Zoom Video Conferencing

Zoom is a cloud-based video communications app that allows you to set up virtual video and audio conferencing, webinars, live chats, screen-sharing, and other collaborative capabilities.

Requests for faculty Zoom accounts can be sent to helpdesk@southernct.edu in order to have a license provisioned.

Some features of Zoom include:

• Instant or scheduled meetings
• Meeting limitations:
  • Duration: 24 hours
  • Participants: 300
  • Number of meetings: Unlimited
• Screen sharing
• Virtual Backgrounds
• Waiting Rooms – Hosts can enable Waiting Rooms to screen participants and ensure only those invited to the event can join.
• Chat – In-meeting chat supports one-on-one private chat as well as group chat. Hosts can choose who the participants can chat with or disable chat entirely.
• Breakout Rooms – The Breakout Rooms feature allows you to divide your meeting into individual spaces for smaller group collaboration.
• Whiteboarding – When sharing your screen, you may also share a whiteboard – a blank white screen that can be annotated on. Hosts can allow participants to co-annotate as well.

Getting Started with Zoom:

• Zoom Web Access: PDF | VIDEO
• Installing Zoom on university-issued Windows computer: PDF | VIDEO
• Installing Zoom on university-issued Mac: PDF | VIDEO
• Testing your video
• Testing your audio

Scheduling Meetings:

• Scheduling a meeting in Zoom application: PDF | VIDEO
• Scheduling a meeting on Zoom website: PDF | VIDEO
• Scheduling a meeting in Outlook with plug-in
• Scheduling Recurring Meetings
• Allow others to schedule a meeting for you
• More on scheduling a meeting

Hosting Meetings:

• Set a meeting or webinar password
• Meeting Controls
• Personal meeting ID (PMI) and personal link
• Invite new participants during meeting
• Using the waiting room
• Breakout Rooms
• Inviting others to join a meeting

Chat:

• Using in-meeting chat
• Controlling in meeting chat

Screen sharing & whiteboarding:

• Sharing your screen
• Sharing multiple screens
• Allow participants to share their screen
• Sharing a whiteboard
• Using annotation tools on shared screen or whiteboard

Meeting polls & registration:

• Set up meeting registration
• Polling for meetings
• See who attended your meeting or participated in poll

Recording meetings:

• Record meeting locally and Record meeting to cloud
• Manage your cloud recordings

Other Training:

• Using Zoom's closed captioning for accessibility
• Zoom online training support