Scheduling Your Class Session in Canvas

To schedule your Zoom lecture in Canvas:

1. Open your course in Canvas

2. From the sidebar, click "Zoom"
3. Click the blue "Schedule a New Meeting" button
4. Fill out the settings for your meeting as desired. You can provide a topic, description, decide the time and duration, and more.
   1. We recommend setting the topic to the course number, e.g., "E 303D Discussion"
   2. Your meeting time and duration should be set to that of your regular class session. In our below example, the class meets for an hour at 12pm.
   3. By selecting "Recurring meeting", you can automatically schedule the event to repeat each week. Use the "Weekly" option and select the days on which your class occurs.
   4. Be sure to uncheck "Require meeting password". This option is not necessary and may complicate the process of joining for your students.
   5. You may wish to check the "Mute participants upon entry" option. This will prevent background noise from students or other participants from being immediately broadcast when they enter the meeting.
   6. Use the "Enable waiting room" option. This will allow the students to join the meeting before the planned start. You can then admit all students to the meeting once the instructor is ready for the class to begin. You can read more about the Waiting Room here.

   7. You can record your class session using the "Record the meeting automatically" option shown in the screenshots below. When recording, use the "In the cloud" option. This will automatically save your Zoom meetings as recordings that you can view in the "Cloud Recordings" tab.

      1. Once recording has stopped, it will be processed by Zoom and automatically added to your Cloud Recordings. These may take some time to process, after which you will receive an email notification stating that they are ready.
         
      2. Please note: You will need to click the "Publish" toggle on these recordings to make them available to your students.
5. When configured to your liking, click "Save" to save your meeting. It will automatically be added to your Canvas calendar, as well as to your students' calendars.

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