What is AI Companion?Zoom's AI Companion is an opt-in suite of AI tools that enhance the in-meeting and post-meeting experience. The University has made the following AI Companion tools available:
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When using pre-assigned breakout rooms, specific guidelines must be followed to ensure students are routed to their designated Zoom breakout rooms.
Uploading a large video file is cumbersome, and navigating a video recording of a 50-minute (or longer) class is challenging for students. By chunking your lecture, you can create smaller files. This is easy to do in Zoom and will benefit both you and your students.
The Zoom for Canvas Integration allows you to start and join Zoom meetings from within Canvas. This article is for UMN faculty and staff who would like to use Zoom together with Canvas.
When entering into a contract with Zoom, the University's Office of Information Technology ensured full review of the contract terms and conditions and Zoom's privacy policy.
As a meeting host, you can split meeting participants into breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting.
Note: Pre-assigned breakout rooms are an advanced usage of Zoom
Use this feature if you want to let someone else host a meeting or webinar that you have scheduled. This may be helpful if you are out of the office or late to your meeting or webinar.
You do not need a webcam in order to join a Zoom meeting or webinar.
However, without a webcam, you will not be able to enable video. Things you will still be able to do include:
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records and personally identifying information.
Zoom can change the way you teach and interact with learners, by giving you the ability to hold online office hours with learners anywhere in the world on a one-time or recurring basis.
The host key is a 6-digit PIN tied to your Zoom account. It is not meeting-specific. You can use your host key to claim host privileges in the following circumstances:
Zoom has international dial-in numbers available for an extensive and growing list of countries throughout the world. Participants from abroad can join UMN-hosted Zoom meetings or webinars via telephone if they c
The HCC, or Health Care Component, is a group of faculty, students, or staff who work closely with private health information and are subject to a Business Associates Agreement (BAA) with Zoom to ensure Health Insuran
University of Minnesota students, staff, faculty, departmental, and sponsored accounts can livestream from Zoom meetings or webinars to Youtube Live and other streaming services.
You can join a Zoom meeting using a desktop, web browser, or mobile client. When you join a meeting with the desktop or the mobile client; you login to your Zoom account at the same time.
The University of Minnesota's Zoom web conferencing includes a feature that uses automatic transcription to turn the spoken word into text, in real-time.
As the host or co-host in a meeting, you can manage your participants, including muting and unmuting participants to manage background noise and distractions.
If you are hosting a webinar and want attendees to take a survey or be taken to a specific webpage afterward, you can create a survey from within the Zoom Portal, or you can share a survey you create on another p
If you want other meeting attendees to see what you are working on, you can share your screen by selecting the Share Screen button in the Zoom menu bar.
Synchronous class sessions, in which everyone logs in to a web conferencing system at a pre-scheduled time, are one way to create engagement and foster community in your fully online courses.
The Waiting Room feature in Zoom allows the meeting host to control when a participant joins the meeting. Waiting rooms have additional customization features available in the Zoom Portal.
The Zoom for Google Workspace add-on allows you to schedule and join meetings directly from a Google Calendar event. Using the Google Calendar add-on allows you to quickly add a Zoom meeting to any event.
Instructors’ Advice to their PeersA sample of University of Minnesota instructors, including tenured, tenure-track, fixed-term, and P&A staff, shared their experiences and insights about teaching and
Group and section-based permissions give instructors the ability to manage access to meetings and subsequent recordings for certain groups and sections within Canvas courses.
When using Zoom you have the potential to discuss sensitive data, including personal health information (PHI). Zoom is a secure tool, but you must use it appropriately to ensure HIPAA compliance.
Before Your Meeting or WebinarSet up Registration.For public events, set up a Zoom registration page. People with a valid email will receive an email with the link to the event.
This self-help guide will help anyone who presents at, schedules, or supports online meetings and webinars through Zoom. To learn more about using Zoom for online office hours or smaller meetings, check out