywhere near his computer.\u00a0 Might prove useful for those of you who want to try demonstrations or physical writing with a separate webcam in your classes.\u00a0 If you're an educator, use Zoom often, or even just have an ExpressKey and are wondering what some of the alternate uses for it might be, check it out!\n<h1>About Joel<\/h1>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8335 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/Blog-Teaching-Excellence-Joel-Feenstra-2019-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/Blog-Teaching-Excellence-Joel-Feenstra-2019-11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/Blog-Teaching-Excellence-Joel-Feenstra-2019-11-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/02\/Blog-Teaching-Excellence-Joel-Feenstra-2019-11.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Joel Feenstra is a trade instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley, a relatively new Youtuber, and according to the mug on his desk, the \u201cWORLD\u2019S GREATEST ELECTRICIAN.\u201d\u00a0 He lives in Chilliwack, British Columbia.\n\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelfeenstra?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2328],"tags":[131,1028,1029,540,1000,556,846,1030],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elearning","tag-education","tag-expresskey","tag-expresskey-remote","tag-online-classroom","tag-online-education","tag-online-learning","tag-zoom","tag-zoom-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25954694,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/25954694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}