

Zoom also includes telephone bridging (not toll free), so you can bring in participants via telephone as well.

Zoom’s web-based conferencing uses high-quality video and audio and is accessible on MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android mobile devices. Zoom, a cloud-based technology, allows faculty, staff, and students to have high-quality interaction in real time from their computers and mobile devices. We encourage you to use Zoom for both instructional and administrative meetings. You can use Glow to generate a list of addresses for your students.Do you have the need for high quality video conferencing and screen/application sharing in your online or blended class? If you are currently using tools like Adobe Connect, Skype, or GoToMeeting for administrative purposes, you might be interested in Zoom.

You can paste the invitation into an email.Never paste the link on a public web page since anyone with the link will be able to join your meeting. You can also copy and paste the Join Meeting link from your Calendar invite into GLOW.See the section at the top on scheduling Zoom meetings. This will automatically put the meeting in their Google Calendar. By using Google Calendar to initiate the session you can invite all of your students by adding them as guests to the Calendar invite.How do I notify my students about my online class sessions? You can also use Williams’ Zoom portal ( ) to schedule recurring meetings and send Google Calendar invites. When you set up your Zoom meeting using Google Calendar, you can set recurring meetings just as you would for recurring appointments in Calendar. This will allow students to ask questions, “mill about”.Ĭan I schedule multiple class meetings at once?

A Zoom session ends instantly at the scheduled end time so you probably want to extend the class meeting time by 15 minutes. However, the meeting does not start until the host signs in. You can set a Zoom meeting to start any time you want. Should I schedule my classes to start and extend a few minutes before my class’ official start and end times? Then as the “host”, faculty start the meeting and have maximum editing and viewing control of their meetings. Yes, but to maintain control of the meeting/event in the Zoom interface we strongly recommend faculty schedule their own Zoom meetings. However, they cannot edit the meeting details prior to the start of the meeting.Ĭan my departmental assistant schedule my class meetings? You can designate others as co-hosts once the meeting starts. Only the person who creates the meeting can edit the meeting details. Zoom offers this guide to scheduling Zoom meetings.
