Regarding Recording Consent

If you are recording a Zoom meeting of any kind, all participants will receive a notice, shown below, that they are being recorded as part of the meeting. They must consent to the recording or they will be removed from the meeting. They will receive this consent notice regardless of if a meeting is set to be recording automatically or if recording is started during the course of the meeting.

Please familiarize your students with this procedure if you plan to record class sessions.

Managing Break-Out Rooms

Hosts and co-hosts of meetings within Zoom can create Break-Out rooms to separate participants into smaller groups for discussions and group work

1. To create Breakout Rooms, click the More ... button at the bottom of the Meeting window after all participants have joined and select "Breakout Rooms"
   
   
   
2. Select how many rooms and participants per room you prefer, then select Create Breakout rooms to start
   
   
   
3. A new dialogue box will pop up with the generated breakout rooms, click Open All Rooms to finalize settings and generate the rooms. Students will receive a notification to join.
   
   
   
4. As a host, a window will appear that shows various rooms you can join and manage
   
   
   
5. To navigate to another room, select the "Breakout Rooms" button in your menu at the bottom of the window
   
   
   
   
   1. Move participants in breakout rooms by hovering over their name in the Breakout Rooms menu and selecting "Move" next to a participant's name
6. To go back to one main session navigate back to the Breakout rooms menu and select "Close All Rooms"
7. To broadcast a message to every room beforehand, click "broadcast message to all"
   
   *If the session is being recorded any room you join will be recorded automatically

Managing Chats with Students

Hosts and co-hosts can set how participants are allowed to use the text-based chat.

There are multiple settings for this, as visible below, that can be accessed from the Zoom Chat "..." button.

The "Participant Can Chat With" settings are as follows:

• No One
  • Participants cannot chat with anyone else, including the host
• Host Only
  • Participants can only chat with the host or co-hosts
• Everyone Publicly
  • Participants can chat with everyone in the meeting, visible to all other participants
• Everyone Publicly and Privately
  • Participants can chat with everyone in the meeting, and may have private chat conversations as well

Managing Student Participation

Host and co-hosts of the meeting can manage the ways in which students are allowed to participate in a meeting. As seen in the screenshot below, a host/co-host can change a settings regarding what participants are allowed to during the meeting.

To highlight some of these options:

• Mute Participants on Entry
  • When checked, new participants will enter the call muted, with no audio broadcasting. This is the recommended setting for large classes and lectures.
• Allow Participants to Unmute Themselves
  • When checked, participants will be able to unmute themselves at will. You can uncheck this option if you do not want any students to be able to broadcast audio. They can still be muted or unmuted by a host/co-host at any time. For large class sizes, it may be beneficial to disable uncheck this option, to prevent students from interrupting the lecture verbally.

Adding Your TA as Co-Host

You can add your TA(s) as co-host of your Zoom meetings. This will allow them to monitor and moderate the meeting's chat, as well as allow them to mute or unmute individuals as necessary. In short, they will have all of the abilities you would as host of the meeting.

You can find instructions on adding another user as a co-host here.

How Students Access Class Sessions

Joining a Zoom Meeting via Canvas

Canvas will automatically place any meetings scheduled with the Zoom integration on the Canvas calendars of your students. Students can then join these class sessions via the calendar whenever they are ready before each class session by clicking the event on their calendar, then clicking the "Click here to join Zoom Meeting" link

Notifying Your Students of Class Sessions

Via Canvas Announcement

To announce your Zoom class sessions to your students, you can utilize Canvas Announcements. When you post an Announcement, students will receive a notification and will be able to view its contents from their Canvas courses. To copy your Zoom meeting information for a meeting you have created in Canvas:

1. Open your course in Canvas

2. Click "Zoom" from the sidebar

3. In the "Upcoming Meetings" tab, click the "Topic" link of the desired meeting

   1. If this is a recurring meeting, you can click the "Topic" of any occurrence

   

4. In the meeting details view, click the "Copy the invitation" link

   

5. Click "Copy Meeting Invitation"

   

6. Paste the copied invitation into your Canvas Announcement.

   1. For information and instructions on creating a Canvas Announcement, please see the Canvas documentation on Announcements.

Students should be able to use the same link to access any scheduled meeting in the series.

Via Canvas Notifications

If your students have set their Canvas Notifications to alert them of Calendar events, they will receive a notification according to their chosen settings.