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Schedule & Use Zoom Meetings from a Canvas Course

Personal rooms are not recommended for online courses. Please follow the steps below to schedule recurring online course sessions through Canvas.

Check that Zoom is Available on the Left Side of Your Course Menu

Note: If you already see Zoom on the left side, skip to: Schedule Secure Course Meetings

  1. Click on Settings
  2. Click on Navigation
  3. Locate Zoom from the list. Click on the three dots and click Enable
  4. Scroll down and click Save

Schedule Secure Course Meetings

Click on Zoom on left-side course navigation menu in your Canvas course

  1. Click on Schedule a New Meeting
  2. Fill out the meeting settings
  3. If this is a recurring meeting, click on Recurring Meeting and enter recurrence frequency information.
  4. Scroll down to check that the box next to Enable Waiting Room is selected
  5. Click Save

By default, the waiting room is configured so users, who are not logged in through their Temple account, will be placed in the waiting room, and they will not be admitted into your meeting until you admit them, if you choose. So, if you have a guest speaker, who is from outside of Temple University, they will be placed into the waiting room and you can allow them to enter the meeting.

Start a Meeting
  1. Click the Zoom link on the left-side Canvas menu
  2. Click the Start button to launch a scheduled meeting

The Security button in Zoom enables easy access to control access to features during your meeting. Click on Security in the meeting control bar to do any of the following:

  • Enable Waiting Room
  • Chose whether to allow participants to share screen, chat, unmute, and/or rename themselves
  • Remove Participant
  • Lock the meeting

Learn more about in-meeting security options

Delete a Scheduled Meeting

Only the meeting creator can delete a meeting that has been created using the Zoom for Canvas tool. To delete a meeting:

  1. On the Upcoming Meeting list, click Delete next to the meeting to be deleted.
  2. Click OK in the pop-up dialog to confirm that the meeting is to be deleted.

The event is removed from the Canvas calendar, and a new conversation notifies course members that the meeting has been deleted.

Record Your Meeting to the Cloud

Start a Recording

After you have started your meeting, click on the Record button along the bottom of the Zoom window and select Record to the Cloud, as shown below. For a video demonstration, view How to record with Zoom

Pause a Recording

To pause a Zoom recording, hover over the bottom of the Zoom window and click on Pause:

To pause a recording when screen-sharing, hover your cursor in the middle of the top of the screen. Then click on More and click Pause Recording.

Stop a Recording

To stop a Zoom recording, hover over the bottom of the Zoom window and click on Stop Recording:

Accessing Recordings

Display Recordings

 

Share a Recording

 

Download a Recording

 

Play a Recording

 

Delete a Recording or Recover a Deleted Recording

 

Remember to Post Recording Reminders to your Class

At the start of each live Zoom session that you are recording, it is important to remind students that you are recording the class in order for them to review later or for classmates, who can not attend class, to view. Please add the following language to your Canvas page and remind students at the beginning of each recorded sessions:

"In an effort to provide equitable access to all students in this class, I will be recording this class session. If anyone has a concern, please feel free to let me know. If at any point during the session, you would like me to pause the recording, please let me know and I am happy to pause the recording."

For more information about Zoom, take a look at our Web Conferencing page

After you have started your meeting, click on the Record button along the bottom of the Zoom window and select Record to the Cloud, as shown below. For a video demonstration, view How to record with Zoom

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