Faculty & Staff
Zoom Conferencing
(Page Last Updated – 04.13.2020)
Zoom has free accounts available for up to 100 participants at a time, but there is a 40-minute time limit. It is recommended, if using Zoom, that you keep live sessions limited to 40 minutes and provide supplementary materials, such as additional video resources, as well as discussion forums and assignments, within Blackboard.
Zoom Tutorials
Zoom offers several Zoom Education Webinar sessions each week with a live host to answer your questions and focus on the following topics:
- How to download Zoom applications and join a Zoom meeting
- How to schedule a meeting and send out invitations
- In-meeting controls and differentiation tools (including the waiting room, share screen, breakout rooms)
They also offer the following short videos to help instructors get up and running with Zoom:
- Zoom 101: Breakout Rooms
- Zoom 101: Polling (In-meeting)
- Zoom 101: Manage Participants (In-depth)
- How to use Breakout Rooms
- Screen Share & Annotation for EDU
- Comprehensive Guide to Educating Through Zoom
- How to use Waiting Rooms to Manage Office Hours & Drop-In Visitor Times
- Comprehensive Guide to Educating Through Zoom