PIT LibGuides: Online Tools &amp; Resources: Zoom For Faculty

Faculty Zoom Tools and Skills

10 Faculty Zoom Tools and Skills

1. Meeting Controls (Basic)
Zoom webinar showing the basic tools available when hosting a meeting.
2. Managing Participants
As the host in a meeting, you can manage the participants. This means you can mute their audio or video as needed.
3. Screensharing
This feature allows anyone participating in an online Zoom meeting to share their desktop.
4. Automatically Transcribe Cloud Recording
Use the Audio transcript option (under Cloud Recording) to automatically transcribe the audio of a meeting or webinar that you record to the cloud.
5. Waiting Room
The Waiting Room feature allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting. As the meeting host, you can admit attendees one by one or hold all attendees in the waiting room and admit them all at once.
6. Zoom Polls
The polling feature for meetings allows you to create single choice or multiple choice polling questions for your meetings.
7. Break Out Rooms (for small groups)
Breakout Rooms allow you to split your Zoom meeting in up to 50 separate sessions. The meeting host can choose to split the participants of the meeting into these separate sessions automatically or manually, and can switch between sessions at any time.
8. Annotation Tool + Whiteboard
When one screenshares, there is an option to annotate what is being seen on the screen within the meeting. In this way, someone could mark-up or highlight a document, PowerPoint, or image in a live meeting without damaging the original. There is also an iPad White boarding feature available as well for live online instruction.
9. Virtual Backgrounds
The virtual background feature allows you to display an image or video as your background during a Zoom Meeting. Host a meeting and select the carrot " ^ " next to the video icon to open the menu - will see an option for "Virtual Background."
10. Zoom Scheduler
Zoom allows you to give someone permission to schedule Zoom meetings on your behalf.

Teaching Guides for Zoom

Documentation for Meetings and Webinars

Joining and Starting a Meeting

How to Schedule a Meeting from your web browser

How to Schedule a Meeting in Outlook

Scheduling a Meeting

7 Zoom Meeting Tips

Zoom Moodle Integration

How to add a Zoom meeting into your Moodle class

In Moodle, go to the course and section you want to add a Zoom meeting to.
Make sure Editing is turned on and select Add an Activity.
Select Zoom Meeting

Add a Topic for the meeting
Add the Zoom meeting specifics

You can also add the common Moodle settings to the activity as well as a grade.
You will now see the Zoom meeting activity in Moodle
Selecting the icon will initiate the meeting.

Note: Any student selecting the Zoom icon and attempting to enter the Zoom meeting will receive the maximum grade. At this time there is no ability to give a partial grade for participation using the Zoom Activity. That will need to be done using a manual assignment.

Note: The first time Zoom is opened you will be asked to download and install the client.

Zoom Desktop App

View in Settings the settings for your Zoom meetings.

This includes Audio, Video, General (Application, Content Sharing, and Instant Message)
Feedback, Recording, Account Type (Basic, Pro, etc.), and
Stats (Overall, Audio, Video, and Screen Sharing). See Home Screen: Settings for more details.

Select Start without video to start a meeting sharing your desktop or application.
Select Start with video to start a video meeting.
Select Schedule to set up a future meeting.
Select Join to join a meeting that has already started.

Home Screen Dropdown

From the Home Screen drop-down menu, you can:

Set your availability to Available or Busy.
Change your account picture.
Check for updates to Zoom.
Get help using Zoom.
Switch to another Zoom account
Log out or exit Zoom.

Upcoming Meetings

When you select the Meetings icon, you can:

View Upcoming or meetings you have Recorded.
View your Personal Meeting ID (PMI).
Select whether you always want to use your Personal Meeting Identifier (PMI) for instant meetings on the current computer.
For Recurring Meetings, you can:

Start the meeting
Edit the meeting settings.
Schedule the meeting in Outlook or Google Calendar, or, copy the meeting invitation to send via email or message.

For Scheduled Meetings, you can:

Start the meeting
Edit the meeting settings.
Delete the meeting.
Copy the meeting invitation.

Zoom Office Hours

How to use Waiting Rooms to Manage Office Hours & Drop-In Visitor Times
Waiting Rooms is a Zoom Meeting feature that can be used to admit attendees into a pre-meeting room so the host can admit and remove people individually to the main Zoom session. You can find more details in this support article: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/arti...