Setting Up Zoom to Teach Online

Zoom is a videoconferencing technology that you can use to run online class sessions. Schedule your class session and provide students with a link to join. Present course content, hold live discussions, use breakout rooms for group work, use a shared whiteboard, and more.

There are multiple ways to access Zoom including:

1. 1. RECOMMENDED: Through your Canvas course.
   2. Directly through your web browser.
   3. Downloading the Zoom desktop application.

When using Zoom for your online class sessions, you will:

1. Log into Zoom using your Andrew credentials (via one of the above methods)
2. Set up a Zoom meeting to hold your online class sessions.
   • Select some recommended Zoom meeting settings including:
     • Enable join before host
     • Mute participants upon entry
     • Record the meeting automatically -- select to store the recording to either "In the cloud" – or – "On the local computer".
       • If you record your Zoom class session to the cloud, and if you created your Zoom meetings using the Zoom functionality provided in Canvas, you can provide students with a one-stop shop for finding both their links to upcoming Zoom class meetings and the Zoom recordings as they become available.
       • If you select to download recorded Zoom meetings to your local laptop, you will then upload the file into Canvas (or another CMU-authenticated space like CMU's Box) and provide access to only those students enrolled in the course via Canvas.
       • IMPORTANT NOTE: Share this link with students via your Canvas course so that you are sharing it only with students in your class. Do not share the Zoom link via any publicly accessible site.
3. Give students access to join the Zoom meetings and recordings.
   • Once a Zoom meeting is set up, you will provide the meeting link/details to students.
   • if you created your Zoom meetings using the Zoom functionality provided in Canvas, you can provide students with a one-stop shop for finding both their links to upcoming Zoom class meetings and the Zoom recordings as they become available.
4. Consider how you will Teach using Zoom.
   We've provided a few pedagogical considerations for teaching with Zoom.
5. Run your Zoom class sessions in Zoom and refine over time.

For support teaching with and using Zoom: eberly-assist@andrew.cmu.edu