Zoom: Creating a semester-long meeting

Some instructors like to set up a Zoom meeting in Canvas that can be used throughout the semester for office hours or other students meetings, at any time. This should be a separate meeting from regularly-scheduled class meetings in Zoom, which are set up as a recurring meeting on specific dates, at specific times. [Note:… continue reading

Zoom: trim cloud recordings

If you record your Zoom sessions to the cloud, you can still do some (very basic) editing. You can trim the beginning or the end of the video off, which can be helpful. IMPORTANT: if you allow downloading for the video, the downloaded video will be the whole thing, not the trimmed version. From Zoom… continue reading

Share local Zoom recordings with students

In general, we recommend saving your Zoom recordings to the cloud, which allows the easiest sharing with students. (See our Zoom recommendations for more details.) However, if you do record to your local computer, you’ll need to upload those videos to our Kaltura streaming server so you can share them with your students.

Zoom: configure meetings in Zoom portal

If you are using Zoom for teaching from your Canvas site, you can schedule all class meetings from Canvas and create Polls and Breakout Rooms on the fly, during a meeting. However, if you’d like to set up Polls ahead of time, you’ll need to make some changes from the Rutgers Zoom Portal. To preassign… continue reading